Poslfit Recipes

This page gathers recipes that people have asked for, after trying them at our house.

Appetizers and Side Dishes

Chicken Pasta Salad, with pseudo-Japanese dressing.
Cranberry Sauce, a very orangey version.
Curried Herring is surprisingly easy to make, and cheaper than a flight to Copenhagen to buy it premade.
Fuki to Abura-age no Nimono, or how to deal with a Petasites japonicus infestation in your garden.
Larb Gai, a spicy Thai ground chicken salad
Mâche and Fruit Salad, a surprisingly tasty thing to do with lamb’s lettuce.
Martha Stewart's Cumin-Garlic Guacamole, Kristen's favorite.
Nam Jim Seafood Sauce, a spicy Thai seafood sauce.
Potato Salad, with olives and sundried tomatoes.
Wild Rice with mushrooms and pine nuts.

Cheese Souffle, a reliable crowd-pleaser.
Fried Rice, or how to snack after school on leftovers.
Grilled Shrimp, with a simple marinade.
Huachinango Tikinchik, red snapper with achiote sauce, a Yucatecan staple, is yummy and easy to make if you have a box of achiote paste and good fresh fish.
Linguine with Mussels, thanks to Mike's Fish Market's Customer Appreciation Day offer of two free pounds of mussels with any purchase.
Linguine with Spinach, a basic non-tomato pasta dish.
Miso Gumbo, what I used to like to eat when I was sick.
Oyakodon, a Japanese comfort-food dish of chicken and onions simmered in eggs and seasoned broth, served over rice.
Pad Kaprow Gai, spicy Thai basil chicken.
Pasta with Pesto, Potato and Beans, popular with the whole family.
Salt & Pepper Shrimp, Szechuan-inspired.
Salmon Donburi, salmon, eggs and onions in a Japanese sauce served over rice.
Salmon Donburi For One, Salmon Donburi as an after-school snack.
Sardines, prepared in the traditional Japanese fashion.
Scallops and Fiddleheads, a seasonal favorite.
Three Cup Chicken (三杯鷄), a Taiwanese-inspired dish full of intense flavours
Turkey Stroganoff, traditionally eaten on December 27th.
Zarusoba, Japanese buckwheat noodles, served cold in the summertime.

Kristen's childhood birthday cake, an angel food cake with a strawberry cream filling.
Blueberry Sorbet, a fast recipe that can be made in under an hour.
Lilac Ice Cream, a somewhat time-consuming way to celebrate late spring with a delicately floral ice cream.
Peach-Blueberry Ice Cream, a single-batch layered ice cream recipe, our own invention.
Peach Ice Cream, a slightly simpler recipe for what to do with fresh local peaches.
Wild Blueberry Ice Cream, an original recipe with detailed notes about optimizing ice cream texture.