Happy Canada Day!! Well what a mad couple of weeks it’s been! Between the whirlwind of the EU referendum (and the ensuing turmoil it seems to have stirred up on both sides), and the end of the school year, it’s all been a bit of a roller coaster. But today was the last day of […]
Author: Nicki
Red rice and radish greens
The second radish recipe of the great radish adventure has to do with the radish tops rather than the radishes themselves. Red rice and radish greens! Up until recently it would not have occurred to me to use vegetable tops in cooking. Usually those beautiful leafy greens would be disregarded and then swiftly discarded. Then, […]
Radish potato soup
While perusing the local shop’s selection of veggies the other day, I came across the most beautiful radishes. They were bright red-pink with white and tied in bundles with their leafy green tops. So pretty. I was inspired to buy a couple of bundles and see what I could come up with to make the […]
Chimichurri new potatoes
A few years back my big sister Sophie made a potato salad so glorious that it has lingered in my memory and dreams ever since. It was a hot summer day in Vancouver and my Brother-In-Law had barbecued. We sat in the shade of their huge covered deck eating burgers and salad and sipping lemonade. […]
Vegan Ceasar salad with polenta croutons
I love Ceasar salad. I love the fresh romaine lettuce covered in creamy garlic filled dressing and the warming crunch of fresh croutons. It’s delicious. However, there is a caveat to its splendor; for vegetarians, and even more so for vegans, it is right off the menu. Ceasar salad was purportedly invented by Ceasar Cardini, […]
Lemon ginger semolina pudding
This past weekend was glorious. It was a long weekend with both Friday and Monday off, and the weather was spectacular, warm, sunny, and alive. We spent our long weekend at beaches, playgrounds, gardens, having picnics in the sunshine, watching bumblebees buzz among the flours, and birds nest in the cliffs. Perfect! So after a […]
Beremeal flatbread with nettle watercress pesto
Today was a day for some glorious green food. With spring well underway and the garden filled with resplendent life, I was inspired to once again forage some nettles. This time I combined them with watercress to make a pesto that screams springtime. Then I whipped up some flatbread using some beautiful local beremeal, and […]
Popped spelt chocolate bars
Yesterday morning I was experimenting with popping grains again -I go through phases of attempting to pop all of those leftover bits of grain in bags at the back of the cupboard- and ended up with some glorious popped spelt! Spelt is a lovely grain and, as evident by its inclusion in oodles of my […]
Chocolate Brazil nut sourdough
Today’s post is in celebration of Real Bread Week! As you may know from looking at past posts here, I am a huge, huge fan of bread. I love it. I love everything about it, and for me, making bread is a mindful calming thing that fills me with a ridiculous amount of joy, and […]
Tahini lime nettle crisps
My second adventure in foraging (the first being kelp bread!)is in nettles, the resulting recipe some surprisingly delicious tahini lime nettle crisps. The first time that I ever heard about anyone consuming nettles was years ago when a dear friend and I were having an adventure living in a stationary school bus in the middle […]