This is a very “student-friendly” pasta sauce. I came home late on Thursday night after a busy day teaching and tutoring. I had about 20 minutes to prepare some dinner before needing to do something else. I took out my wok, heated some olive oil, garlic, dried basil, oregano, some other miscellaneous herbs, and [...]
Entries from March 2007
March 15, 2007
new delivery
In this week’s box:
2 blood oranges
3 bartlett pears
3 granny smith apples
4 bananas
3 lemons
1 avocado
1 spinach
1 red leaf lettuce
1 lb PEI russet potato
1 tomato
2 artichokes
1 green onion
That’s a good set! I chose not to substitute anything this week. My observations are: the spinach is muddy, the red leaf lettuce is huge, and this week’s bananas are [...]
March 13, 2007
miso salmon fillet with wild rice and salad
My dear friend Michelle came up to visit from New York City. On Saturday night we stayed home and made a very simple (but delicious!) meal of salmon fillet with a miso marinade.
I bought two 7-8 inch long salmon fillets (around 0.5 kg) for three people. When I got home, I rubbed these down with [...]
March 13, 2007
impatience helps no one
so i was getting discouraged with my avocado. i peered into its growing crevice and saw nothing – no shoot, no root, no green. in fact, the whole thing looked like it wanted to give up and split apart. so in my curiousity and my discouragement, i popped the two halves apart, and in the [...]
March 6, 2007
spinach and cilantro dal
I had masses of spinach and cilantro in the fridge that was ready to make a turn for the worse. I searched for a good recipe that would use up masses of both at the same time. I ended up making a Spinach and Cilantro Dal (Indian lentil curry) – modified from the original recipes [...]
March 4, 2007
no sign of roots
An update on my avocado…
It has split, it has husked, but there is no sign of any rooty ends or any leafy sprouts.
Have I grown a dud? Or did it never recover from the metal nails?
I will give it a few more days…
