Daily Unadventures in Cooking

This is perhaps the quickest appetizer ever. The tuna grills for only a minute to keep it nice and rare.

I loved fish sticks as a kid but can’t bear the thought of frozen processed fish fingers as an adult. So I decided to create a satisfying and healthy equvialent that is still fun finger food.

A simple broiled salmon recipe with spinach and feta which takes less that fifteen minutes. The salty feta and spinach is balanced well with the strong flavours of the salmon and the freshness of the lemon.

Fall is lovely but it can bring on really heavy stewy dishes. If you need a break try this light salmon dish using the currently in season leeks. Leeks are lovely and underrated. They turn really sweet when sauteed and are a nice contrast in texture to the crispy salmon.

Fennel and orange is a classic combination, which until now, I never had the opportunity to try. When I saw more beautiful fresh fennel at the farmers market I knew it was time. Frequently, the combination is raw fennel and raw oranges in a salad. However, because I much prefer fennel cooked I thought it [...]

This recipe was originally published in late May 2007 and is a repost from the archives. I will be back next week with some all new recipes. Thanks! I have never successfully grilled fish before. So I am seeing this as a bit of a mini victory and the first strike against the evil forces [...]

When I walked into the grocery store on Friday I was thinking about making shrimp from an Ezra Pound Cake recipe. However, the fish counter had Rockfish on special, like a really cheap special. It is local and I had never made it before so I was quickly sold. Apparently Rockfish is also known as [...]

A delicious, and very Vancouver recipe – Miso Glazed Sablefish.

I’m back! This weekend was a whirlwind but I think I am finally going to be able to start posting again. Yesterday we delivered the project I have been working on for the last few months and work will finally be going back to normal until after Christmas. I just can’t seem to cook anything [...]

This is what you should make if you find a piece of salmon in the back of your fridge that you didn’t label and are not so sure about. It is sad and past it’s sashimi prime but you don’t want to throw it away so disguise that sucker in some soup and it will [...]

Just a quick post of tonight’s dinner since I am in the middle of watching the Heroes premiere. (Did they SERIOUSLY have an hour countdown show? Seriously? Obviously we didn’t watch it but still.) Tonight’s dinner was planned in that I knew what I was going to make this morning and shopped accordingly, but inspired [...]

Yeah you heard me. Continuing my healthy kick I was inspired by a tilapia in parchment recipe made over at KathEats and her use of her stapler to make it. I don’t know how I went so long without cooking this sort of a meal. I think one of the first things I ever really [...]

More of what happens when you must defrost your freezer. This isn’t exactly a Fall\Winter meal but it will do in a pinch and it worked out quite well as a nice simple quick way to prepare halibut. The fresh oregano was lovely and really made a difference – however I bet a lot of [...]

Cooking with fermented black beans has been on my list some time while and I have finally gotten around to it. My roommate in university used to make a black bean chicken that had real potential so I have been hoping to relive it a bit. I was able to find the beans in my [...]

I am extremely lucky because J went on a very manly fishing trip with his family the other weekend and our freezer is now stocked with all manor of wild salmon and halibut. So this is my first, no doubt of many, preparations of salmon. I actually did this with a white spring salmon fillet [...]

A quick pasta dinner, trying to to keep it light because of the heat but still bordering on comfort food. Plus I managed to get it together to post for Presto Pasta over at Once Upon a Feast. This isn’t from a cookbook but is just a combination of two of the things I was [...]

I had some leftover fish I had to use tonight while it was still good so I threw this together with some beautiful looking local cherry tomatoes. This is the first meal I have cooked on a weeknight in quite awhile, because our apartment is just so hot. Plus, foolishly this is a hot meal [...]

I have this theory that eating fish makes you smart. Anyone who knows me knows that at any given time I have some theory on the go about eating or drinking. For example in college there was the shots theory (if sugar is what makes you hungover then vodka shots are the way to go, [...]

Wow, it feels good to be sitting here and writing on my iMac again! How I have missed her sleek white exterior and huge bright screen. It turned out that after they fixed the motherboard one of the fans had gone on her too, so she had some serious surgery and I had to wait [...]

I had some nice wild sockeye in the freezer from the fall which was the inspiration for this dish. The recipe comes from the Barefoot Contessa cookbook, though I used green onions rather then red onions. I prefer the more muted green onion for flavour but you do lose out on the beautiful colour contrasts [...]