To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall. — Ann Patchett
blueberry & lemon mascarpone ice cream
food as medicine & turmeric pickles
You are born of men and women who have been utilizing plant medicines for many generations. Your blood and your body remembers; your body speaks the same language as these medicines. —Carrielynn Victor
sprouting and growing fenugreek (methi) & a recipe for gujarati methi roti
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. -Hippocrates
Fenugreek, known as methi in Hindi, is an important flavouring ingredient in Indian cuisine. It’s used as a herb (fresh leaves), spice (seeds or dried leaves), and vegetable (sprouts). It has a very distinctive, slightly bitter taste (acquired if you ask me) and is best known for its therapeutic properties. I grew up hearing all about its medicinal and nutritional benefits and now, digging around on the internet, I see that my parents knew well. 
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common ground & vegan baked beans (fèves au lard)
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. -Indigenous wisdom
When we first moved to Canada in the 70s, we lived in the eclectic neighbourhood of Mile End in Montréal, home already to successive waves of new immigrants who had come before us. In a way, our first neighbourhood was a fairly good representation of the population of the country at large and a pretty good place to start new roots. However, of all the other people who had settled here before us, the people with whom my parents identified most with were not immigrants at all.
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gingerbread men & happy holidays
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. —Confucius
mujadara, a middle-eastern rice and lentils dish
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food. –Anthony Bourdain
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spelt and whole wheat burger or slider buns
It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car. —Michael Pollan
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za’atar & whole wheat za’atar rolls
Mother Earth’s medicine chest is full of healing herbs of incomparable worth. —Robin Rose Bennett
green pico de gallo
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces. Just good food from fresh ingredients. –Julia Child
mango lemonade
Out with the old, in with the new.
summer gift wrapping inspiration
The earth laughs in flowers. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
spinach and ricotta stuffed pasta shells
All that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love. —Rumi
marinara sauce
There are no seasons in the American supermarket. Now there are tomatoes all year round, grown halfway around the world, picked when it was green, and ripened with ethylene gas. Although it looks like a tomato, it’s kind of a notional tomato. I mean, it’s the idea of a tomato. —Michael Pollan
french canadian yellow pea soup
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go. —Anthony Bourdain
