Recipes & Tips

 

Feature Recipe

Moroccan Spiced Pistachios Recipe

Featured in our cookbook, Pillow Talk at Tulips & Maple, The Inside Scoop on Cocktail Parties and so hard to resist!

Ingredients
Yield: 1 ¼ cup; 6-8 servings
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp granulated garlic
½ tsp coarse salt
¼ tsp turmeric
¼ tsp ground ginger
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground nutmeg
1 cup shelled pistachios
1 ½ tsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp diced dried apricots
2 tbsp diced dates
Preheat oven to 350F and place rack in centre of oven. Mix first seven ingredients in a medium-size bowl. Add pistachios and oil and toss until well coated. Spread nuts on a baking sheet and bake uncovered for about 5 minutes. Watch carefully to prevent burning. When cool, transfer to medium-size bowl and stir in dried fruit. Store in airtight container at room temperature. If serving more than a day later, store dried fruit separately and stir with nuts on the day of serving. Recipe doubles easily.

Chef’s tip: Use these tasty bits as a topping for a green salad.

 

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Tips

Get Playful with your Veggie Tray

Throw away that plastic tray of supermarket veggies and let’s play. Consider these simple ideas to add pizzazz to your next veggie tray:

  • Cut vegetables in an imaginative way such as coins, spears, sticks or angle cuts
  • Garnish the platter with green carrot tops, fresh herbs, edible flowers or sprouts
  • Go beyond bowls for interesting dip containers. Try tea cups, antique jars, or hollowed-out large vegetables
  • Look around the house for a unique surface that can become your platter such as antique windows, toy wheelbarrows or picnic baskets
  • Place groups of vegetables in a number of small containers such as martini glasses and vases
  • Create a theme using the flavours of your dip such as oriental vegetables with an Asian-inspired dip

Bring out your creative spirit and be the star of your next pot luck or host party!