What’s the story with all these recipes?

Big Sis (Erin) and Little Dish (Silvi)

This is a blog run by two sisters. Erin is the big sister who lives in New York, and Silvi is the little sister who lives in Vancouver.

They both love to cook! They created this blog to share & store recipes for the food they make.

Erin is a professional puppeteer, storyteller and arts educator who loves comfort food.  She has, because of health issues, been re-teaching herself to cook without gluten for the last five years, so she usually shares instructions for how to make her favourite dishes both with and without gluten.

Silvi is an urban gardener, a skilled theater craftsperson, a musician and an apprentice chocolatier.   She is a vegetarian and she  likes to improvise using seasonal ingredients and alchemical kitchen techniques.

Remember, if you want to make a recipe but don’t have some of the exact ingredients, just substitute for something you have. Cooking is fun!

We’ve also included a page with cookbooks we each use, and ingredients we keep in our pantries for spur-of-the-moment cooking.

14 Comments

  1. Angela

    Looks beautiful Silvi! I will have to try some of these yummy looking recipes out. Om nom nom nom. Happy eating! :)

  2. Ooh hooray! Hope you like! :D

    Love,
    Silvi

  3. HELLO THERE, firstly I have to say thank you some of your recipes have become staple foods in my house!! secondly I have nominated you for the ‘Kreativ Blogger Award’, go to my blog, thecommontarte.wordpress.com to see the terms and to see your review from me :) thank you again for your awesome blog xx

  4. L.J.!

    Thank you for your kind words and for giving us an award! I am feeling all warm and appreciated and stuff.

    Erin

  5. Rollene Billilngs

    What a wonderful idea…..! You two are awesome. Being friends with your Mom, and having known your Father, it’s no wonder you two are full of love and creativity. Much success to you both and hopefully I’ll see you sometime in the future. Just what I needed to get my own creative cooking juices flowing….Mahalo

  6. HEY! I have nominated you for the Sunshine Award, you and your blog bring sunshine to my life when I read it every week! Here is the link to my post including links to your website! Thank you for blogging :) L.J

    http://thecommontarte.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/%e2%99%a5-sunshine-award-%e2%99%a5/

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  8. Hi Erin and Silvi! Because I truly love reading your blog and checking out your inspiring pictures, I’ve nominated you for the Lovely Blog Award. Check out my blog for more information!

  9. Hi Erin and Silvi, I just stopped by to say that I’ve nominated Big Sis Little Dish for the Inspiring Blog Award! (You can see the post here: http://spontaneoustomato.com/2012/08/16/avocado-hummus/ )

  10. Hi :) I’ve nominated you for The Sunshine Award… I think you can claim it here: http://welcomebackbelly.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/an-award-nomination/ although I must admit I’m not 100% sure if I’ve done it right, it being my first go at this and all… anyway, I love your blog so of course I nominated you! :)

  11. I love how you both live in separate places however your food and your blog is like bridge towards you both keeping you closer in touch. xx

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