by Janice | Aug 26, 2013 | Cooking without rules, gluten-free, latest, recipe
Its the end of August, and while the days are still sunny and short-sleevey, but the nights have a crispness in the air that says fall is here. And that means comfort food and casseroles are back on the menu. This makes up a lot of shepherd’s pie filling, so...
by Janice | Aug 14, 2013 | gluten-free, latest, recipe
Its full-on tree fruit season here in BC, and with the hot, dry weather we’ve been having, the tree fruits this year are fantastic! So that means we are up to our ears in apricots, plums, and cherries! Most people think of cherries as dessert fare, but with...
by Janice | Aug 6, 2013 | gluten-free, recipe
I know Gyoza is not a verb, but it should be. Gyoza, potstickers, dumplings, mandoo, pierogi … they have various names, but they all have one thing in common. They are delicious! The wrapper remains the same – a thin disc of dough surrounding a variety...
by Janice | Jul 31, 2013 | Cooking without rules, latest
<Warning! Mild rant ahead … but there’s also a “recipe”> It seems everyone is an expert on food these days! Whether they’ve read the latest book on wheat and can espouse to you how its more evil than Satan himself, or there...
by Janice | Jul 23, 2013 | latest, methods
<Ok, that one sounded better in my head than typed out!> Since the (soldered in!) battery in our programmable rice cooker is pooched, we're back to cooking rice the old-fashioned way here at the Shiba Shack! It's not a hardship by any stretch of the...
