Curried coconut carrot and pumpkin soup in a bowl on a blue and white napkin

Curried coconut carrot and pumpkin soup

A quick little post today to share a winner of a soup I came up with last week… What do you do when you’ve got some leftover pumpkin purée and a load of carrots you forgot to roast? Make soup! It’s definitely soup weather here in Toronto and there’s nothing better on a chilly night … Read more

Soupe Joumou Giraumon recipe on eatlivetravelwrite.com

La soupe joumou

Around about now, I should have been taking my Grade 6s on a trip to the supermarket to shop for ingredients to make the Haitian food they would have researched. Today we’d go shopping, tomorrow, we’d have cooked 3 or 4 dishes and sat down to enjoy a meal together. I’ve done this activity in … Read more

Gingered-turkey meatball soup from Everyday Dorie on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Cook the Book Fridays: Gingered-turkey meatball soup from Everyday Dorie

This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and it’s a fabulous one for the chilly days of December. A tasty broth filled with rice noodles and vegetables and turkey meatballs packed with flavour is just the thing for dinner on a snowy day – this was … Read more

Cook the Book Fridays Dorie Greenspan’s Fresh-off-the-cob corn chowder on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Cook the Book Fridays: Fresh-off-the-cob corn chowder from Everyday Dorie

This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie. To be honest, it’s one I wasn’t particularly keen to make this month, given I knew I wouldn’t be able to find gorgeous corn like I do at home (I’m in France for a couple more weeks and corn … Read more

Dorie Greenspan Green as Spring Soup from Everyday Dorie on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Cook the Book Fridays: Green as spring soup from Everyday Dorie

This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and was the perfect soup to enjoy over Easter weekend (which wasn’t exactly spring-like but at least it wasn’t snowing… hey, we take what we can get in this era of odd weather…). This calls for green veggies –  … Read more