Haricot Bean Soup: Hot or Chilled

Haricot Bean Soup: Hot or Chilled

This month we are wandering our backyards and green spaces for inspiration, not only for recipes but to share our appreciation for home grown food. We asked a good friend and fellow gardener Erin to share how our community garden outreach program makes the efficiency …read more

Chicken Tortilla Soup

Chicken Tortilla Soup

Last week we shared some of John des Rosiers kitchen skills for the home cook from his professional kitchen at Inovasi. Meg wanted some tips to help become a more functional cook, since most of us never receive any formal training. I admitted that I …read more

Parsnip Soup with Crispy Pancetta

Parsnip Soup with Crispy Pancetta

As the festivities envelope us I’m looking forward to Grandma arriving from England to stay and it’s a joy for my girls to have an overdue two weeks of unrestricted access. With Grandma life is different, and pleasingly so. We often find ourselves sitting down …read more

Spiced Coconut Cauliflower Soup

Spiced Coconut Cauliflower Soup

This week, as Meg begins another seasonal cleanse with Frances Murchison of Mindfullyfed (more on this next week), I’m busy filtering my thoughts for our summer vacation. Now at the end of January, just when the drudge of winter is beginning to take its toll, …read more

French Onion Soup Gratin

French Onion Soup Gratin

Before the Holidays in England, my brother and I would spend December wishing away the days in the hope that Christmas would come quicker. “Don’t wish your life away!” I would often hear my dad saying, a nugget of advice which has become golden over the …read more