Sour cherry season is short, but sweet… or sour… or whatever. So much to do with these little morsels of yumminess in so little time. Canning sour cherry compote to serve as a base for sauces to be lovingly spooned over duck and pork throughout the remainder of the year is one priority. Another is to slurp as much meggyleves — the borscht-like Hungarian chilled sour cherry soup — as humanly possible.
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Meggyleves — Chilled Sour Cherry Soup
Published 22 August 2012 Food 4 CommentsTags: borscht, cherries, Meggyleves, recipe, soup, Sour Cherry, sour cream, summer
Salmonberry Jam and Other Acts of Domesticity
Published 26 June 2008 Bio , Canada , Environment , Food 7 CommentsTags: blackberry, British Columbia, cooking, curds, domesticity, Food, forest, jam, jam making, Lower Mainland, Pacific Spirit Park, raspberry, Rubus Spectabilis, salmonberry, slamonberry jam, summer, Vancouver, yoghurt, yogurt
Summer has been slow to reach the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, and the natives have been getting restless. While we are sweating our asses off in India all winter, they are slogging through cold, grey, short days. The folks here seem relived and excited, in equal measure, that the cloudless skies of summer finally seem to have arrived.
My major disappointment about the unseasonably cold June is that the blackberries, which grow in such profusion here, will be slow to ripen. Fortunately, the fabulous salmonberry is now ripe for the plucking.
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Yet Another Reason Vancouver Rocks
Published 11 June 2008 Bio , Canada , Food , Friends , Sport 2 CommentsTags: biking, Food, Granville Island, moules a la mariniere, Public Market, sauce bordelaise, sea kayaking, steak, summer, Vancouver
This afternoon, under cool, grey skies, Yoo-Mi and Ellen rolled out the driveway on bicycle; and I launched a sea kayak from the beach in front of the house. Roughly an hour later, we rendezvoused on the dock at Granville Island, and began combing the aisleways of the Public Market for the makings of dinner.
Not a bad way to “run to the store.”
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