The local strawberries are just coming into season here, and so I’ve got a fridge full of them! I’m saving a punnet for a strawberry/rhubarb tart, but I thought I’d try throw some into a salad too. Along with some leftover pickled onions (from a chorizo taco salad I made last week) and a walnut […]
I’ve been having such an adventure trying out different meats and seafood over the last few weeks, but to be honest, I haven’t been in the kitchen much! Mr. KitchenOperas had a birthday at the end of May, and so we ate out a fair bit while we were celebrating. And all of my friends […]
Happy Happy New Year, my dear Kitchen Operas readers! How lovely it has been to spend time with family, friends, and relaxing over the holidays — I hope you all had wonderful celebrations as well. Mr. KitchenOperas and I hosted dinner for 17 (!!!) on Christmas Eve, and had such a lovely time with everyone. […]
Ashley is back with a recipe today for a quinoa & potato salad. We’ve been having a blast this week with all of our Vegan MoFo posts, and Ash is rocking her Insanity workouts!! I’m totally loving how creating all of these recipes for Vegan MoFo has got me spending more time in the kitchen. […]
Sometimes you need tacos or nachos, and sometimes you need a salad. My sister, Heather, and I always need tacos or nachos. There’s a local vegan restaurant that has tofu tacos with a creamy jalapeño/lime sauce… and we both love to order the tacos, mainly for the sauce. So I’ve been dying to make the […]
I have a new favourite winter salad, and it’s all about the cheese. Halloumi is one of my favourite cheeses — it’s a semi-hard brined cheese, super salty, and squeaky between your teeth (like cheese curds!). It has a fantastic quality for cooking: when you heat it, it doesn’t melt — so you can grill […]
In this recipe, massaging the kale with your hands makes the leaves wilt a bit so that they are tender enough to enjoy raw. And it’s one of those activities that’s calming for you… even though you’re the one giving (not getting) the massage!
While we were up on Lake Huron this summer, I had the opportunity to spend a little more time in the kitchen than usual. So I embarked upon a kitchen adventure: making pupusas. You may remember pupusas from my post about Emporium Latino in Kensington Market. They are Salvadoran corn breads stuffed with savoury fillings, […]
I did a really good clean out of the fridge today — and realized I didn’t have any ready-to-go healthy food in there. So I immediately put a pot of water on the stove and cooked up some quinoa. I’ve really been enjoying grain salads lately, and quinoa salad is one of my favourites. So […]
We’ve been doing a lot of salads around here lately, and it’s been a lot of the same thing over and over again… delicious versions of either our veggie Caesar salad over Romaine or my lemony arugula salad. But after a while, 2 salad options get a bit tiring, but we still want salad. So […]
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