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I’ve been having a green juice every day for several days now. My favourite concoction is as follows: . . . . . . Juice Me Green Baby! 1 bunch fresh spinach 1/2 bunch of celery 1/2 bunch of cilantro or parsley 1/2 peeled lemon 1 inch chunk of peeled ginger (or 1/4 tsp powder) [...]
I’m taking a hiatus from raw recipe searching. Too many of them are too elaborate or they contain ingredients that are too expensive or too hard to find. So I’m making a list: What do I not need to give up? What am I doing right so far? Here is the answer: raw fruits of all [...]
I had never made a souffle until just last week. Now I’ve made three. Three different recipes, all savoury, using very different techniques produced three equally good and well-risen souffles; however, each required adjustments as I went, so unfortunately, I have no fool-proof souffle recipe to pass on at this time. What I do have, after [...]
I love eating lasagne, but I hate making it. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve made it – tonight was the fifth – because it’s simply too much work. This recipe is a nice variation; it has the same basic components, but the assembly is much quicker. My herbs are still [...]
It is usually a struggle to get a decent rink made in time for Christmas. We bought a rink kit a few years ago, but without the right kind of weather, it still won’t work. Some years, winter arrives early with a huge dumping of snow in late November, but it’s often just a lot of [...]
This was my first experience making falafels. I didn’t have any tahini, so I made a cucumber-yoghurt sauce, which worked quite well. Falafels 1 cup dried chick peas 1 medium onion, finely chopped 2 tbsp each parsley and cilantro 1 tsp each salt, paprika, cumin, and garlic powder 1/2 tsp chili powder 4-6 tbsp [...]
The choice to reproduce, for those of us fortunate enough to have one, is supported by many terms and conditions. Most of these are assumed from the get-go: less sleep, more mess, less control, more chaos, less sex, more cuddling. The “experts” (many of whom haven’t had children but have written lots of books about [...]
A memorable recipe from one of my ‘forgotten’ cookbooks. It’s a good way to use up leftover mashed potatoes from Christmas dinner, and it’s quick and easy if you’re too partied out to make a “real meal”. Bubble and Squeak 3-4 cups mashed potato 2-3 cups shredded spinach or other greens 1 egg, beaten 1 cup grated [...]
This recipe is an amalgam of three other baked bean recipes I’ve tried. It’s different every time, but it’s always very good. I always use a mix of beans - navy, kidney, black-eyed peas, or anything else that will bring a variety of shape and colour to the dish. I never use sugar; the molasses and maple [...]
Our first was born with what some health professionals may have called a “mild deformity”. He had bruising across one side of his face (fine), a flattened ear (common), and a foot that was bent up to his shin. Hmmm. The midwives weren’t concerned; the baby had simply ‘maxed out’ the space given to him in …
A friend of the family once told me: Having one is like having none. Having two is like having twenty. We have three. With our first, life didn’t really change much. Our neighbours gave us this fabulous sling, so we took him everywhere with us. We took him shopping, we took him to parties, we took [...]
I bought a beautiful bunch of bright red/purple kale a few days ago. It looked pretty on the table. It looked pretty in the fridge too, a trophy vegetable to show the whole family Look at the nutritious foods we like to eat. Another day or two, of course, and it would be making me [...]
A word about baby poop. Like most middle-class North Americans, I was first taught how to change a baby’s diaper using a disposable. The procedure involved removing the wet or dirty diaper, wiping with disposable wipes, and fastening a new diaper on the fresh clean baby. The diaper was then folded up tightly into a [...]
Better late than never. The best time of year to make baby food is late summer or early fall. Peaches, followed by apples and pears, reach their peak at this time, and these flavours are always well received. If you are new to canning, then making baby food is a good way to …
I’ve always made my own burgers from scratch. I’ve been using the same recipe for close to ten years now, and they really are amazing. But, in order to achieve my meat-reduction goal, I’ve been trying out vegetarian alternatives made with nuts, beans, lentils or kasha. The kasha burgers I made several weeks ago, weren’t bad; [...]
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