Chicken & Herbes de Provence
Posted: 28 October 2012 Filed under: Chicken & Herbes de Provence, Uncategorized | Tags: booteh_recipes, chicken, food_photography, herbes-de-pronevce Leave a commentI first came across herbes de Provence when I was visiting Frankfurt on my way back from Paris. A friend had asked me to buy her a small container of this heavenly smelling spice and I had forgotten, but luckily found it right on a supermarket shelf in Frankfurt – and that’s actually when the request hit me!!
I find the delicate taste and aroma of this herb quite refreshing and amazing in a sense that it transforms your usual dish into a quite novel one. Here is how I used it with fried/oven-baked chicken.
Ingredients (for 4):
Smoked salmon bagel sandwich
Posted: 24 October 2012 Filed under: Smoked salmon bagel, Uncategorized | Tags: brunch; breakfast, food_photography 1 CommentOkay, there is no secret about this tasty fast sandwich – ideal for brunch if you ask me. I recently made a fuss over it and just had to share the pic and recipe!
Ingredients, let’s say for three: Bagels of your choice, 3, split and toasted inside. Cream cheese, 2 tbsp. Sliced smoked salmon, 300 gr. Caper, or caper berries, 7-8, sliced. Few slices of red onions.
Method: Everything is pretty much prepared if you followed the ingredients part! Just spread cream cheese, cover with salmon and top with onion and caper. It is great with fresh apple or orange juice!
Apple picking, a fall tradition
Posted: 16 October 2012 Filed under: Montreal related, Uncategorized | Tags: apple-picking, montreal_fall Leave a commentStarting from Mid August all the way to the end of October, just as you feel the warm weather is giving way to a fresh cool one, when the sky is more blue than ever and when you see the leaves go crazy with colors, as if the tree is set on fire, that’s when you know there is time to go for an apple picking trip anywhere in the province of Quebec.
There are several locations in and around the Island of Montreal with huge orchards, where you could do your apple picking and have a great time doing so. The admission is always free, and apple varieties, including McIntosh, Empire, Melba, Lobo, very affordable. Read the rest of this entry »
“Too cold, too soon,” say green tomatoes!
Posted: 12 October 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized, YARD, for gardening Leave a commentYep, the cold weather is here, too cold for the unripe tomatoes that is.
Story of my life. I plant the sidling sometime late May and wait some two months for them to grow tall enough to give our daily share of “home-grown love“. But then, when the cold weather arrives just now, the plants are still full of unripe green tomatoes. Sometimes I have to pick them, and let them ripe indoors – they do mostly if they are left unwashed in a cool place with lots of light. Will keep you posted on how they do. Read the rest of this entry »
Moment photography25
Posted: 11 October 2012 Filed under: Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: moment_photography Leave a comment
Meatballs & oven-baked fall vegetables
Posted: 8 October 2012 Filed under: Meatballs & oven-baked fall vegetables, Uncategorized | Tags: booteh_recipes, food_photography, meat_bowls Leave a commentToday is Thanksgiving Day in Canada you know, and for a couple of weeks now we have had lots of cranberries and all sort of squash in our vegetable markets, winking fall and a promise of colorful dishes. Here is the result of my inspiration.
Ingredients: (serving 3): Ground beef or veal 400 gr. Onion, 1 medium, grated. Potatoes, 2 medium, sliced (for fries). Tomatoes, 2 medium, chopped. Turmeric, ½ tea spoon. Chickpea flour, ½ tbsp. Olive oil, 3-4 tbsp. Salt and powdered black pepper, to taste. V8 (or any vegetable juice mix), half a cup. Chopped parsley, 1 tbsp. Side vegetables: I used fresh patty pan squash, cranberries, and asparagus. Use what is in season and what you fancy most.
My Caldron 