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Buddha’s Hand

I can’t remember seeing a Buddha’s Hand when we were in Bhutan. Or in Bangkok. Not in Japan either. Nor do I remember noticing any in California. Where I have found lots of them is at Whole Foods in Vancouver. Believe me, they’re worth searching for.

Filed Under: Eating, Inspirations
Tagged With: cookies, Lunar New Year, Recipe

Shell Bean Soup with Pasta & Rosemary

Every September since 1995, we’ve been making a shell bean soup recipe from a cookbook by Alice Waters. Today we’re travelling back in time to when I first made this autumn bowl of Italian earthiness—a soup so good it’s usurped the event of that fateful day.

Filed Under: Eating
Tagged With: Barlotti Beans, Cranberry Beans, Recipe, Romano Beans

Cooking Fig-Peckers with the Duchess

The first dish cited in our Insight guide to Sicily is Sarde a beccafico. I didn’t pay much attention, not being overly fond of sardines. But when I read in that same guidebook that you could stay at Via Butera 28 in Palermo, part of Palazzo Lanza Tomasi where Prince Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa lived while […]

Filed Under: Activities, Attractions, Countries, Eating, Inspirations
Tagged With: Italy, Palazzo Lanza Tomasi, Palermo, Prince Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Recipe, Sarde a beccafico, Sicily, The Leopard, Via Butera 28

Rhubarb: The Quintessential Sign of Spring

Don’t you love rhubarb? Growing up on the prairies, rhubarb signaled that winter was over: dessert bowls of mom’s dull-coloured canned rhubarb with its bracing, teeth-cleaning acidity came to an end, replaced by her fresh rhubarb pies and mini cakes: sugared rhubarb and walnuts topped with a sweet-cream biscuit dough and baked in muffin tins. […]

Filed Under: Eating
Tagged With: Muffins, Recipe

Another Reason we Love our Birth Province

About three-o-clock every afternoon these days when Vancouver’s grey skies darken toward charcoal and heavy rains pummel our flat roof, I need a cookie. The urge is as strong as when I was a kid getting home from school in the subzero cold of Saskatchewan and wanting mom’s warm “matrimonial cake,” gooey dates sandwiched between […]

Filed Under: Countries, Eating, Inspirations
Tagged With: Birch Hills, Canada, Chef Jenni, Cookbooklet Season, Date Oatmeal Cookies, Jenni Schrenk, Jenni Willems, Recipe, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

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