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- North American Fish Depot, my favorite fish monger, another casualty of the gentrification of st. clair avenue w.
one of my earliest embroidery projects
doll blanket, blumenort manitoba c. 1970
roasted green chili salsa
toronto, ontario, february 2012
dried roasted green chilis
albuquerque, new mexico
sauerkraut perisky
toronto ontario february 2012
- one area where I wish I were not like my mother: when I'm cooking noodles I inevitably let the pot of cooking noodles boil over.
- Mennonite fondue: coffee and reeschtjes (rusks made from buns)
- to share and pass on the knowledge of food means being active participants, not passively watching celebrity chefs and then ordering take-out food. It requires understanding where our food comes from, respecting the animals we kill, and being able to cook them--all of them, including the fat. jennifer mclagan, Fat.
hamburger barbeque
toronto ontario august 2011 (photo: karin fast)
vínarterta
toronto ontario august 2011
- I said to the young man at Nova Era Bakery, "you know you have the best custard tarts in Toronto, don't you?" He didn't say "thanks." He didn't say, "well, yah." He shook his head and said, "no, you need to go to Portugal."
- When they were still green, hard and tart, we’d dare ourselves to stuff a hundred gooseberries in our mouths and eat them. Sour juices dribbling through our lips, our mouths twitched and contorted as we boldly chewed.
gooseberries
(photo: hans fast)
- fresh wild ontario blueberries
- last fall when I packaged and froze corn, I thought two dozen packages was outrageous for one person. now all the corn's gone!
- 1890 Manitoba Daily Free Press 16 July 6/2 - He dilated on the delectableness of rabbit soup.
- my grandmother drank her tea and coffee from her saucer. apparently this is known as kitchening.
- I bought a small tub of Imperial cheese in honor of my father. it isn't what it used to be; at best it's become nothing more than good quality cheez whiz.
- "Look at the mess we've got ourselves into," Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, "just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas." One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. tom waits
chanterelles
bought in prague; fried in heidelberg. (photo: karin fast)
- gastonomical lowlight for my first day in prague? breakfast at U Sutara Hotel. Just a notch above the styrofoam buffet of quality inn in lethbridge. highlight of the day? a juicy chunk of meat cut from a rotisserating ham cooking over an open fire in the town square.
- great assets as fine raiment and good looks can be on festive occasions, they are not essential like artful cooks and stalwart digestions. -w. h. auden, "To-night at Seven-Thirty"
- I can't take full credit for the schmoo torte or the pile of strawberries. My niece Irian had every bit as much to do with those desserts as I did.
schmoo torte
elmira ontario may 2010 (photo: rick sittler)
- recipe title from crescent dragonwagon’s A Country Inn Cookbook: "lynda's friend's great cioppino." (apparently lynda and her friends cooked through julia child's French Cooking long before julie ever had the idea. would probably have substantially improved the movie if lynda and her friends had been the protagonists.)
- my father turned the rolling pin. the handles are walnut, the cylinder, maple.
- i definitely prefer cast iron
you might think this is a shallot!
my kitchen, toronto ontario, august 2010
baci alle fragole
elmira ontario june 2010 (photo: rick sittler)
smokey eggplant and tomato pasta sauce
hecla island manitoba, august 2010 (photo: douglas fast)
- got mistaken for a restaurant critic today at Trattoria Giuliana in brantford ontario. very attentive service to be sure and i would have given them a decent rating had I been one.
- according to my mom, Taunte Trutje (my great aunt Gertrude) slowly simmered her gooseberries at the back of the stove to get a rich ruby brown jam
- hulled all my strawberries tonight
- conference highlight? trays and trays of big flat cookies, Mennonite style, perfectly stacked, lined up along two tables. compliments of kuma restaurant, aylmer, ontario
where're the mashed potatoes mom?
toronto ontario june 2010
- big, red, smokey iranian raisins
- entry for "plastic" from the complete OED - 1977 Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 16 The flabby, chalky, doughy slabs of our unpalatable plastic muck which masquerades as bread.
- fagottini: made from a round of dough gathered into a ball-shaped bundle, often stuffed with ricotta and fresh pear
- would love to organize a mole cook off
clafoutis
camp moose lake manitoba, december 2009 photo: karin fast
peach pie
montgomery's inn, september 2009
- sorrel leaves are poking through the soil. in a few weeks i'll be able to make summa borscht
- listening to the snap of lids on my jars of canned borscht with a great deal of satisfaction
- I've got 8 litres of milk thickening on the counter. eagerly anticipating the cottage cheese.
- well the eggs chase the bacon round the fryin' pan -- tom waits
- Nasr Foods in really and truly gone. a sad, sad day.
- world's best cabbage rolls? hungarian cultural centre, st. clair avenue w.
- yesterday I learned about dried grape skin flour used in bread to give it a delicate purple tinge. that would be red grapes I suppose
- my sister's dog enjoyed an entire pumpkin pie this thanksgiving and then had the gall to chomp into the second one!
- boeuf bourguignon for dinner last night. watch out julie & julia
- raisins as a yoga prop
- aloo tikki chaat at haveli indian restaurant in ottawa
- watermelon with a sprinkling of salt
- once a year made from freshly dug yukon gold potatoes: crisp-hot-fried in lard-french fries with mayonnaise and salt
noodles
riva palacios bolivia, march 2009
rea eija
blumenort manitoba, january 2009
zucotto alla ricotta
elmira ontario, november 2004
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very beautiful light on this land.
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