Daily Unadventures in Cooking

An easy shrimp appetizer recipe, marinated in ginger, lime and cilantro and quickly grilled.

Shrimp sauteed in garlic butter is really easy to make and guaranteed to please a crowd. When my local fisherman showed up again I knew I wanted to do another simple shrimp preparation to enhance the delicate sweet flavour of the fresh seafood. If your shrimp or prawns are already cleaned and shelled you can [...]

Shrimp with white wine and garlic is always a popular combination, but when you add in the local tomatoes and baby leeks it brings a beautiful sweetness to this classic dish.

We love our fresh Dungeness crab here on the west coast. At the cabin, we have a fish monger on a boat in the harbor on summer Saturdays, and we take advantage as much as possible by buying the live crabs in the morning and having them for dinner that night. We always, at least [...]

Scroll down for the recipe – a simple marinade to enhance the natural flavour of shrimp or prawns, but first an open letter to the fisherman I bought mine seafood from. Dear Mr. Fisherman Please accept my apologies, when I bought these prawns off your boat I was skeptical about what I was buying. I [...]

The salty feta is such a great contrast to the sweetness of the shrimp in this tomato based pasta recipe.

My vacation is over. As crushing as that is at least I have had some good fun during it. We even got up early (well this morning to go for a hike before we had to leave the island. A perfect way to end our vacation. As I have to go back to work tomorrow [...]

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 lunch it [...]

There is a reason I am not a doctor, or a firefighter or an air traffic controller, because in a high stress situation I have been known to panic. Take my teeny weeny grease fire the other night. I put olive oil into a pan that was a little too hot and it promptly burst [...]

I have been overly tired and I have had a bit of a tickle in my throat the last few days so it was time to yank some of my hearty meat broth from the depths of the freezer and put it to work. I think the reason I am so tired is because of [...]

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 the BC [...]

All day Sunday Food Network Canada was running a marathon of Kylie Kwong Simply Magic episodes. Before this I had only ever caught 30 seconds at a time but was never very excited. However I was doing chores and it was on in the background and I found it very inspiring. I didn’t really find [...]

On the way back from the island today I was poking around in MacGourmet and watching videos to kill time. It is usually a spectacular ride but it was so foggy you couldn’t see anything and so I had 3 hours to kill. I have been using MacGourmet for several months now and have just [...]

An easy recipe to cook a cleaned Dungeness crab.

This is a bit of a creation on my part, I was craving an asian-style broth with noodles and prawns so I basically flavoured the broth with what I was able to find at the regular grocery store and some of my homemade chicken stock. another good way to make chicken soup for the sickies. [...]