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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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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!
Percy the Pumpkin is the gift that just keeps on giving. So far he has been resurrected as delicious dog treats approved by both large and small breed representatives, melt in your mouth pumpkin mini scones, and now he’s about to make his debut on…
It got cold today, and it snowed, in Kitsilano, something is very wrong. Luckily, I had started making chicken bone broth yesterday, so I was prepared. I also had some veggies in the fridge that were looking a little sad, so I decided to make…
This recipe is based on something billed as “Better Than Botox Bone Broth.“
Borscht is messy and a bit time consuming to make but oh so worth it. I adapted Kitchen Parade’s recipe for Karelian Borscht (Finnish-Russian Borscht) by adding an onion, upping the garlic to 6 cloves and leaving out the sugar (I doesn’t need it). I…