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| Pearl | Wed 1:17 am (13 hours ago) |
We made some whole wheat pizza dough, some marinaded red onion and bell pepper, lots of spiral cut zucchini and some feta. Oregano, thyme and a light drizzle of olive oil. Smelled very good. Tasted even better.
Double chocolate cheesecake from Memories Restaurant.
And peach juice from South Africa. Which seems unreasonable somehow since we live so close to the peach groves of Niagara. And here’s an interesting video on local foods trends of food production ...
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Tofu with hot sauce at The Green Papaya Thai restaurant last night. Lovely ambiance and out with great people. [Other pics were blurry.]
Chocolate cheesecake topped with mandarin oranges, whipped cream and birthday candle. Today’s my 38th BD.
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Spinach, egg noodles and mixed veggies.
Marjoram on zucchini, coffee mushrooms and button mushrooms, pecans and seitan cooked in butter and whisky. The seitan sucked up the flavours, especially the marjoram. A mushroomy white sauce on the side cooked with the same. Topped with more pecans.
By egg noodles I mean no yolk ones.
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Sweet red pepper and sweet potato soup at Fiddleheads Bars and Grill, Perth
A portabella mushroom and grilled veggie wrap with mixed greens with a mustard-maple syrup vinaigrette.
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Boiled cauliflower, green salad of spinach, arugula, and radicchio. The hot greens are baby bok choy, chard, with feta and ginger (and button mushrooms and butter out of sight moderate the bitterness factor).
Light moves fast and I’m not quite its speed. I would have liked a better framed shot, but it’s what I got.
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Boiled cauliflower, green salad of spinach, arugula, and radicchio. The hot greens are baby bok choy, chard, with feta and ginger (and button mushrooms and butter out of sight moderate the bitterness factor).
Light moves fast and I’m not quite its speed. I would have liked a better framed shot, but it’s what I got.
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A twist from this African Peanut Soup
1 sweet potato
4 large carrots
1 bottle vodka cream tomato sauce
1/2 red onion chopped
1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2-3/4 tsp ground coriander
1/2 tsp cocoa
1/2 cup uncooked rice (parboiled basmati)
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
1/4 cup unsalted cashews (a few reserved for garnish)...
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I got some mushrooms: white button, coffee, white oyster mushrooms and dried chanterelle.
Take 1 was good. Some thyme, butter, olive oil and water mixed with chopped button mushrooms, oyster mushrooms and cubes of semi firm tofu. The tofu absorbed the flavour and had a similar texture. Served here on cous cous with belgian endive with cream cheese, capers and tomatoes.
Take 2 involved dried mushrooms:
Fresh mushrooms:...
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Pickles, cheddar, mixed veggies and potatoes
Mom asks from kitchen: how long does it take vegetables to cook?
I ask: what kind?
She answers: Green Giant.
Summer or winter, fruit or vegetables come from a can.
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Seitan with a little horseradish (pony radish), spinach, ancient mustard, on sesame seed bagel.
Seitan in blood orange marinade with lime, hot pepper flakes and brown sugar, left to marinade a few hours.
Looking beastly, isn’t it?...
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Sorely underpresenting the banquet with photos in this case of supper at Michèle’s. Wonderful taste and company for the rice, curry sauce with apples, peppers and other veggies, bocconcini salad.
Hazelnut cake, and ladies fingers berry cream cake and chocolate-veggie-date cake.
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Baked brussels sprouts, mango salsa, cous cous, peas and curried eggplant.
A cup and a half of onion, mixed with turmeric and American saffron.
2 tablespoons of black sesame seeds were cooked a few minutes in butter until they began to pop. Stirring the chopped onions, turmeric and cumin into the seeds, leaving out ...
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Dried wasabi peas beside carrot-coconut soup topped with some daal soup at Peace Garden. Wababi peas are 2 or 3 normal taste then another super hot. Randomly timed tastefulness gongs.
I can’t show the music or play the water fountain but for ambiance there were these:
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Goat cheese frittatas for breakfast.
Bread was good. Frittata was tasty. Service great but the greens were the tops.
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Whole wheat pizza topped with crumbles of cheddar and feta. Pizza parlour pizzas have the slap of stringy cheese covering that makes a pocket of boiling sauce that burns and slops. No need for sauce or that much cheese if any.
Rolling the dough.
Sundried tomatoes, thyme, shallots, thin-sliced mushrooms…could braid the dough into a sandwich at this point....
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A wrap with sliced scallion, cooked mushroom, baby spinach on cream cheese coated multigrain fajitas.
The wrap with kale with dressing and quick ratatouille.
134 recipes for zucchini and/or eggplant had to have something. quickie ratatouille in under an hour, sped up with microwave so less particles of vaporized oil in the air. I used maybe 1 1/2 tablespoons instead of 1/4 cup. ...
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Celery, cucumber, red delicious apple marinated in apple cider vinegar, olive oil with walnuts, sprinkle of ground kelp and chopped parsley.
The regular dill potato bread but with basil and Herbes de Provence.
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Let’s see…radishes or brussels sprouts? Brussels sprout or radishes?
(Toss) Maybe dig less deep in the fridge, huh?
Cheddar, hummus, marinades tofu on mustard rye bread.
I was skeptical about adding 2 tablespoons of mustard for a one pound loaf but it didn’t taste as strongly ...
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Rye bread, topped with hummus and cheddar and grilled. Onions and curry, mixed with spinach and feta and spelt linguine topped with lemon dijon mock chicken breasts by Gardein (although the brand name from all the text isn’t obvious. I thought it was “it’s all good” brand).
Sidenote, this Montreal blogger is redoing Marguerite Patten 1967 recipe cards a la Julie & Julia but at a more sustainable pace.
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Today’s special: mushroom walnut burger on mutligrain bun with mushroom gravy and side salad.
Ah, that resets how a mushroom sauce is supposed to be in thickness and flavour.
Their usual skill of well-prepared. Peace Garden remains my favorite place. The menu is entirely friendly, with vegetarian and vegan, the food is invitingly presented, the staff is warm and graceful. The food is always balanced flavours, not oversugared, oversalted nor overfattened. The ambiance is pleasant in sight, sound and scent. The food — it always ...
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Basmati, a marinaded veggie salad in virgin olive oil and apple cider vinegar (no sugar or celery seed added here and oil cut way back to a drizzle). A daal and a sort of palak paneer variation but dairy-free and less spicy in version by Ken Charney. The palak is close to the recipe there on p. 128-9
Palak:
1 1/2 Tbsp olive oil
1/2 large onion
Cook 3-5 minutes until ...
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Unsalted popcorn with nutritional yeast and Big Bang Theory. First “meal” of the day.
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Death by chocolate doesn’t seem so much hyperbolic. 99% cocoa in that ganache. Rich. Heart-race and dizzy at two pieces. Not saying I didn’t enjoy…
Dill bread with tomato and avocado.
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Meal at home with re-zapped tea biscuits.
A mix of farmed wild mushrooms (oyster, crimini and shiitake) cooked with kelp, marjoram and oregano. The mushrooms were over the linguine with some pink peppercorns. The linguine looked white until the feta was added. And in the back, some peas.
I had one of these “passion flakies” every day for ...
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6 egg whites
5 oz semisweet and/or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup unsalted butter
6 egg yolks
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond extract
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup ground almonds
1/4 cup stone ground whole wheat flour
2/3 cup raspberry jam
Let egg whites come to room temperature for half an hour in a large bowl.
Melt the batter of bittersweet chocolate by melting it into butter over double boiler. ...
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Chili with whole wheat bread from this:
My 13 bean chili bears a ressemblance to the recipe. (Stews are pretty resilient in the face of change.) I boiled the dried beans an hour then rather than let soak for an hour, then simmer for 3, I turned it off for 3 hours then simmered for 2 hours. ...
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Sumptuous meal with Christine — and me forgetting my camera, so emergency iphone grainy snaps only.
The happiness zucchini soup was saffron-yellow with rice (unpictured). Here, cold soba noodles with toasted sesame & honey. The roasted squash was with blue cheese, thyme and pecans. The linguine was with mushrooms, fresh thyme and lemon.
And apple kuchen with vanilla ice cream.
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Herb tea biscuits.
Rolled a little thick and cooked on convection that lowered heat by 25 degrees and dropped cooking time by 2 minutes.
2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
Herb de provence added to taste
1/2 cup cold unsalted butter chopped in
1 cup almond milk
Sift dry ingredients together. Chop in butter until it is a oatmeal texture. Add milk all at once. ...
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But delicious.
The blackberries are from Florida (1400 miles, 2200 km). The grapes from Peru (4000 miles, 6400 km). The Brie from France (3500 miles, 5600 km).
The flour just says “Canada” which may mean out west, (2200 miles, 3600 km) or within a hundred miles. The potato in the bread says just U.S.A. (somewhere). The sugar was imported by Canada, but no source. The butter has a Quebec office. The olive oil was bottled in Italy (4000 miles, 6700 km) but being ...
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Multigrain ciabatta grilled with feta, topped with corn relish, green onions and mushrooms and green beans.
Orange you glad you have oranges? Straight produce is a good for time-compressed days.
Dan Buettner says that for longevity there are 9 things culturally people do: downshift (time off), focus (a reason to get up in morning), have a lifestyle that requires you to move, have a simple diet, no overeating, live in community, and a few other ...
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Sun dried tomatoes, feta, mushrooms, oregano, no sauce and low salt…
and arugula added after the 6 minutes or so in oven. The crust was so thin it briefly puffed like a pita.
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Green salad of spinach, arugula, feta, tomatoes and sesame seed citrus salad dressing.
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Bob’s Red Mill Soup
Added to the lentil, barley and alphabet, etc, were parsnip, carrot, mushroom, celery and some italian spices.
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Red potato, boiled spinach, multigrain toast and hard boiled egg
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Happy kiwi.
He’s not supper
He’s too pucker
But the frying pan
cometh.
Thrown in with a rice dish like last time or cooked in with tomato sauce…we’ll see.
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