Lunch and Dinner

Well today I took yet another trip to Granville Island to grab some fresh food to cook lunch and dinner with. I decided to have a simple mini baguette with caramelized onions for lunch. I remembered seeing a recipe in my most recent cookbook purchase, Tyler Florence's latest book, Tyler's Ultimate. The recipe is very simple, just caramalize some onions and a few anchovy fillets in a bit of butter and spread it on a baguette. Add a few olives then wack it in the oven for 15 minutes. When done sprinkle a bit of grated parmesan on top and Bob's your auntie it's done.


While I was on Granville Island I happened to see a shop I hadn't noticed before, The Lobster Man. The lobster man sells lobster, crabs and other live shellfish. So I decided to have a look and ended up buying a few manila clams. Once home I once again turned to the new cookbook and found a recipe for spaghetti with clams. I didn't have a few of the ingredients so had to take another trip out after lunch to a local Greek produce store where I bought a little bit of prosciutto and a vege shop where I bought some cherry tomatoes. It turned out that the recipe actually used pancetta not prosciutto but I made do. It also called for fresh basil leaves but I decided to make do with the leftover pesto from the halibut I had yesterday. Boy oh boy was that a tasty dish. I had never cooked clams before but I think I may just have to cook this recipe again because it was an absolute delight.