Crunchy Salad
Posted by Renee | Filed under Everyday, Recipes
I recently had a request for a gluten and dairy free recipe. As most of you know by now, bread and cheese are two of my favourite things, but felt that I should expand my horizons and come up with a dish that would accommodate people that have allergies or aversions to these. So, with [...]
Tags: dairy free, recipe, salad, wheat free
Super Soba Sunday
Posted by Renee | Filed under Favorites, Recipes
This past Sunday I woke up with what I refer to as a “food hangover”. Copious amounts of Serrano ham, “pan con tomate“, Manchego cheese and many other culinary delights, still swirled in my enormous 8½ month pregnant belly. The last thing that I even wanted to think about was food, but a persistent 1½ [...]
Tags: Manchego CHeese, recipe, salad, Serrano Ham, Soba Noodles
My Cure for the Sunday Blues
Posted by Renee | Filed under Favorites, Recipes
Nothing makes me happier than a freshly baked muffin, especially a blueberry one! I have the tendency to buy up tons of fresh, local blueberries during the summer so that I can freeze them and pull them out all winter long. On a recent sunny Sunday while feeling blue, I thought that the perfect pick [...]
Tags: blueberry, muffin, recipe
Cool As A “Sea” Cucumber
Posted by Renee | Filed under Everyday, Recipes
A lovely lady named Jennifer Reynolds gave me a few bags of cleaned Sea Cucumber last Sunday when we were both finishing up at the Catch Seafood Festival. Jennifer had spent some of the weekend cooking up this mysterious creature of the sea, and kindly offered me some to take home and experiment with. My [...]
Tags: Catch Seafood Festival, recipe, sea cucumber, seafood
I’ll “Beet” It Outta Ya!
Posted by Renee | Filed under Events, Recipes
I recently did some demonstrations at the Catch Seafood Festival on the Taste Of Nova Scotia Culinary Stage. Here is an adaptation of that recipe witch includes golden, candy cane and bull’s blood beets. Hope you “beet” it up! Beet and Smoked Mackerel Salad 1 candy cane beet; peeled, quartered and thinly sliced 1 golden [...]
Tags: beets, Catch Seafood Festival, recipe, Willy Krauch
Barberry For You, Zereshk For Me
Posted by Renee | Filed under Everyday, Recipes
I have the habit when I go food shopping, to come across ingredients that I’ve never seen or used before. This happened to me a few years back when I was picking up my usual haul from Mid-East Food Centre. I looked into the refrigerator case and saw a bag of jewel-like red berries. I [...]
Tags: barberry, Mid-East Food Centre, recipe, vinaigrette
