Carrot and Ginger Soup
This soup was made using no aids in food colouring other than it’s natural ingredients. Look at that colour! I just found out that carrots make for a lovely soup. This soup is velvety, sweet, savoury, a little spicy from the ginger and most definitely warming on a cold, rainy day like today. I like […]
New England Clam Chowder
One of my favourite foods are “soups that eat like a meal”. All one needs is a big bowl of soup, some crackers and dig in! Up until about a year ago my clam chowder used to come from a can or whenever I visited a seafood restaurant. I pleased to announce those days are […]
Spinach Salad With Pomegranates
My dad recently returned from Greece and one of the things he “liberated” are some pomegranates from our tree at our summer home in Greece. I keep telling him he shouldn’t be bringing stuff back but he insists on “sneaking” some back into the country. It could be worse, I used to have a friend […]
Cream of Butternut Squash Soup
I’ve been making this soup since discovering it in one of the local newspapers are are free and usually found at the subway entrances. I find that many people overdo butternut squash soup. You have a squash that’s already naturally sweet. No need for maple syrup, honey or making it too busy. Let the squash’s […]
Greek Salad With Roasted Garlic-Tomato Dressing
If anyone’s going to show you varying renditions of a Greek salad, it better be a Greek, um K? I, like many of many probably got sick of the 90’s food fad where everything seemed to have sun-dried tomatoes in them. I’ve only just started to get back into them. I liken the self-inflicted exile […]
Is It Soup Time Yet?
I live in Canada, albeit southern Canada but we still have long winters and the summers never last long enough (for me). I think many of us have noticed changes in the seasons, local climate, Mother Nature having drastic mood swings. Living in Canada is like this: one day you have the air conditioner on […]
Al Fresco Thanksgiving?
It seems that global warming is in full throttle. Toronto only saw 28 cm. of rain for all of Septemeber, I’m currently wearing shorts, I might have to flick on the air conditioner this weekend and…it might well be warm enough to eat Thanksgiving Dinner outside! For those not Canadian, we celebrate (as do the […]
Inspired by…..Airplane Food?
Yes, that’s right. I’m about to show you a side that I ate on my flight to Europe. Airplane food has rarely been edible and the portion control is quite extreme (c’mon airlines…feed me). Out of all the airplane food I’ve eaten, smoked salmon starters and cold sandwiches are all that stand out as tasty […]
Melitzanes Papoutsakia I
Recipe Update: Traditionally the eggplant is fried then stuffed with the meat mixture (then topped with Bechamel) but I’ve got a quicker, healthier and lighter version that will have you making Papoutsakia all the time! The important step is #2 where I bake the eggplant halves facedown in parchment-lined baking trays. I love it! —————————————————————————————————————————- This […]
Pickled Red Cherry Peppers
One of my favourite times of the year us autumn. It’s mild, the evenings are cool and comfy, Canada’s crops are up for harvesting and one seems to savour each day as you know winter comes all to quick. With autumn also comes preserving, canning, pickling, jarring, salting, curing, smoking, drying. All of these methods […]
