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Creamy Sweet Bell Pepper Soup
And just like that summer has become a distant memory, forever tucked into the backs of our minds throughout winter as a time full of golden light and perpetual warmth. The rain is back in Vancouver, very much needed but selfishly difficult to accept as routine again. The sunny days we have now seem muted…
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Smoked Duck Breast Salad with Peaches and Butter Lettuce
How do the perpetually anxious keep focused on slow days? This particular specimen likes to fantasize about food prep, the blissful combination of mindfulness and mindlessness involved with slicing and dicing up that evening’s meal. These daydreams work like a pendulum, the back and forth motion of my knife sends me into a state of…
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Fresh Fig and Blueberry Frozen Yogurt
It wasn’t until a few years ago that I fell in love with fresh figs, even then the path to get there was full of resistance. In truth, I can’t stand dried figs. Maybe this all stems from childhood, during the wild heyday of Fig Newtons. For some reason my mom refused to buy them…
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Bow Ties with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
It’s been a few weeks now since my obsession with jarred roasted red peppers began. I’ve been finding ways to include them in everything, from soup to salsa to this pasta sauce. I like to add freshly roasted sweet peppers to the jarred variety to punch up the pepper flavour, but there’s something so piquantly…
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Fireworks Party Cheese Plate
Here’s a cheese plate I made for a fireworks party on Saturday night. We watched China compete in the Festival of Light on a rooftop garden and had barbecue sausages and beers to celebrate. Because I worked this Saturday I was late getting home so I assembled half of it the night before in…