Daily Unadventures in Cooking

How pretty is this hummus recipe which uses fresh spinach? A great way to get a bit more greens in your diet and to use up that spinach which is sitting in your fridge.

An amazing way to fancy up a cheese appetizer. Get some pears nice and soft, then dress them up with sharp balsamic and fresh oregano before dumping the delicious mixture over some warm brie or Camembert.

Tangy and garlicky, this Greek tzatziki dip recipe will have you reaching for warm pita bread.

Baba Ganoush is a delicious and healthy middle eastern eggplant dip or side to a fabulous meal of falafel, hummus, tabouli and pita.

These easy little holiday appetizers are very popular under the title Bisquick Sausage Balls. I was on twitter last week when Katie Lee Joel twittered about them being a favorite of hers and I thought they would be a great quick fix. I find it so easy to make sweets at the holidays, but am [...]

Fresh shelling, or broad beans, are in season from mid to late summer every year. I was able to pick up this bunch fresh from the farmers market, for no other reason then to try something new.

Do you have a dish you whip up when you know people are coming over for a drink at the last minute? Or, not even the last minute, but maybe you aren’t very organized? For me, it is always a fancy hummus or dip. With a well stocked pantry you can create a delicious [...]

This month the Darings Bakers had their first ever vegan challenge and it was a really fun one! The cracker bread was cheap and easy to make and made just enough for two. Plus I had never made crackers before. I covered mine with rows of cumin, salt, and rosemary and they went [...]

Yesterday was a near perfect day. So simple but oh so good. In the morning we went to the local farmers market and picked up some tomatoes, beets, squash and fennel as well as some local short ribs and a beef roast. Then we lunched in the sun with beers and burgers. After [...]

It’s too hot to cook this, it really is, but it was ohh so good anyways. I have never made a roesti before let alone a beet one but I was flipping through a Mark Bittman cookbook, which I picked up at a garage sale, when I saw the idea for a Beet [...]

I seem to have fallen off the planet a bit in the last week or so, I haven’t been cooking much at all and our kitchen is a disaster which makes me want to cook even less. I actually made this last weekend and am just getting around to posting it now. Shameful.
One of the [...]

I really was prepared to not like this hummus, or at least be unimpressed by it. This recipe comes from Cook’s Illustrated and much like a lot of their recipes makes something naturally easy much harder. I chose to make it in the first place because I bought this new camera and wanted to [...]

On girls nights one of our habits is to make dip and eat at least one loaf of bread with it. Usually the dip is made by S, starts with a log of goat cheese and is fabulously sinful. Since we are all on diets for holiday time tropical vacations I tried to change it [...]

My friend Sarah is extremely adept at her dips. She throws something together without measuring and it is always super fantastic. I watched her do it this past weekend using only what was available and it was pretty impressive. I would never have put a can of mixed beans in, but it [...]

I am back from vacation, and what a great week it was. I really got the chance to appreciate some of the fabulous food items that come out of British Columbia. It is with this inspiration that I post tonight’s recipe featuring BC spot prawns, wild and fresh from the waters off of [...]

A delicious recipe for Jamaican patties from scratch. A satisfying homemade snack from the freezer.

I whipped this up a few months ago for a dinner party out of what I had in the fridge and it was a huge success. So this time I thought I would make it on purpose as my entry to this week’s Weekend Herb Blogging. This week it is being hosted by [...]

Its been awhile since I have participated in Weekend Herb blogging, so I have decided to ease into it with something easy but rewarding. This hummus features basil and was inspired by a rather expensive version I bought at the grocery store. What makes this dip a hummus is that it is has [...]

These salad rolls look far more challenging then they actually are but the payoff is great. You can vary what you put in them but the basics start with vermicelli rice noodles and green onion, cilantro is also really nice. Also the larger sized rice paper makes it way easier to get them tightly [...]

Another thing I discovered an addiction to while working in restaurants – tapenade. I am a fan of both the green and black olive tapenade. Basically just a rich salty spread to have on bread or crackers or even sandwiches.
For my Mum’s birthday, struck with indecision I made both. You can used canned [...]