I have had a comment about Recipe Tin Eats and to that comment I add, “Hear, hear!” We love Nagi and her delicious, accessible recipes. My sister-in-law, Carol, introduced me to Nagi Maehashi and her website http://www.recipetineats.com. When Nagi published her first cookbook last year I bought a copy as soon as it was available. Hands down, my favourite recipe from her website is the Artisan No Knead Crusty Bread and this recipe keeps my Dutch Ovens working hard! Be sure to visit her site and don’t forget to check out her “Charlie” stir-fry sauce recipe, page 94 in the cookbook.

World’s Easiest Yeast Bread recipe – Artisan, NO KNEAD crusty bread

Here is the link to purchase Nagi’s cookbook:

A year ago or so, I bought Martha Stewart’s Vegetables, Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2016 and it comes to us via the editors of Martha Stewart Living. I purchased this one in an effort to get more delicious vegetables on our supper plates. We all know we are to have half our plate given to vegetables, but I find myself in a rut when it comes to this part of the meal. How long can one put out pickles and call them the vegetable portion of the meal anyway? Our family enjoyed the Butternut, and Taleggio Pizza, although I used fresh mozzarella and pizza mozzarella instead of the Taleggio cheese, and one day soon it will be the Blistered Eggplant with Tomatoes, Olive and Feta that will grace that half of our dinner plates.

A favourite vegetable cookbook is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Veg, published in Canada by Appetite by Random House in 2013. Some of the recipes in here that tease the palate and invigorate the senses include the irresistible Roasted Tomato Sauce and its follow-up Roasted Tomato Ketchup. This second one will stop you from buying over-sugared prepared ketchup! I bought this book for one particular recipe that we have enjoyed many times now, Eggplant Parmigiana. This turned the entire family into eggplant lovers. Herby, Peanutty, Noodly Salad will satisfy cravings for freshness and crunch and New Potato, Tomato, and Boiled Egg Salad will give you a new reason to love Potato Salad. Panzanella gives life to stale bread and is another family favourite. With the variety of tomatoes, and especially heirloom tomatoes, one can get year-round now, this salad is never the same twice. Leek and Cheese Toastie will have you turning the broiler on again and again. There is something comforting about warm toast and oozing cheese that even a cold winter day can’t darken.

In Proverbs 25:11 we are told, “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver,” NKJV. I want to use my words to encourage and edify others. Our Lord Jesus Christ always spoke with forethought, compassion and grace and that is how I want to speak. Words are important and how we use them even more so. I want to stop, think, and then open my mouth. I want to be like the Proverbs 31 woman; “She opens her mouth with wisdom, And on her tongue is the law of kindness,” NKJV. Lord, help me to use wise, kind words for Your glory!