It’s Saturday and that means weekend cooking. A bake once more, so consider it a bit more of a time investment but it yields a wonderfully savory pan full of Tex-Mex inspired textures and tastes; with extra chili to spare! The recipe also features kidney beans and celery root which don’t typically get a lot…
Category: Recipes
Bean, Beet and Buckwheat Bake
This recipe has lots of robust and earthy flavours going for it: great when the weather turns cold and you want something warm and homey. It’s also got lots of layers with a multitude of textures to keep you interested from first bite to last. Like the Harvest Tempeh Bake however (and most baked dishes…
Oatmeal Date Cookies (Vegan)
This is basically the recipe for oatmeal and raisin cookies without the raisins and with the cinnamon scaled back a notch. And then enter lots of dates and coconut because that’s what was staring me in the face when I opened the pantry. Besides: is there anything better than cookies and herbal tea for breakfast…
Squash-Carob-Spice Cake
Not being able to decide between Jae Steele’s carob spice cake or zucchini chocolate cake, I took it upon myself to make both simultaneously. There was a fair amount of creative license in the process since when possible, I prefer sourdough cakes in order to make the nutrients from the grains more bio-available (and because…
Three-Squash Soup
One of my co-workers had a particularly productive spaghetti squash harvest and as a result, I’ve been gifted with a couple dozen the beautiful gourds. When you’ve got 21 spaghetti squash hanging about, there’s only so much squash and tomato sauce a person can take. So I’ve been branching out, finding other ways to use…
Harvest Tempeh Bake
This is the recipe you take out when you want to impress for Thanksgiving dinner and take advantage of the late-season harvest. Tasty, savory, 100% comfort food – this bake doesn’t only look pretty! Consider yourself warned however: this is not a recipe you make on a weeknight when you’re pressed for time. It also…
Almond Meal Veggie Pâté
If you make your own strained almond (or other nut) milk, then you know that nut meal multiplies quickly and that the freezer can only hold so much of it before you run out of space for other stuff. I’m therefore eternally looking for things to do with nut mulch since I abhor wasting food….
Arugula-Pistachio Pesto Pasta
Arugula grows like a weed in the garden and there’s only so much salad that one can take. Luckily, it can be used in much the same way as spinach or basil, with an extra peppery punch that is. It can also bulk out pesto and combines beautifully with whatever herbs are fresh and in…
Apple-Sprout Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing
Summer has sprung and the young kale and arugula in the garden are ready for the first of many harvests! Combined with whatever small sprout is ready in the kitchen, this signals the time for one of my favourite salads. The sweet, spicy, crunchy and creamy all explode in the mouth with every bite and…
Cherry Chocolate Macaroons
I’m always looking for new ways to use the strained dregs of my home-made almond milk. This was a really successful kitchen experiment, particularly if you like a chewy macaroon without too much sweetness. The subtle flavour of the almond and coconut really shine while the chocolate and dried cherries add an irresistible decadence. They’re…
Incorporating Herbs into Daily Life: Herbal Soups, Broths and Porridge
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the word for herbal tea and the word for soup are the same: tang. This isn’t surprising since the herbal decoctions of that system of medicine are indeed quite thick, heavy and broth-like when they aren’t being cooked directly into meat or water-based soups or rice porridge – both of which…
Awesome Indian-Style Veggies and Grains
As so often happens, the recipe I ended up making was nothing like the one I’d initially planned on. For starters there isn’t even any pineapple in it and the point of the exercise when I began was to use some of the pineapple that’s ready on the kitchen counter. But it’s a good thing…
Crunchy Cooking 