Daily Unadventures in Cooking

A ratatouille recipe where the vegetables are layered and baked for a company ready, seasonal side dish.

A fresh summer salad with southwest flavours prepared entirely on the grill. Can be served warm or cold.

Did you know you that grilling radicchio will soften it’s bitterness and enhance it’s sweetness?

A savoury way to honour the fresh peaches currently in season, their sweetness is a lovely contrast to some gooey Gorgonzola cheese.

A perfectly light and summery salad recipe featuring lemon, feta and fresh dill.

Impress your guests with this twist on a caprese salad, as corlourful and flavourful as the original.

Is your garden overgrown with sage? Try this lovely fresh green walnut and sage pesto recipe.

A simple summer salad with peppery fresh arugula and tart strawberries. Make it quick while they are still in season!

A different Green Cabbage Recipe – baked slow and low with thyme, onions and cream.

Looking for a healthy alternative to twice-baked potatoes? Try these sweet and tangy twice-baked sweet potatoes.

Dandelion greens are slightly more bitter than arugula and delicious when paired with the sweet grilled pear in this salad with goat cheese.

Capers are like the vegetarian’s bacon. Like olives, they punch salt into any dish they are added to — perfect for a simple green salad.

Winter squash is lovely and sweet when roasted, a perfect addition to this summer salad recipe.

I generally don’t like tartar sauce because it is so sweet, but this healthy tartar sauce recipe is tangy without being cloying.

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.

Grilled asparagus is lovely with Asian sesame oil which adds a nutty, smokey flavor to each asparagus spear.

This salad celebrates the very best of Spring: the first crop of greens from my garden, and a beautiful sunny evening which inspired me to use the grill in creative ways — like toasting nuts.

Asparagus is in season, and with it, enters my favorite and easiest vegetable side dish — roasted asparagus.

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