I cancelled my Lufa Farms subscription last week because it was simply too expensive. Instead, I made a commitment to go to the Good Food Market, hosted by the NDG Food Depot. They've got some excellent deals, and since I only work half-days on Friday, it gives me more time to play around in the kitchen with whatever I've bought ( Read more... )

Week three of my Lufa Farms basket! And this week it's all random, all the time!

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Week two of my Lufa Farms baskets! Let's see what we got, shall we?


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Why milk something for only two posts when you can do three? Here are my thoughts on how the first week of meal planning went.

( Review of meal plan for Sept. 10-16 )

Today was the big day, my first Lufa Farms basket! Here's a link to my meal plan and prep for this basket. So what did it look like when it finally arrived? Glad you asked! Behold!


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For a while, I've considered joining Lufa Farms, a rooftop garden program here in Montreal. You select weekly basket items from their farm and their partner farms, and it's delivered CSA-style to your designated "pick up point." Riding the wave of September good intentions, this week I finally decided to take the plunge. My first pick-up day will ( Read more... )

It all started when Marc left town for two weeks. There I was on a Sunday night, opening and closing the fridge, asking myself, "What do I want to make?" and coming up with the inevitable answer, "Nothing." Eventually I took myself out to dinner to a Vietnamese place around the corner and vowed that I wouldn't let it happen again ( Read more... )

In the continuing saga of my Rouxbe adventures, it's time for more steaming practice! Today's lesson was supposed to be steamed potatoes, steamed kale, and steamed bok choy. Alas, my fridge runs extremely cold and the bok choy froze, making it inedible for cooking. (Or at least, I think so. Does anyone know if leafy green vegetables are okay to use ( Read more... )

The latest in my Rouxbe lessons involved steaming. Today in particular was steamed lemon-garlic chicken with thyme and steamed broccoli with soy and sesame oilSince the steamer basket I have is actually kind of dangerous to use -- it's the kind that opens up like a flower, but there's no easy way of removing it from the steaming pot without risk of ( Read more... )

I've been following along with my Rouxbe course pretty solidly for a few weeks now, and most of the exercises I've come to recently have been dealing with vegetables and specifically with boiling vegetables. (The next lesson will be steaming, but for now we're at boiling and simmering.) I've learned a few very useful things. Did you know that ( Read more... )