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Red Onion Soup with Cheese Toasts – Market Cooking

April 30, 2018 By Jittery Cook 4 Comments

Colourful small bowl with Red Onion Soup with Cheese Toasts - David Tanis Market Cooking

David Tanis‘s roots in culinary utopias from Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California to Café Escalera in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a private supper club in Paris have likely contributed to his earthy, vibrant fourth cookbook David Tanis Market Cooking. Red Onion Soup with Cheese Toasts was the signature recipe we lovingly sampled when David visited Appetite for…

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Snow Crabs – Food Bucket List

April 19, 2018 By Jittery Cook 7 Comments

White dinner plate on a bamboo placemat with black cutlery. Cooked crab legs, snap peas, snow pea leaf shoots, roasted peppers and black rice are on the plate. Glass of water on the side

There was a whole mess of live snow crabs in the seafood display at the Kim Phat grocery store last Sunday. I took the plunge and bought some. After all, cooking fresh crab is on my food bucket list.

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Life is Sweet and Sour Meatballs – Cook Your Marriage Happy

March 24, 2018 By Jittery Cook 9 Comments

Sweet and Sour Meatballs with toothpicks, ready to serve from a cast iron Le Creuset, off white pan.

Debra Borden, a social worker, wrote the book Cook Your Marriage Happy describing her brand of cooking therapy. Apparently you can improve your emotional health while making dinner. After all, marriage is like a complicated recipe. Cook your Marriage Happy is a short 90-page manual full of food for thought. Here’s what I learned:  Cooking is healing, bonding…

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Instant Pot Beijing Style Hot and Sour Cabbage

January 8, 2018 By Jittery Cook 4 Comments

Instant Pot Beijing Style Hot and Sour Cabbage with sauce poured over the cooked cabbage in a glass pyrex dish on a white tray with serving spoon and fork

My good friend, Lorry Silver, cracked a joke about her multi-cooker having a faxing option, if only she could locate the instructions. Ha-ha! But did you know that if you get food stuck to the bottom of your Instant Pot, you can pressure cook a little dish soap and water to make it clean as a whistle? Thank Hip Pressure…

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Double Cooked Squashed Potatoes – Beyond Delicious

October 17, 2017 By Jittery Cook 8 Comments

Roasted squashed red fingerling potatoes on a black cookina sheet.

Psst! Wanna be adored? Wanna make the dish that makes the party? My good friend, Mimi Kitner Schwarz, is responsible for introducing me and thus you to these Double Cooked Squashed Potatoes that are beyond delicious.  Mimi discovered these Double Cooked Squashed Potatoes years ago in Susie Middleton‘s Crowd Pleasing Crispy Potatoes (Fine Cooking Magazine, January 2007), also known as Crispy…

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Szechuan Cabbage Stir Fry – So Sizzlin’ Hot

July 1, 2017 By Jittery Cook Leave a Comment

Szechuan Cabbage Stir Fry

Cabbage is the least sexy vegetable. Add some spice, sweetness and heat, and you’ll have yourself the sexiest cabbage dish in town.  This Szechuan Cabbage Stir Fry rivals the delicious dish from The Little Pink Fish Restaurant in downtown Montreal (at 1813 St. Catherine Street; it used to be called Kanbai.) Szechuan Cabbage Stir Fry is so sizzlin’ hot that…

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