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The lawn around the little Anglican Church in Ladner, is strewn confetti- like with white, purple and yellow snow drops and crocuses. Our first spring flowers. Our weather though is hardly spring like. Damp and cold it called for … Continue reading
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Here on the west coast we have many, many gray days. This morning brilliant sunshine smiled at us so lunch called for my very own SUNSHINE SOUP. So called because it is the colour of sunshine, and so deeply delicious … Continue reading
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OEUF À LA COQUE M.F.K. Fisher’s book HOW TO COOK A WOLF pays homage to the philosophy of taking simple ingredients and transforming them into culinary splendor. There is nothing simpler, and nothing more delicate and delicious than a perfectly … Continue reading
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Now that you’ve made Preserved Lemons make this refreshing Mediterranean salad. Use curly parsley rather than the flat-leafed variety because it lends a certain fluffiness when the salad is mounded into a pyramid. PULLED PARSLEY SALAD WITH BLACK OLIVES AND … Continue reading
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OLIVE SPREAD WITH WALNUTS I call this a million dollar recipe. It’s that good. This is a type of tapenade that combines all the lush and lovely flavours we associate with Provence. There’s olives, garlic, fresh herbs like thyme, oregano … Continue reading
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Concentrated chicken stock in your deep freeze can turn you into a kitchen magician. Chicken stock, good home-made chicken stock is pure alchemy. One can whip up a quick sauce to rival any French kitchen. Add it to a few … Continue reading
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GINGER COOKIES FILLED WITH LEMON BUTTER CREAM ICING !! The ginger sugar cookies I made the other day were so good I wanted to make more. Happiness is having a jar filled with ginger sugar cookies. Double happiness is having … Continue reading
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A couple of weekends ago I was helping out in the kitchen of a very dear friend. Her parents were coming for lunch and we were running late, so I offered to make the salad. Her Mom, Betty, asked if … Continue reading
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It is traditional in many homes to have seafood on Christmas Eve. This simple risotto recipe is what we like to make for Christmas Eve supper. We pour champagne, light the big stone fireplace, put the Messiah on the Cd … Continue reading
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Christmas, 1944. Mona, Heather and me. The carol festival at Wesley United Church marked the beginning of the celebrations of Christmas. It always seemed to be bitterly cold that first week in December. My Mother, and we sisters would walk … Continue reading
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