When there’s 42 degrees of difference between the temperature indoors and outdoors, you know it’s cold enough for heavy-duty roasting in the kitchen.
Tag: vegetables
Unconventional Borscht
A golden soup for grey days!
Baked Beans Bourgignon
I’ve always though that baked beans and Bourgignon sauce combined would be a match made in heaven. Think about it. Baked beans. With wine. And rosemary. And lots of roasted mushrooms. After trying it the verdict is that it’s damn decadent: pure comfort food be it for breakfast, lunch or supper. At breakfast, it can…
Hearty Vegetable Soup
If you keep up on Canadian weather, I’m in one of those places where the “Polar vortex” has kept spring at bay and temperatures sub-zero. So instead of frolicking in dandelion greens and fiddleheads, it’s still winter fare as the snow falls outside. Soup weather: to help with the sniffles and warm the shivering bones,…
Three-Squash Soup
One of my co-workers had a particularly productive spaghetti squash harvest and as a result, I’ve been gifted with a couple dozen the beautiful gourds. When you’ve got 21 spaghetti squash hanging about, there’s only so much squash and tomato sauce a person can take. So I’ve been branching out, finding other ways to use…
Apple-Sprout Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing
Summer has sprung and the young kale and arugula in the garden are ready for the first of many harvests! Combined with whatever small sprout is ready in the kitchen, this signals the time for one of my favourite salads. The sweet, spicy, crunchy and creamy all explode in the mouth with every bite and…
Awesome Indian-Style Veggies and Grains
As so often happens, the recipe I ended up making was nothing like the one I’d initially planned on. For starters there isn’t even any pineapple in it and the point of the exercise when I began was to use some of the pineapple that’s ready on the kitchen counter. But it’s a good thing…
Eating Organic Outside a City Center
Before getting into the heart of the issue on how to eat organic outside a big center, it’s worth mentioning that I haven’t always eaten organic (as much as possible). In fact, for most of my life it was far from a priority. In youth, spare cash was better spent on dying my hair a…
Crunchy Cooking 