Articles tagged “Economical Dinners”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Weekday Vegetarian: 5 Vegetarian Dishes and Garlic and Wild Leek Simmered Pork By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health May 19 2010 Watch Graham Hill's TED talk about becoming a Weekday Vegetarian + READ MORE

Weekday Vegetarian: 5 Vegetarian Dishes and a Spring Vegetable Paella By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health May 12 2010 I'm a real sucker for casserole type dishes. They are usually pretty easy to make and easy to clean up afterward. I also really like dishes where there are a bunch of things mixed together and every mouthful brings something slightly different. This attraction may be because my mother was a 1950's housewife and casseroles where a big part of her cooking repertoire and I loved them. Well, other than her tuna fish casserole which still makes me gag just thinking about it. + READ MORE

Hold the Phone! Make Bahn Mi, the Delicious Vietnamese Sandwich, at Home By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health May 4 2010 Bahn Mi is a Vietnamese sandwich served on a kind of baguette. It normally involves pickles and often some kind of pork. It's a pretty inexpensive but filling dish that you can get at lots of Vietnamese take out places. + READ MORE

Nutrition 101: Get Your Folate with Lentil Ricotta Balls By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Mar 18 2010 You will find over this series that most of foods that provide excellent sources of vitamins that are plant based. Many of those, especially legumes, appear over and over again in the list of foods that are beneficial to your health. Legumes are especially important to consider if you are vegetarian, or are simply trying to limit the amount of meat in your diet. + READ MORE

31 Recipes to Warm Up Your March By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Mar 1 2010 When fast take-out food and heat and serve meals surround us, it's so easy not to bother to cook at all, and then the knowledge of how to cook never gets passed on. As part of his TED talk, Jamie Oliver has said that each student should leave high school knowing how to make 10 meals. Let's take that a bit further with a whole month's worth of recipes + READ MORE

Soup of the Week: Kidney Bean with Avocado and Cilantro By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Feb 19 2010 The flavour of this soup just jumped out at me. It was an absolutely perfect soup for a winter's day, hearty, flavourful with a wonderful texture. The recipe serves six, so I cut it in half because I was making if for two people, but I wish I had doubled or tripled it. This is the kind of soup to welcome you back after an afternoon outside. + READ MORE

Impress Your Friends: Spinach Souffle with Sundried Tomatoes and Asiago Cheese By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Feb 18 2010 This is a delicious and easy way to eat your vegetables. + READ MORE

A Perfect Quick Dinner: Tortilla and Black Bean Torte By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Feb 16 2010 I know that the Winter Olympics isn't as big a deal in the United States as it is in Canada. We are a northern, wintery country, despite the temperate clime of Vancouver, and we love our winter sports. Of course, the Olympics are on our own turf this time and it's even more important to us. I've been spending a lot of time watching the coverage. That doesn't leave a lot of time for cooking, so I've been taking some short cuts or making unbelievably easy and quick recipes so that I don't have to miss too much. + READ MORE

The Easiest Tomato Pasta Sauce You'll Ever Make By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Feb 12 2010 My husband and I are both trying to lighten our lives, getting our house in order, as it were. He is out of town for ten days, so I'm taking advantage of his empty home office to completely revamp and reorder his filing cabinets. It is one of my responsibilities to do the filing, and if I'm completely honest, I'm really terrible at it. Every time my husband says "where would I find..." my heart sinks because I mostly have to say "no idea". Part of it is a lack of committment to the task and part of it is because I inherited this job from him and his way of filing things is quite different from mine and everything always seems to be in the wrong place. + READ MORE

A Fantastic Spice Mix: Ras el Hanout By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Feb 8 2010 When I used my new tagine for the first time, I got nervous about putting this beautiful clay pot right on the heating element of the stove, so I put it in the oven. This time I decided to be brave and I cooked it stove top and I think the vegetarian stew turned out better. + READ MORE

A Truly Satisfying Veggie Burger By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Feb 4 2010 I've tried lots of recipes for veggie burgers in my time and the one I always go back to is a chickpea burger that my whole family enjoys. After this week, I have a new favourite. My husband kept saying all through dinner "this is really good". I liked everything about this burger. + READ MORE

Crock Pot Comfort: Soy Glazed Chicken Hot Pot By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jan 25 2010 I know I've whined a bit in the last few weeks about having a bad cold. Well, all my heavy-duty coughing has resulted in a broken rib, which is astonishingly painful. The crock pot has been a real life saver for me over the past two weeks, because I can get an easy meal started in the early afternoon when I still have a bit of energy, and then I don't have to worry about it for the rest of the day, + READ MORE

Soup of the Week: Italian Bean and Kale Soup By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jan 22 2010 I'm hosting a dinner party in a couple of weeks for my book club. We read books that are food related and then we all contribute to a dinner with the theme of the book. This month we are cooking Italian food, and it is on my mind. + READ MORE

Frugal Vegetarian Eating: Chickpeas and Spinach By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jan 21 2010 I generally cook vegetarian meals for our weeknight dinners.We occasionallly have meat, but not that often. Not only is it healthier for us and for the environment, it's easier on the pocketbook. We've been trying to get our fiscal house in order and that means I have to do my part and provide healthy, nourishing meals that don't cost a lot of money. + READ MORE

Energy Efficient Cooking: Black Bean Chili with Avocado Salsa By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jan 19 2010 I've been enjoying The Canadian Living Slow Cooker Collection so much, I went back to it to see what I could find that was vegetarian. This black bean chili was really appealing to me. It took no time at all to get it going and then the house filled with that wonderful chili aroma. + READ MORE

Meatless Meatballs Recipe: Surprisingly Realistic Mock Meat By Sami Grover IN Food & Health Dec 31 2009 These meatless meatballs may have an oxymoronic name. But they have fooled many a carnivore in their time. And they are super easy to make too. + READ MORE

Split Pea Soup: The Perfect End to Leftover Pork By Sami Grover IN Food & Health Dec 18 2009 Serving ham for the holidays? This split pea soup is the perfect way to use up those leftovers. And it'll work just as well for vegetarians too... + READ MORE

5 Bizarre Uses for Leftover Bacon Fat: Bacon Bourbon, Cookies, Bird Food and More By Sami Grover IN Food & Health Dec 18 2009 digg_url = 'http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/bizarre-leftover-bacon-cookies.html'; From desserts to drinks, bacon fat is a much ignored (and wasted) ingredient. Just remember, use in moderation. + READ MORE

What Makes Slow Cooking So Delicious? By Sami Grover IN Food & Health Dec 11 2009 Slow cooking isn't just about energy efficiency, or laziness. It's about physics too. Here's why keeping the temperature down effects flavor. + READ MORE

Shiitake Mushroom and Bacon Stuffing By Sami Grover IN Food & Health Nov 30 2009 Yes, this stuffing recipe is late. But it is so good, it's worth the wait. + READ MORE