Tag Archives: Vegetables

Potato Leek Soup

It’s unseasonably warm but damp today. Crazily enough, once winter takes it’s hold, at least for me, I just wish it would put us into it’s full throws. Cold, crisp, freeze your the inside of your nose, crunchy snow kind of winter. I find it a little easier warming up from the cold rather than...

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Power of Food + Internet

The more food blogs I discover the more of one common element continues to show through. It’s obvious that we food bloggers love food. We love discovering it, smelling, touching, buying, cooking, sharing, eating and meeting with the growers who bring it all to us. It was quite sudden when it occurred to me that...

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Red Borscht With Porcini Mushroom Pierogies

From my fractional polish heritage, I was so lucky to have been included in my sister in laws family Christmas Eve tradition. Once horrified by the memories of beet soup with homogonized milk, that puce nightmare was no comparison to the hard work and detail which had been presented before us to gobble up. The...

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Latkes With Pomegranate Quince Chutney

I love latkes. It’s almost bad, how much I like latkes. A holiday tradition usually brings sharing and that might be my biggest problem. To date the best solution I’ve had is to make them smaller so I have more. That way it takes me a little longer to eat them and gives others a...

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Easy Caramelized Onion and Fennel Tart

Considering it’s chilly, I couldn’t help but to think warm. So when Jeanne, over at Cook Sister told me to go topless, I thought, well, that’s cheeky, it’s November. All snickers aside, I grabbed for the freezer door to find my handy pack of puff pastry. So quick and flaky, it’s this stuff that will...

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