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A green soup inspired by the Indian sarson ka saag (slow cooked mustard greens). 1 lb frozen spinach 10 oz frozen mustard greens 1 tbsp olive oil 1 onion, chopped fine 2 tomatoes, chopped 1 tbsp red pepper flakes 1 tsp oregano 1 tsp thyme 4 cups vegetable stock/water salt to taste (use rock salt for...
we had an awesome mother's day weeekend and i hope you guys did too. i know i'm a little late with this but i've been busy... hubby and i had a really nice date on friday night. after dinner we had some drinks and watched the lakers lose, boo! afterwards we went to toluca lake to check out the...
Ok, so that’s fun to say, isn’t it? lol Fun to say, and fun to eat! Looking for something simple and packed with flavor? This is just the ticket. Active work time is only about 15 minutes, the rest is just bake time. Empanadas are great for lunch, or for a snack, and are great the next...
I love coconut. I love shrimp. I love coconut shrimp. The only problem with coconut shrimp - or most any shrimp you get in a restaurant - is that they invariably have their tails on, presumably for presentation effect (or maybe the cook is just lazy). I always end up getting messy and looking like...
My mother-in-law gets a bi-monthly magazine called Reminisce, and when she finishes with them, she passes them along to me. Among other cool articles, these magazines are packed with nice full-colour recipe cards, one of which I am about to "toot my own trumpet" about. This is from the...
Or 'mother's lentils', a famously rich and creamy Indian creation also known as dhaabe ki dal. A dhaaba is a roadside diner, often no more than a shed with a hot clay oven and a few charpais for the truckers passing by. The only selling point is the food, and it is not uncommon to see Hondas and...
Last weekend was the second in a series of Test Kitchen events which began in March. Given that it was the day after BlueHat, there were a couple folks from out of town who got to attend this time which was fantastic. For the May Test Kitchen we tested the following breakfast items (copied from the...
Doing my morning blog rounds I was over at Peter’s site (Kalofagas) longingly looking at his Eggs Benedict recipe (by the way, go and check that out you guys…it is seriously killing me I want it so badly), and realized there was a post just below that one that I hadn’t seen! WHAT? He had...
Anything Special for Mother’s Day This was one of my (late) mother's favorite Indonesian soup. It's called "Sayur Asem" (Sour/Tamarind Soup). We usually eat this with fried salted fishes, but if it's hard for you to get them, just skip the additional fun :) Ingredients 400gr beef and bones 1/4 cup...
Did I scare you? I mean, the idea of frozen salad probably isn’t that appealing. LOL But. And this is a pretty big BUT. (no, it’s not mine! ) Gazpacho. Sorbet. Combine the two and you have a bit of frozen heaven. This traditional Spanish soup is always served chilled, and often with ice…why...
Orange and chocolate are one of those perfect combinations…like wine and cheese, or pears and cheese, lemon and chicken…Chocolate *obviously* is fantastic on it’s own, but man, when you add that extra little zing of orange, it just elevates it to new levels. As the site’s one year...
Combine multiple shopping trips to the mall, busy work days shuttling between two community mental health centers and a crying uterus, and you get one very unhappy woman. I decided to get some comfort food, aka baba ghanoush from the only decent Middle Eastern restaurant in town. They were closed....
Ok, I just got this book and it freaking rocks. It has all kinds of great low-fat and low-cal recipes. One thing it really does have a lot of are dessert recipes. It also has great cocktail recipes. Basically this book tries to show you how to use substitutions to make recipes guilt-free. You can...
My grandmother, Stella on my Dad's side, passed down a recipe call Panhass, which translates in German to Pan Rabbit. The spelling on my Mom's version is Pahnhass and on my Dad's it's Ponicas. I present here both of their versions. My Dad is the only one alive, and he swears his is the correct...
(insert balloons, streamers and confetti here) Time to Par-tay! Canarygirl.com is one year old! It seems like just the other day when I started off on my own in the blogosphere…I had been blogging at Vox for quite a while, and before that had just shared recipes and photos on various sites across...
the paintI'm really hoping that link works because it's to all the "Habitat for Humanity" project I'm posting updates about at my creative tinkering joint at lj -not to be confused with a separate project of creativity that's only iPhone photography 2. cooking beans Take dried beans (or peas,...
I loved the potato-pea-quinoa soup so much that I had it with some noodles together with some bok choy. It was still really good. Soups with potatoes are just incredible. I finally tried the famous penne vodka from the excellent Veganomicon (page 193). I used whole-wheat elbows instead of penne and...
Recipe courtesy of "The New Basics Cookbook" by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins. Absolutely buy this book. It's fabulous! 1 leg of lamb (7 to 8 pounds) 2 large garlic cloves, slivered 5 tbs olive oil 2 tbs plus 2 tsp dried thyme leaves 2 tbs dried rosemary leaves 2 tbs plus 1 tsp coarsely ground black...
This week's theme is "Pies". But as I've never made a pie in my life, so I stole this recipe from Elise It looks good, though. I love pecans, but they are not easily found here. clipped from www.elise.com Pecan Pie Recipe Ingredients 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup light corn syrup 1/4 cup brown sugar...
The quintessential Indo-Chinese fusion meal. I can't make manchurians without missing mom..she loves these little dumplings of yum. They are served as 'Chinese' food in India, but I'm not even sure if they exist in China; a google search turns up only Indian recipes on the first page..lol. Authentic...
