I am definitely way more of a vegetable girl than a fruit girl, but it's impossible to resist fresh fruit in the midst of summer. Juicy cherries, raspberries, peaches, plums, and grapes picked fresh at the peak of ripeness, just begging to be eaten before they quickly ripen past their prime. You gotta grab it while you can! Most of the local BC ...
Chocolate Almond Butter Raspberry Cups
I'm so happy to be back! It took longer than anticipated, but my new website is finally up and running. Have a look around and check it out! What do you think? In between building a website, working, and summer fun, I also spent some time working on new recipes to share with you. Today I'm sharing my decadent version of chocolate peanut ...
Simple Summer Potato Salad
You think we'd be sick of potatoes by now. We ate them all winter long, and we continue to eat them now in the midst of summer. Yet it's different somehow... new potatoes seem more suited to summer weather and it doesn't feel weird eating them on warm days. We've been eating them room temperature too, which helps to give the dish more of a potato ...
Wild Garlic Mustard & Basil Pesto
Even in the middle of a city, wild edible food is often growing right in our own backyards. Occasionally I accompany my partner on one of his runs through Edmonton's River Valley, him on foot and me on my bike. My eye naturally and constantly scans the forest, I don't know what I'm looking for but I often see it. Insects, birds, plants, animals; I ...
Mustard Greens Stir Fry with Smoked Tempeh, Kimchi & Farro
Who knew there are so many different varieties of mustard greens? When you think about it, I suppose it makes sense because there's tons of varieties of pretty much any vegetable or fruit you can think of. I've tried a few types of mustard greens now; one with frilly leaves, one with flat leaves that were purple on one side, and the one in this ...
Homemade Pickling Spice
The story is a familiar one. I run out of something, I decide to make it myself. This time, it was pickling spice. I used up the last of my store-bought pickling spice in a recipe that didn't turn out. Determined to take another stab at that same recipe, I decided I would make my own pickling spice this time instead of buying it. The spice blend ...
Lucuma & Cinnamon Banana “Ice Cream”
It's official! Summer is on its way, despite the hail and snowstorm we had in Edmonton this week. It's only been 2 days since the snow, and already it's melted and the grass is greener than before. Trees have baby leaves, flowers are popping up, the farmers market is selling seedlings again, and I've resumed biking everywhere. We had our first ...
Salt & Pepper Baked Eggplant Rounds
This winter, I discovered my love for eggplant. If you don't like eggplant because you tried it once and thought it was disgusting, chances are it either wasn't cooked properly, it was a poor quality eggplant, or you were a child whose tastebuds have since changed. If an eggplant is old, like most eggplants from a conventional grocery store ...
