Leek and potato soup with sautéed sage leaves

Leek and potato soup with sautéed sage leaves

Leek and pototo soup is one of the easiest soups around and great for a rainy August day. If you don’t have any leeks, live dangerously and use 2 cups of yellow, Vidalia or Spanish onions. No one will arrest you. We also had loads 

Butternut Squash and Carrot Soup

Butternut Squash and Carrot Soup

This is a riff on the Butternut Squash soup from Love and Lemons, but without the pain in the butt of peeling and chopping the squash – it’s easier (and safer) to just to roast the thing whole in the oven like I did for 

Roasted Tomato Soup

Roasted Tomato Soup

One of my resolutions for 2022 is to do what I can to combat food waste. That means when I go to the local green grocer I look for the veg that is on special and needs to be used immediately. Today Kin’s Apple Farm 

White Navy Bean Soup

White Navy Bean Soup

I bought dried white navy beans on impulse that last time I was in the grocery store (beans are good in pandemics). Plus, I’d never cooked them before so I thought, why not? This recipe is just a little riff on “Mom’s Navy White Beans” 

Ham and Split Pea Soup in the Slow Cooker

Ham and Split Pea Soup in the Slow Cooker

1Vancouver seems to be in Covid-19 pandemic mode so I thought I’d start making some meals for the freezer. First up is ham and split pea soup. This is an easy soup that is hearty, tasty, and goes a long way. It also freezes well 

Chicken Bone Broth

Chicken Bone Broth

Every time I make chicken bone broth I just kind of wing it. I decided to write down what I did last time. This one is a mish mash of different flavours that I have used for different broths over the years. I thought I’d 

Red Lentil Soup with Lemon

Red Lentil Soup with Lemon

This recipe is based on a lentil soup recipe I found in Thug Kitchen: eat like you give a fu#K which I happened to flip through at a friend’s place. The “thugs” are an interesting couple whose mission is to verbally abuse you into eating 

Tom Kha Gai in the Slow Cooker

Tom Kha Gai in the Slow Cooker

I had chicken legs to use up and I wanted to make two dishes so I used the chicken thighs to make Tom Kah Gai in the slow cooker. I borrowed most of the recipe from this great Slow Cooker Tom Kha Gai recipe from 

Vegetable Soup

Vegetable Soup

Vegetable soup is hardy, nutritious and easy on the budget. I was reminded of this when I recently attended a Soup Sisters event here in Vancouver. If you are looking for a way to give back to your community in a way that has a 

Vegetable Dill Soup

Vegetable Dill Soup

I had a tonne of dill left over from making gravlax and gravlax cream cheese slather so I thought I’d make some vegetable soup for Souper Sunday…with leftovers for Meatless Monday, ha ha!