Daily Unadventures in Cooking

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I have missed three editions of weekend herb blogging so it is time to get back on track! My windowbox is growing wildly and so this caught my attention because it uses mint. The sauce is really simple and was inspired from a recipe I saw in an Australian Woman’s Weekly book. Of [...]

My new favorite food blog is Kalyn’s Kitchen. She hosts Weekend Herb Blogging to encourage food bloggers to blog about herbs and I have decided to participate for the first time, hats off to Kalyn for a great idea! This week WHB is being hosted by Gabriella from My Life as a Reluctant Housewife.In the [...]