Daily Unadventures in Cooking

Since American Thanksgiving is next week I thought I would post a recipe that I made last month with my turkey leftovers. Up in Canada we celebrate thanksgiving in October, I guess the holiday migrates south?

I made this chili last week as the beginnings of my post-Christmas detox. Anybody else craving simple, light, healthy food yet? In actual fact, I made this between Christmas and New Years and am trying to start my detox over since it didn’t really stick. (In case you are curious in this house detoxing means [...]

Last night was another cold night so I dug into the pantry and freezer and put this sausage, white bean and spinach soup together. We are going to the cabin on new years day so I was trying to avoid buying anything that might go bad. The great northern beans must have been in the [...]

I totally have burger fear. Usually it is the fear of dry burgers but when it comes to poultry it is also fear of killing people. I actually planned to make a homemade veggie burger last night but then I went to Whole Foods. My first experience at Whole Foods, and really [...]

This soup is truly a 15 minute meal, and barely needs a recipe but it really was quite comforting and delicious and there were enough leftovers for quality lunches the next day.  These flavours also work well as a pasta.  Kale is just so good in soups because it doesn’t fall apart like [...]

Last weekend amidst the dreaded hangover I made a big pan of Ina Garten’s Turkey Sausage Lasagna. I always have high hopes for lasagna but I still haven’t found a recipe that is quite right. I have made several of her recipes before with great results but this one kind of fell flat. [...]