Tag Archives: summer

Smashed Summer Potatoes

Can you tell it was a market day? Yum. I’m still trying to figure out what is my favourite summer food. One might guess asparagus, berries, tomatoes or corn… but then there is the humble potato. Nothing screams summer dinner to me more than every including a cob of fresh corn, green beans and early...

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Tabbouleh

I’m not quite sure what it is with grains and rice that, at least whenever I make them, there is always a scoop left over. This scoop, of course, is too big to toss and just big enough not to waste it. Recently I’ve been revisiting quinoa. I love it! Soft but chewy, a little...

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Grilled Vegetable Strudel

I had been gearing up to post about what I call Market Mystery. This is either the new or unexpected produce that turns up at the market or in your CSA box that you would never dream of buying out of your regular habits. Turns out, this event coincided perfectly when I invited my neighbour...

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Aunt Martha’s Bean Salad

So she’s not my aunt, but she is someone’s. Growing up I would never even dare taste a bean salad let alone make one. However, starving while out at the beach one day, I was cornered with this, my only sustenance and can I say that since that moment I was not only a convert...

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