This is very much one of our family’s “go-to” recipes. Slightly spicy, with a good mix of interesting flavours, it’s great on it’s own for lunch, or as a side dish for supper. Soba noodles have an earthiness that plain wheat noodles just don’t deliver. Combined with the soy based dressing, they create a dish…
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Fried Rice ~ Basic Recipe
For several months one year, we had two young women staying with us through the Canada World Youth Program; one was a Canadian university student from Sherbrooke, Quebec, and the other, an economics student from Jakarta, Indonesia. Language was one of the key components to their stay here, as well as volunteering in the community….
Rice Salad with Ginger & Lemongrass
Potlucks are easy ways to gather for a meal. They’ve been around for years, and will continue for many to come. One way to hold a potluck is to give no rules, and just see what turns up. There have been stories of twelve bowls of green salads lined up, with nothing else. Or the…
Farmhouse Chicken Wings
I’m not sure if I’ve ever actually had Chicken Wings in a pub setting. Most likely because I had left the city and was living on this lovely little island before they became a “thing”. There are, however, a couple of recipes of sticky, yummy chicken that I remember most fondly. One was a family…
Udon Noodles with Mushrooms, Gai Lan & Shrimp
It was dry today. Yesterday was a mix of monsoon type rain, with snow. Dry days in the winter allow us a snippet of daylight hours to get things done! Living on our farm makes us so appreciative of breaks in the weather and a toasty fire in the woodstove. Stretching the day to the…
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