Product Management, Productivity and Personal musings
Since the weather has turned chilly in the last few weeks, I've had a serious hankering for stew. Lucky for me, my dad hunts and is generous with the contents of his freezer, so I made venison stew to kick off autumn right. You could easily use beef instead, but if you're lucky enough to …
I love scones (or biscuits, or whatever you want to call them). When I was little, my Nana would bake proper Scottish scones, and they seemed to me to be the most complicated and delicious things in the universe. Turns out, they're not that complicated! I make them a lot because they're really quick to …
You heard it here first ... {Chopped up peaches and pitted cherries.} This weekend, in the midst of crossing things off my massive to do list (seriously, I actually crossed them off ... on the internets ... 'cause I'm cool like that) I decided to make a galette to serve after dinner with Lisa on …
{Pancakes, lookin' all fancy.} I used to have a bit of a tenuous relationship with pancakes. My sister loves them and used to want them all the time when we were little, so I got a little sick of them after a while. I'm into them again though, and love the recipe from my childhood. …
{Jam cooling on the balcony.} We've had many, many pounds of strawberries sitting in our freezer ever since we went berry picking a few weeks ago. On Sunday, Nick and I, and our friend Melissa, finally got around to making jam with them. I'd never canned before and was expecting it to be a laborious …
This corn and bean salad is one of my favourites. I can't take credit for it though. It comes from my boss, Sam, who is a vegan. The corn and beans apparently make a complete protein so it's a good no meat meal. Nick likes to eat it as more of a salsa but it …
Lentils are one of those things that I know I should like but let's face it, cooked poorly and they are really dull. I was recently flipping through my Williams Sonoma Salad cookbook and found a recipe for lentil salad that sounded pretty good. I made it once before we went to Alberta and found …
{Finished sauce, on pasta with meatballs with blue cheese.} I love Sundays. The BF and I usually spend it cooking, cleaning and generally relaxing around home. This Sunday we decided to make a whole whack of pasta sauce to freeze. Apparently this was THE thing to do because when we got to the grocery store …
I believe I have mentioned before that I love avocados. Love probably isn't a strong enough word. I actually didn't know how much I loved them until I tried guacamole made by my friend Laura, two years ago. (The sunny weather on the back balcony and the cool beer didn't hurt, either.) After professing my …
I've only recently realized that I love, love spaghetti squash. Not like I love avocados, but is it possible to love anything else that much? On Tuesday night while Nick was out I decided to made spaghetti squash with, wait for it, spaghetti! (Not THAT exciting, I know.) Because the only thing better than long …
Kate Moore Hermes 