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a winner is announced!
01 JANUARY 2013 – HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I HAVE A WINNER for the win a Taste of Wintergreen competition!!! I’m late doing this – which if you know me – you’ll know is the story of my life. I printed out the...
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in the depths of winter – a vegan winter stew
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus I read this heartbreakingly beautiful Camus quotation in the tagline of somebody’s email last...
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better late than never – chipotle kale chips
Perhaps it’s just me – or maybe it’s a wider spread Canadian issue but apparently we haven’t cashed in to the same extent on the kale chip trend which is already practically passé in the US. Never...
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favourite. biscuits. ever.
Lately I’ve been travelling down memory lane. In my last post – I was remembering my father and my Irish uncle George. This time around it’s my mother-in-law. She was a saint. A beautiful,...
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over-thinking love
“You don’t have to think about love; you either feel it or you don’t.” ~ From Like Water for Chocolate Oh, love. Sigh. If only it were so simple. If only we didn’t have to think about it. If only we...
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On Victor Hugo, an overdue idea, and a baked cheese and jalapeño dip
It was Victor Hugo who said, “There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo was all kinds of things. A poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist. A statesman. A human rights...
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piece of cake
I’m a huge fan of rhubarb. It’s such a useful and tenacious plant – thriving in all sorts of conditions, requiring next to no maintenance, and coming back faithfully year after year. Plant it once and...
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fast, simple, tasty – garlic scape pesto
Garlic is one of those rare crops that gives you two harvests. First the scapes, which at least in Ontario, are usually ready to harvested around summer solstice. The actual garlic bulbs are harvested...
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goat slider burgers with yoghurt mint sauce
I’m an increasingly guilt-ridden meat-eater. Vegetarians and vegans will probably scoff at this – but I try to eat meat responsibly. I buy local meat whenever I can. I think about what I buy. I eat...
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tart wild thing
Last night, just after dusk, I heard a pack of coyotes howling. It’s such a classic call of the wild – first the high-pitched yipping – then the howls. Then the dark silence, as though it never...
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in memory of Ivy – date nut loaf
When I first moved to Australia, years ago, I lived in a funny little flat in Melbourne. My neighbour, Ivy, who was alternately cranky and sweet, used to scare the life out of me with horrifying tales...
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beans, bacon, whisky, lard – and New Year’s resolutions
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” So said twentieth century poet and...
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Red boots, Wintergreen, and a warming Spanish stew
This past weekend, I made a wonderful, slow-cooked Spanish stew – a recipe I first discovered during my time volunteering in the kitchen at Wintergreen Studios. For those of you who aren’t familiar...
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Vietnamese tofu spring rolls
I love this time of year. Not because I love winter – but I love the fact that the days are slowly, steadily getting longer. I like the quiet of winter. The long dark evenings. The clean blanket of...
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Vietnamese tofu spring rolls
I love this time of year. Not because I love winter – but I love the fact that the days are slowly, steadily getting longer. I like the quiet of winter. The long dark evenings. The clean blanket of...
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