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Green Sauce

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Green sauce is the name of several different sauces containing mainly herbs: in Italy salsa verde, in France sauce verte, in Spain salsa verde and in Germany Grüne Soße. The traditional European green sauce is generally made as an emulsion, similar to a mayonnaise. It is different than a pesto in that it doesn’t include nuts.

Pan-Seared Rough Eye with Coconut Water and Rooibos Buerre Rouge

Pan-Seared Rough Eye with Coconut Water and Rooibos Buerre Rouge

We just love Trout Lake Farmer's Market, Vancouver BC. Our recipe from today's haul features many local food businesses. The rough eye fillet is from freshofftheboat.ca, the lychees are from our local Chinese farm stand (we just love lychee season!), the butter in the buerre rouge is from a loca ...

Halibut Steaks with Sour Cherry and Arugala Salad

Halibut Steaks with Sour Cherry and Arugala Salad

Oh man this dish is so delicious too bad my image doesn't really do it justice! I can't wait until we have fresh local blueberries and cherries again. The salad is delicious on its own as well. For the tarragon mustard use my probiotic-rich Date-Mustard recipe and just add tarragon to it. ...

Nectarine and Rocket Salad

Nectarine and Rocket Salad

This is one of my all time favorite salads. Very simple. Slightly under-ripe nectarines make a great substitute for tomatoes--sweet and sour with just enough firmness not to turn to mush when you mix it. The sweet-sour flavor of the nectarines goes just divinely with the peppery rocket leaves. A ...

First Trout Lake Farmers Market of 2012

First Trout Lake Farmers Market of 2012

We just love having the farmer's market back at Trout Lake! Yesterday was the first market of 2012 the weather was fine and the crowds were bustling. We got our weekly supply of free range eggs, 3kg tub of local honey from Jane's Honey Bees, a lovely pair of earrings for mother's day from Ragged ...

Balcony Garden 2011

Balcony Garden 2011

First stages of my balcony garden this year. The garden is doing amazingly well. I have to get more photos tomorrow. I have arugala, carrots, passionfruit, morning-glory, raspberry, lemon grass, goose-berries, strawberries (they didn't do so well this year though) and some random other things, some ...