Daily Unadventures in Cooking

Peanut Sauce is easy enough to buy bottled, but why not make your own? This recipe is really simple and you may just find everything you need in your cupboard.

Healthier than potatoes, this twice-baked butternut squash recipe is a side dish with a cute presentation for your next party. Though sweet, it is also tangy from the sour cream and speckled with green onions and parsley.

A recipe for roasted cauliflower which is light and easy to make. The natural sugars caramelize to produce a sweet and nutty taste which is enhanced by the lemon and salt.

Comfort food comes in many edible shapes in sizes. Sometimes it is pasta, frequently it is risotto, and if I am rushed for time soup is great.  It also can, and should, be delivered as mashed root vegetables with fresh herbs and cheese.

Eat your Peas! I was told as a child. You see, I really didn’t like cooked peas until very recently. I will eat raw peas until I am ill, but cooked peas? No thanks. But now I feel like I have been missing out, there is something about this preparation of cooked peas where [...]

I have made Brussels Sprouts with bacon before and really liked it. But this time I wanted to roast the Brussels to give them that extra flavour and crispy texture I love. Brussels sprouts and bacon are natural friends and adding the walnuts gives this dish a nice crunchy texture contrast.  This would be [...]

This may be my last tomatillo recipe of the season and I think it may be the most delicious one so far. Sorry if you are sick of them already, but since I just discovered them I am enamored. Plus I have been gifted with a huge bounty of them from J’s Dads garden. [...]

I received the largest zucchini I think I have ever seen before as a gift from J’s family. At least I think it was a gift, maybe it was a challenge? I immediately thought of ratatouille, but I wanted to do something different (I will probably still make ratatouille with what is left [...]

As the leaves turn rusty orange and we all go off to work in the dark, lovely winter squashes start appearing at the farmers markets. Winter squash like acorns, butternuts, buttercups, and kabochas are lovely in soups, pastas, stews and can be used in almost any recipe. In fact they are so nice in [...]

This is an easy method for making polenta and is adapted from a Marcella Hazan recipe.

This spaghetti squash recipe combines cooked spaghetti squash with chives, sour cream and Romano cheese and then bakes it to make a delicious and different recipe.

Quinoa is high in protein, easy to digest, high in fiber and cooks in the time of white rice. But the real reason I decided to finally cook it? Because it is so damn pretty, especially red quinoa. I love to try new things so when I was thinking about what to cook last [...]

Raw food intrigues me. It seems to be becoming more and more popular and some of the recipes look really good. Like raw tacos made with nuts and wrapped up in lettuce. Doesn’t that sound good? Eventually I will have to experiment with an actual raw food recipe but for now, here is a [...]

We get an organic vegetable delivery every two weeks and we get a lot of potatoes. The problem is that we don’t seem to eat enough potatoes and they are the only thing that ever goes to waste. Well, I have decided that this recipe is the solution for not wasting potatoes.

When I made the Miso Eggplant last week I actually roasted two whole eggplants at once so that I would have enough for the next night when I knew I would be working late. That said I couldn’t serve it with the same Miso sauce – that would’ve been dull. So I opened up [...]

It is always fun to rediscover a cookbook and learn something. On Sunday I rediscovered the Moosewood cookbook and finally succeeded to cook eggplant. I love eggplant but when I have tried to make it it usually comes out too mushy or tough. This method is extremely easy and then you can [...]

I know I just made squash the other day, but it is just so gorgeous this time of year I can’t help myself it is too good. This is actually a totally accidental recipe. I had the cut chives and minced ginger left on the cutting board from making a seared tuna [...]

Rice pilaf’s are quick to make, cheap and really tasty, I can’t believe this is the first time I have ever made one. It is also a great way to use up the dregs in the vegetable drawer. Like a frittata or a casserole a pilaf is a flexible dish that lends itself [...]

The title of this post leaves little to the imagination. The idea behind this is to literally wrap up a bunch of potatoes in some aluminum foil and stick them on the bbq so they cook, no fuss no muss, with other things. You could probably do this quite well in a grill tray but [...]

This is a side dish I threw together to use up a zucchini that came in this week’s organic surprise box. I am all into sun-dried tomatoes after my last success with the cornetti so I used some of the oil from that to saute the zucchini.We are actually on vacation out in BC’s [...]