If the first few days of 2015 are any indication of how the year will progress the next 12 months are so far looking glittery and warm -- filled with equal quantities of vegetables and ice cream, underscored by full on work and much needed play, but a bit hangry and punctuated by laughable (as in I'd laugh if I weren't so hangry) service. On New Years Eve, roughly a half hour before midnight, we landed the best last minute fireworks viewing spot we've had in years. Nothing in front of us … [Read more...]
Summer Salad #1 – Radishes, Nectarines, Beans & Cherries
It arrived on my doorstep like a gift from the heavens. An overflowing box of seasonal produce, celebrating the start of summer fruit and veg and saving me from myself. As soon as it hit the table I unpacked every piece -- and then did what any slightly OCD normal, possibly colour-obsessed, person would do... I created a rainbow of course. I didn't realise until it was all packed away again that the fennel should have been turned the other way and now that's all I see when I look at … [Read more...]
Radish & Butter Tartine
This is not a real post, or even a real recipe. It's what happens when I have a bag of radishes from the discount bin at the organic grocery store, already sliced bread and perfectly room temperature butter from shooting a Vegan Butter recipe, and I need lunch, and said lunch looks so pretty that what would it hurt to take a few more photos. Open-faced sandwiches -- tartine in France, and smørrebrød/smørbrød/smörgås across Scandinavia, and voileipä in Finland, or stuff on bread as I … [Read more...]
