Gabriola author
For those of you who missed my reading today, Saturday, November 15, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. Here is a link to the recording that you can watch at your leisure. See below.
Facebook recording: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Z7MfuThUa/
The perfect gift for those who love local Canadian stories!
Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives: An Island Memoir.
Buy now! Or contact your local Indie bookstore to bring it in.
Mark your calendars for an online reading from Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives: An Island Memoir. Cozy up with a latte on November 15, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific for this lively event.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Writers’ Union of Canada for this event.
Tell all your friends!
Here is the link: Facebook live: https://www.facebook.com/events/1486847885935867/
If you’ve ever found yourself standing in the garden at peak strawberry season, wondering what to do with your overflowing harvest, look no further! Here on Gabriola, the strawberries are going wild, and there’s no better way to celebrate than with a plateful of blintzes filled with creamy cottage cheese and just-picked berries.
Has anyone noticed that cottage cheese is appearing in everything from ice cream to pancake batter as a healthy, high-protein alternative rich in calcium? And it’s true: it is filling, good for you, and very satisfying, especially when it is wrapped in a tender crepe. In this version, I simply chopped up the fresh berries and stirred them right into the cottage cheese filling. Add a dash of pure maple syrup or honey, and breakfast is served! I didn’t even know I was a trendy kind of gal.
A wee bit of the History of cottage cheese.
Did you know that cottage cheese goes way back to Mesopotamian times? According to an article in Smithsonian Magazine ( Stromberg, 2012), cheesemaking activities have been traced back over 7,000 years. Scientists have found pottery that resembles modern-day cheese strainers, with traces of dairy products inside! Who knew?
Regardless of when and how cottage cheese was invented… you will be sure to enjoy this nourishing, nostalgic recipe pulled straight from the pages of my award-winning foodoir, Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives: An Island Memoir.
Want more stories and recipes? Order Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives from your favourite indie bookstore, anywhere online, or visit my author webpage to learn more.
Live on Gabriola? Reach out to get your copy signed!
Recipe: Blintzes with Cottage Cheese and Fresh Strawberries.
Beat 3 eggs with 1 cup of milk, add 3 tablespoons of butter, a pinch of salt, and slowly beat in 3/4 cup of flour of your choice. I love these with buckwheat flour! ( Fun note: once I made this with fresh-ground oat flour, they turned out light and delicate.) Pour a small amount of batter into the pan and tilt it to cover the entire surface, creating a nice, thin blintz. Flip and brown the other side. Roll up with cottage cheese and sliced fresh strawberries. Serve with maple syrup or honey.
Lucky me! I met Anna McCarthy at Nanaimo’s Pride festival on Sunday, June 8th, on the hottest day ever, 31.7 degrees! McCarthy was launching her new children’s book, Giraffe in a Scarf: Fight for the Rights of Giraffes, of course! This book, written by Anna McCarthy and Emma Latham (illustrator), is about acceptance and friendship and is suitable for 2-8 year olds.
We love stories about acceptance and friendship!
You can check it out here: Goodreads
Or read more here: https://www.amazon.ca/Giraffe-Scarf-Rights-Giraffes-course/dp/1738103005
Missed Margot Fedoruk's author reading?
Check out this past online event from April 20, 2024. Anyone on or off Facebook can view the recording with the link below. Grab a tea and a a plate of cookies; sit back and relax and let her words nourish you.Visit:https://www.facebook.com/100005801558966/videos/1182968446023502
Anyone can join on Facebook live on Saturday April 20, 2024 at 11 AM Pacific.
This online event has been generously supported by The Writers’ Union of Canada and Canada Council for the Arts. Link to Stream Yard: https://streamyard.com/wfjh43jmx2
Reviews:
“An engrossing memoir about sea-urchin divers, the lightning bolt of first love, and the loneliness of a long-distance marriage.”
—Jan Wong, award-winning author of Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China“By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, a timid girl from Winnipeg’s North End becomes a boisterous, eloquent West Coaster. Margot Fedoruk inherits fiercely resilient genes from her Big and Little Babas. Read on to discover how an unstoppable zest for living transformed a haphazard upbringing. And for her drool-worthy recipes!”
—Caroline Woodward, bestselling author of Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper“Margot Fedoruk asks herself: “Is this a normal way to live? Would I choose this life again?” and you can’t help but read on, waiting for the answer.”
—Jack Knox, bestselling humourist and author of Fortune Knox Once: More Musings from the Edge“Margot Fedoruk plunges the reader into island life: love, sex, marriage, children, community, ferries, food, and the ocean itself. Intimate and funny, her story is also a testament to the vast amount of work women do, including the (unpaid) emotional and domestic. It will build your appetite—and fortunately the recipes are first-rate.”
—Kathy Page, Rogers Writers’ Trust award-winning author of Dear Evelyn“In Margot Fedoruk’s exquisite memoir, longing hangs in the air like an unidentified fragrance—longing for an intact family, longing for the perfect love. When she finally achieves some version of both, you will want to cheer her on. And you’ll want to taste-test the tantalizing recipes she offers along the way, too.”
—Frank Moher, award-winning playwright, journalist, and media critic“These are stories of hard separations and cold beers, of surviving the choices we make, and of forging home on a small island in the Pacific Northwest “surrounded by green so dark that it soaked up the sun.” And the recipes? Shared like secrets between the closest of friends after just enough wine and just the right shade of twilight.”
—Amber McMillan, author of The Woods: A Year on Protection Island“A beautifully-crafted, passionate celebration of the power and the pain of the bonds of family, a fierce, devoted marriage, and the way that food ties into memory, heritage, and being. The fusion of memoir and recipes is utterly enticing, and it may be cliched to say it, but I truly devoured the book in one sitting!”
—Sheryl Normandeau, author of The Little Prairie Book of Berries
Margot Fedoruk 