It used to be that if we wanted fish for dinner, we’d simply go out in our dory and catch some. We used to be happy with a couple of nice sized rockfish, thrilled if we got a snapper, and felt like we’d won the lottery if we brought in a good sized Lingcod. We…
French Apple Pie
We have six apple trees. Some are more suited to this climate than others. We usually get a good crops of Jonathans, Bramleys (my favourite) and Transparents. There’s a young standard McIntosh that gives us a few apples to eat right off the tree, and a Cox’s Orange Pippin that graces us with a few…
Sheila’s Lemon Bars
Everyone has a go-to dish for different events. Our daughter has been making these lemon bars for as long as I can remember. She’s shown how to make them to non-cooks, and delivers them happily to new moms, birthday folks, and as hostess gifts. She’s figured out that they taste OK when done gluten free,…
Oxtail Soup
The first time we went in to pick up beef from the butcher, he asked if we’d like the licker, the flicker, or the ticker. We stood looking at him like a couple of newbies. I’m not sure if he actually rolled his eyes, but probably somewhere in his head he was. The tongue, the…
Pumpkin Scones with Ginger
For the past week or so, the island has been blanketted in fog. Occasionally in the afternoon we get glimpses of blue sky which sends shots of light through the lingering wisps of fog, creating forests of sunbeams. Even though I know that the sky is blue up above the fog bank, I live in…
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