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Spices for Rice Pilaf
Rice pilaf spices: cinnamon stick, crushed green cardamom pods, whole cloves and bay leaves. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvZaKRztPg] Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions – Clear Day
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Creamy White Bean Soup
This creamy white bean soup is superb in its simplicity, its warm buttery base accented with the pale green astringency of the celery and an undercurrent of bright lemony flavour. Despite its seemingly precarious balance of delicate flavours this soup is extremely fast to assemble and simple to execute; it’s also an ideal soup to…
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Raclette Party!
Last week I had an absolutely sublime 7-day visit with my mom who was visiting from London, Ontario. We had so much effortless fun together – going for long walks, having quiet lunches in nice restaurants, drinking gin and tonics, observing bald eagles, and repainting all of my kitchen cupboards turquoise. On Thursday night I…
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Perfect Roast Chicken
Preparing and roasting a chicken that is falling-off-the-bone tender and loaded with flavour is an easy task that demands only a little preparation and assembly, the rest of the time requires nothing more than patience (which is usually slightly more difficult than the small amount of chopping and arranging that is needed.) The not-so-secret tip…
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Garlicky Lamb and Grape Tomatoes
It’s been a while since my last post due to unforeseen computer problems, more computer problems, etc. but Happy Holidays! to everyone reading this. I hope you all had a chance to relax and recentre over the past few weeks; I had a much-appreciated quiet Christmas in Seattle watching The Adventures of Tintin and eating…