Grains

Moroccan Couscous Soup

By Alex ⋅ March 24, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I made up this recipe for Moroccan Couscous Soup after seeing a couple of different recipes that used couscous as the base for a soup flavoured with harissa. Basically I emptied the fridge and pantry of all the things that needed to be used up and tossed them in the soup. You can follow this [...]

Chickpea Tagine

By Alex ⋅ March 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Carlo and I just got back from five glorious days in Austin. Aside from a 24 hour visit in December, it was the first time that both of us had been there together since my brother graduated from UT in May 2008. The whole trip was a blur of laughter, smiles, hanging out with friends, [...]

A Week of Salads, Part 4: Southwestern Sweet Potato and Quinoa Salad

By Alex ⋅ June 25, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

My new favourite cookbook is Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food. It is basically vegetable porn because I just can’t stop reading it. I will sit on the couch with it and read the book imagining all of the wonderful things that I’m going to make. Basically if [...]

Recession Recipes Grill Party: Mixed Bruschetta with Grilled Salmon with Salsa Verde, Grilled Zucchini with Mint and Red Chili, and Lentil and Sweet Potato Salad

By Carlo ⋅ May 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s Memorial Day weekend, which means lots of you will gather around a grill over the next few days, so we wanted to get together a full menu for your barbecue this weekend. I dithered a bit in choosing what to throw on the grill (as I usually do), but we settled on these choices [...]

Quinoa Salad

By Alex ⋅ May 13, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Carlo and I just got back from a three-day camping trip in Zion National Park. We had an incredible time, and it just might be my new favourite place in the world. When we go camping, we like to make up some hearty salad-type recipes that we can eat for lunch, so you don’t get [...]

Salmon Roasted in Cilantro Salsa with Quinoa Sopa Seco and Cucumber-Avocado Salsa

By Alex ⋅ April 30, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Here is another great salmon recipe with a Mexican twist, and perhaps the best recipe for quinoa that I’ve found yet. In case you have never heard of quinoa, it is a super healthy ancient Incan grain that makes for a nice change from brown rice or cous cous. All of these recipes were published [...]