Daily Unadventures in Cooking

Ribollita is a healthy cabbage, bean and bread soup from the tuscan region of Italy. This vegeterian interpretation is delicious and easy comfort food.

I enjoyed the cassoulet with it’s firm fresh beans so much that I couldn’t wait to make something else from dried beans. For my second dried bean experiment I chose to make an easy soup from black beans and a smoked ham hock.  The spices bring out the richness in the beans and by blending [...]

Fresh, simple, and delicious, this cassoulet recipe tastes very real. The fresh vegetables retain their colour and flavour and the dried beans cook up deliciously as they are simmered with the meat.

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 [...]

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 week I did get it together and prep a healthy slow cooker meal for monday night. Nothing better then coming home to a big pot of soup. Plus then there is lunch for the next two days. So just in time for your week here is my slow cooker [...]

Every Monday night I have a late meeting with our offshore team and so I try and get organized so I don’t have to cook (or eat crap) on Monday evening. Every week I have the best intentions, but usually this doesn’t so much happen and I end up eating one of Ichiban, takeout or [...]

Thank goodness I was feeling lazy yesterday! It was pouring rain by the afternoon and I went out for a big run in the morning so all I wanted to do was curl up and read my book and bake a loaf of bread. So when we saw the stew meat I gave J [...]

I needed soup again and so I hit the grocery store for some quick stock and protein and pulled together this great soup. I made enough for two portions in the freezer, one dinner and one lunch and it all took less then 30 minutes.
Soup is so great when you are trying to eat healthy. [...]

Although I am naming this Tomato, Broccolini and Chickpea Pasta this is basically just a post-work-fridge pasta. I just happened to have a very well stocked fridge this day. Since I had cooked the chickpeas the previous day the ingredients were all nice and fresh so it was a lovely meal, and vegetarian too!
Tomato, [...]

This is such a keeper I can’t even tell you. I haven’t made falafel at home before (not counting a package) but it is really really easy. Totally a 30 minute meal, and even better it is vegetarian, cheap and healthy. If you pan fy them a little first you get them nice, crispy and [...]

I was challenged by our organic box this week when we got kale. I have never cooked with nor, as far I know, eaten kale so it was quite a challenge. From all the googling it seemed like the best and the safest way to cook it for a first was in a [...]

I got in trouble with this recipe for Cannellini Bean Puree, though it turned out delicious I always forget how long beans take to make from scratch. I saw Jamie Oliver do it on his new Jamie at Home show and I thought it would be great food for this time of year. However, cooking [...]