Cooking
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When life hands you garlic…
… make soup. From time to time clients bring me groceries. Often it is a client that is staying for awhile, unsure of whether we offer meals here or not. Some are regular clients, who bring something along with them for me. Thanks to a couple of clients I recently found myself with a couple
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Physalis and roast red pepper salsa
It has been a long time since I've created a dish. Then these bad boys arrived at the Northern (yeah I know go figure). Physalis is actually a generic name (really its the genus) of a bunch of similar fruits, tomatillos are the most familiar. These often go by names like Ground Cherry, Strawberry Tomatillos,
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Nikku – the jerky tales
Okay, the vegans amongst you should probably head over here, instead of reading on. For this is a tale of meat, and almost nothing but. I spent part of last night, and part of today making jerky. Its been awhile but now I'll finally be able to pay off a bet I made with my
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Dreams of a cup of coffee.
One of my favourite coffee experiences involved coffee that was quite unlike any other cup I've had. Every trip that I've made to Cuba included a visit to a 19th century coffee plantation. Isabelica was established at the end of the 18th century by a plantation owner who had fled the slave rebellion in Haiti.
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This ain’t Philadelphia
I'm finding it very difficult to stay away. One thing I've discovered about not blogging is that I enjoy blogging. I also blog in my head all the time. A blizzard in August? Well I'd write it like this. Travis' first day of school? Hasn't happened yet because of a persistent sore throat? But I'd
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Magical Mushrooms
Much to my surprise I received a package in the mail today, that had a couple of plastic bags of dried mushrooms in it. No, not those mushrooms (I just lost half of my readers from the west coast), but dried morels. They are a culinary delight. Growing up in Roblin, every spring would bring
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Cream Pie Reminiscences
I got baking tonight. The urge overtook me. That and Leah and Travis have both been after me to bake an Apple Pie. The thing with baking, is if you’re going to bake one pie, you might as well make more. The kitchen is going to be a mess anyway, and your return on your
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Sorrel in my salad
Lately I’ve gathering Mountain Sorrel (Oxyria digyna) and adding it to my green salads. Mountain Sorrel is one of the (few) plants used in a traditional diet up here. It’s red waxy flours were used to make tea and the leaves eaten. Very high in Vitamin C, it’s leaves are crisp and have quite a
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Mmmm Chocolate
So, I had a hit on the blog today from someone querying "Lilliebelle Farms on YouTube", and I had to follow the link. Jeff, Belle and Lillie Shepherd are friends of mine, who now live in Oregon, but when I met them ran the best B&B in the world, which happened to be in Kauai.