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better late than never – chipotle kale chips
Perhaps it’s just me – or maybe it’s a wider spread Canadian issue but apparently we haven’t cashed in to the same extent on the kale chip trend which is already practically passé in the US. Never...
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Thai Red Lentil Soup
The following is my February 2013 Fresh Perspective column from Kingston This Week. Winter Nights and Homemade Soup – A Perfect Combination When I stepped out into the dark night to walk my dog on...
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I’m just mad about saffron
Seriously – I am quite annoyed about saffron. I thought I’d embark on a Spanish cooking extravaganza commencing with traditional paella. I needed a few ingredients so I stopped on my home from work at...
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a taste of spring
This is my April column for Kingston This Week. The post is out of synch with my other posts from France because being a newspaper column – it had to be submitted shortly after I arrived in France....
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when everyone else is spring-bound…
Homemade Kahlua Ice Cream and Dark Chocolate Gelato sans Ice Cream Maker This winter, a friend I met in Vermont last year, sent me a CD with a collection of the songs he had written about in his work....
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forget the ones that forgot you – berry infused vodka may help
For all kinds of reasons, I’ve had a couple of humdinger weeks. Stuff has been going wrong. All kinds of stuff. Stuff that normally goes right. Stuff at work. Stuff at home. Even running – I’ve been...
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On Victor Hugo, an overdue idea, and a baked cheese and jalapeño dip
It was Victor Hugo who said, “There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo was all kinds of things. A poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist. A statesman. A human rights...
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fast, simple, tasty – garlic scape pesto
Garlic is one of those rare crops that gives you two harvests. First the scapes, which at least in Ontario, are usually ready to harvested around summer solstice. The actual garlic bulbs are harvested...
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a little Sophocles and some fabulous honey mustard salad dressing
At work this week, I came across a webpage about academic integrity. Across the top of the page was a line by Sophocles – “Rather fail with honour….. “…. than succeed by fraud.” I thought about how...
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the sexy fig undressed – arugula, fig, and blue cheese salad
Fig, fruit of the female mystery, covert and inward, Mediterranean fruit, with your covert nakedness, Where everything happens invisible, flowering and fertilization, and fruiting In the inwardness of...
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Thankful! And a few caramelized pears, squash, and red onions
This is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. For the record – I’d like to say I’m thankful and that I really love Thanksgiving. I like that it’s food and family and gratitude focussed and not commercial....
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trauma, triumph, and pea pesto
When I was a little girl – my mother always bought season tickets for the symphony orchestra and took (dragged) me along. I had to get all dressed up in skirts or dresses and stockings and good shoes...
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beans, bacon, whisky, lard – and New Year’s resolutions
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” So said twentieth century poet and...
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Red boots, Wintergreen, and a warming Spanish stew
This past weekend, I made a wonderful, slow-cooked Spanish stew – a recipe I first discovered during my time volunteering in the kitchen at Wintergreen Studios. For those of you who aren’t familiar...
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Unrequited love and homemade (dairy-free) Baileys
“Do you know what it’s like to love someone without it ever being returned?” I love this line from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. There are few amongst us who don’t know what it’s like to love someone...
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ten books you must throw out immediately…
No-bake, gluten-free granola bars I’m moving house. Downsizing. Moving into a much smaller townhouse after years in a big family home. I have the job of sorting through and packing the thousands of...
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“I don’t have time to talk”
I was going to write a post about manners and general rudeness after one of my new neighbours said to me rather curtly, “I DON’T HAVE TIME TO TALK.” She said this apropos of nothing at all except a...
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chickpea and sweet potato curry
On the way home from Toronto today, I started thinking about what I wanted for dinner. I was longing for something healthy, homemade, and sensible after a few days of over-indulging in hotel and...
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kurt vonnegut and an almond rhubarb cake
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake....
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paleo balls
What’s that you say? Not Paleo? Neither am I. I am interested in food though – all food – and especially healthy, tasty food. And I am interested in food trends even though I sometimes scoff at...
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