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Recipe: Green Bean Fries

November 23, 2010

There is something subversively satisfying about finding a fried vegetable recipe in a healthy eating book. I was thumbing through Clean Start: Inspiring You to Eat Clean and Live Well with 100 New Clean Food Recipes by Terry Walters. Hidden somewhere between the longest title on record and the index chock full of healthy tempeh, [...]

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Recipe: Plum and Orange Sorbet

October 20, 2010

The pears went bad so I called on the plums. The plums started to go so I… reached for the ice cream maker. I could have made preserves, but I had too few plums to make jam worthwhile. The fruit would have slipped from iffy to unusable by the time I had found the jars, [...]

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Recipe: Smoky Tomato Chickpea Soup

October 8, 2010

One of the perks for working with Cuisine Canada on the upcoming Canadian Culinary Book Awards is that you actually look forward to the planning sessions since they tend to be potluck. One of the drawbacks? Go to enough meetings and you’ll get fat. A potluck with serious foodies often means serious calories. Fortunately, there [...]

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Spicy Cauliflower with Cilantro Dressing

August 25, 2010

A local Indian restaurant makes an addictive appetizer — bite-sized vegetables dipped in a spicy chickpea batter, deep fried and served with a cilantro dipping sauce. Whenever Andrew and I dine there, I pluck all the cauliflower florets from the plate and eat them myself. Since he doesn’t like cauliflower, it’s a pretty good system. [...]

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Salted Watermelon Sorbet

July 15, 2010

Sometimes simple is best. No gooey sauces. No sugary sprinkles. No toasted flakes of anything. Sometimes all you need is a tiny pinch of salt. Last week, over Watermelon Agua Fresca, Andrew told me that as a child one of his favourite memories was eating big slices of watermelon sprinkled with salt. As a kid, [...]

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Watermelon Agua Fresca

July 5, 2010

Those who know me will be shocked to learn I have joined a gym. Yup. Me. In a gym. I have yet to receive confirmation, but somewhere out there a fat pink pig is soaring high above a frozen section of Hades and giggling. Thanks to my older sister’s encouragement, I now have a bright [...]

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Dried Apple Breakfast Bars

February 24, 2010

Winter in Ontario. It either comes in cloudy grey lined with depressing slush or dazzling blue edged with blinding white snow. But there’s a new colour this season. Red.Very fitting for a Canadian-grown fruit. These Red Prince apples are a new variety grown just a couple hours away from me — in ski country no [...]

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Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

February 19, 2010

EJSGHPK2KBS4 Huh? What is that gobbledy-gook in the previous line? Apparently, it’s the high-tech way one “claims” their blog on Technorati. For some reason it refuses to recognize my new location or update my feed. Huh? Technorati. It’s is a search engine for blogs. According to Wikipedia, the name Technorati is “a blend of the [...]

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Swiss Chard with Raisins and Pine Nuts

February 18, 2010

I fall easily into a vegetable rut. If it weren’t for this blog I’d happily get my daily quota of greens from string beans, broccoli and mesclun mix salad. I once ate Basil and Walnut Green Beans every night for a week. When I stopped I swear, the stock for California walnuts plummeted. But I [...]

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How to Roast Vegetables

February 4, 2010

I got a bit carried away. I was experimenting with roasted vegetables for today’s CTV appearance and ended up making five variations. I just couldn’t make up my mind which version I liked best, so I made them all. Well, almost all. Having recently posted about Herb-Roasted Potatoes I felt I could skip this one [...]

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Vegetable Tagine

January 28, 2010

In the comment section recently, Leslie asked about eggplant. She’s tired of it drowned in tomato sauce or swimming in oil. Joe Girard of Rouxbe Online Cooking School provided some great answers, but even his professional advice didn’t get me off the hook. I’d promised Leslie I’d look into other ways of cooking it, and [...]

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