Daily Unadventures in Cooking

Pea shoots are the young stems of snow pea plants which have been harvested before they flower and produce pea pods. They are also my new obsession since they are trivial to cook, good for you and have a flavour unique to other cooked greens.

If you are looking for an easy and healthy recipe to make ahead for a potluck, dinner party or barbecue, try this cold asparagus salad.

Parsnip Fries. Strange and Unusual but oh so good! Baked rather than fried.

Creamy leeks baked together with some crunchy croutons for texture and a little cream to make them extra tender.

A new squash recipe which is extremely flexible, Italian inspired, and easy to make-ahead.

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. After not having cooked anything in a week and not really having [...]

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 the [...]

These Brussels Sprouts are roasted with walnuts until nice and crispy then tossed with salty bacon and balsamic vinegar. Bacon makes anyone a lover of Brussels.

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. Waste [...]

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 of the [...]

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 things [...]

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 Friday [...]

A fresh and raw broccoli salad with cumin and cilantro.

Don’t let your potatoes wile away in your cupboard until soft and sprouted like me, make this comforting potato kugel recipe. Trivial with a food processor.

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 my [...]