What is that delicious smell? Why it is our Easter cookies baking! We have been enjoying Spring break with some Easter activities. Shopping at the Chelsea Markets, re-working our Fairy Garden, and baking and decorating Easter cookies! Maya had two little friends over- Carys and another Maya, on Wednesday and so between building sheet cubby houses […]
I am all about small pleasures, and about finding joy in the little things in life. I am also a fan of doing the same old things just a bit differently sometime…for example…eating breakfast in a cubby house, or having a bubble bath with food dye in it, or making apple sauce at bedtime by candle light…It […]
Aubergine is a meaty vegetable by vegetarian standards, and so it is the perfect choice when you feel like a healthy heavy meal. The rich succulent flavour of the roasted eggplant makes it a favourite meal throughout Winter. We like to eat it with pasta, baby tomatoes, spinach and feta. As you will see, it […]
On our first day in the snow I was overcome with how fresh and delicious the snow was. Then and there I wanted to eat it! Pure white ice so fine and light straight from the heavens. I suggested to the Girls that when we go back inside we have maple ices. This was received […]
Another of our Christmas traditions is to bake Gingerbread men cookies to hang on the Christmas tree. I like to use the Joy of Cooking gingerbread men recipe. It is a basic recipe, nothing complicated. The only thing I do different than suggested, is that I roll out the dough onto a flour dusted cookie […]
Giving a special gift, something thoughtful and handmade means a lot to me. This time of year when you can easily spend a fortune on junk, I am pleased to come up with a cute, useful, educational gift, that has my personal touch! Our Niece Sami, whom I am easily inspired by (you might recall this […]
We have so much to be thankful for, and a day dedicated to giving thanks is special. Our Family worked together to create a ceremonious meal, one of the fundamental ways to celebrate life. We cooked a slow meal of three courses…whole wheat molasses bread rolls, butternut soup, zucchini ricotta cakes with an oven roasted […]
I was delighted to come across Well’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving meal ideas in the NY Time. Take a look at these healthy, hearty veggie dishes. I have plans to cook the Zucchini cakes tomorrow as a part of our Thanksgiving lunch…as well as a few other yummy things! Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Look what I got at the Farmers Market last week…Brussel Sprouts! Have you ever bought them like this? I could not resist this stem of green goodness! Something you may not see every day…
You can’t beat the beet…for vitamins. Beetroots are a rich source of potent antioxidants and nutrients, including magnesium, sodium, potassium and vitamin C, and betaine which is important for cardiovascular health. The beet can be eaten hot or cold, raw or cooked, grated, boiled or roasted, in salads, on sandwiches, in soup. And despite the culinary diversity […]
One of the things that always grew in our Family garden was rhubard. Planted in a line along the starberry patch, it grew all year round. Grandma often made a sweet rhubard sauce that we would eat on it’s own or with home made custard, and sometimes we would have apple and rhubarb pie. I […]
Once a week we have burritos, one version or another depending on the veggies we have, but always something like this: rice, beans, cheese, tomato, avocado and greens. They are easy and healthy and cheap and the Family enjoys them very much. I make a Spanish style rice, open a can of black beans (in […]
While working at Citrus Deli we sold maple walnut pesto. I really enjoyed eating the appropriation of the classic. I completely forgot about this version of pesto until about a year ago when I was making some pesto and I ran out of olive oil. My pesto was still too think to blend properly so […]
On Saturday or Sunday afternoons, we quite often have a big lunch. With my focus this month on eating well, I want to share some of our meals to inspire…here is one of the meals we ate the past weekend. A roasted blue potato salad, heirloom tomatoes with balsamic, hard boiled eggs with a side […]
These scrumptious little yummies have been a favorite weekend breakfast in our home for years. To be exact a little over four years. I know this because after giving Birth to Maya my home birth midwife returned to our house the next morning with a basket of freshly baked muffins. It was just what I […]
The second part of Cam’s Birthday meal request was a cheese cake. This is the third annual cheese cake I have baked him for his Birthday (which is the only times I ever make cheese cakes). Cheese cakes can be a little tricky (to have set, but not over brown or heaven forbid crack!) and […]
We celebrated Cam’s Birthday yesterday with an evening picnic in the back yard. Cam chose what he wanted to eat which was a Soba noodle salad, or as he calls it, “Yummy Noodles”. This is a delicious and healthy salad, that is filling and tasty, so very satisfying. Soba noodles are a Japanese buckwheat and […]
What a joy it was to discover when we moved in, that our garden grows glorious summer fruits! Right here in the middle of Brooklyn we have Figs, plums, Blackberries and Raspberries growing. Watching fruit ripen on a tree is a slow rewarding pleasure….and then the day finally comes that you get to eat it!
With the change of season I find myself remembering forgotten pleasures. One of the beauties of living in the moment of a season is that each season has a bounty of experiences unique to it. I wholeheartedly embrace what is happening in the present of the day. Through the winter I had completely forgotten the […]
It is no secret I love to bake. This weekend I added a new cookie to my repertoire. This recipe I made up myself based on the memory of the taste of my favorite cookies from the Byron Bay Cookie Company. Often I would by one of their Sticky Date and Ginger Cookies from Fundamental […]