During a busy week in a restaurant kitchen, I was checking the walk-in cooler doing the order for the following week. I came across three big cauliflowers that for some reason hadn’t been used. As the weather was rainy and cool, I decided to roast all the cauliflower and make soup. It sold out the…
Category: Vegetable
Roasted Carrot & Apple Purée
Textures and colours have always been important to me when it comes to food. I’ve had two memorable meals that were so off the mark that they made hospital food look good. Both were served on plain white china. Just setting the mood. The first was served in a small home eatery on one of…
Curried Pumpkin Soup with Apple
This was one of those nights! Hadn’t really spent any time thinking about dinner, but my husband’s on a special diet right now, and knew that I had to put something together! Looking in my diverse pantry, I kept seeing things that would really be good, but most of them were on the “no” list. …
Kale & White Bean Soup with Fresh Chorizo & Rosemary
The last day of this season’s Soup’s On program, we served large pots of seemingly never ending turkey vegetable soup to a crowd of friends and neighbours. So many dropped by to get their last fix of the Soup’s On experience to last them until fall. When we had served the last tray of sweets…
Senegalese Soup
Just said good-bye to our guests after a fun-filled Easter weekend. The sun is shining, it’s t-shirt weather and we have hundreds of daffodils blooming. Perfect weather for walks, photography and sitting outside visiting. We had a summerlike lunch on the porch yesterday, with bowls of Senegalese soup, and warm, delicious cornbread. I think that…
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