spinach

Recipe: Spicy Spinach Soup

January 23, 2012

Email. Some days I love it. Some days I hate it. And I was hating it something fierce recently when my computer insisted it had to “rebuild” my inbox and in doing so resent random emails from March 2010. This elicited confused responses from the unintended victims recipients. I spent the weekend cautiously checking email [...]

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Recipe: Jade Soup

October 8, 2011

I’m feeling rather ornery. It’s Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend but the weather is downright balmy and I can’t face the thought of autumn, let alone winter. I don’t care that the leaves are turning glorious colours or the nights are perfect sleeping-weather-cool. I don’t want to make the obligatory pumpkin pie — even if it’s [...]

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Sag Paneer

October 21, 2009

What are those things? Slivered almonds? Potato chips sprinkled a spinach dip? No. Crispy garlic slices atop a quick-cook spinach curry. See. And it’s so good I ate it two days in a row. Spinach is one of those foods that doesn’t photograph well when cooked. It can look slimy or gray. Or slimy and [...]

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Greek Week – Chicken Kopita

June 28, 2008

I’ve no idea if there’s such a thing as chicken kopita. I just made it up. While I love spanikopita, I find I’m hungry shortly afterwards. So I sometimes slip a slice of chicken breast onto the spinach and feta base before wrapping up the phyllo, hence the Anglo-Greco name. I don’t get fancy with [...]

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Pick Your Poison Spanikopita

September 26, 2006

I’m stunned. The ecoli-infected spinach has crossed the US border and is now in Canada. I didn’t think anything got past security these days without a passport and a strip search. Seems green veggies are exempt from this kind of scrutiny. I bet they even get to bring reading materials or knitting. I’m finding the [...]

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