I probably make more soups in January and February than I do in the rest of the year combined, I’m going to blame it on the weather. This is a “curried” take on one of my favourite vegetables. This is a very hearty soup; it serves 4 as a first course. 1 butternut squash, cut [...]

Being vegetarian was easy for me because there was nothing vegetable based that I would not eat, except for beets! Must have been some suppressed childhood experience, but I would never go near the things. A couple of years ago, someone recommended that I try them pickled; I usually love anything pickled, so decided to [...]

Autumn is already in the air; there is a slight chill and the days are getting shorter. With labour day weekend, came the last of the veggies in my parents garden patch. For dinner, I wanted to include as many of them as possible and make a simple nutritious meal. It works out to be [...]

We are usually not very creative with dinner on a Friday night; it tends to be scrambled eggs or Thai take-out, but yesterday I wanted to do something different as Mr VdeT was coming home from a business trip, and we both very much felt like a home cooked meal. I nipped out of the [...]

About a month ago, in between watching world cup football games, Mr Vin de Table and I felt like eating potato chips. Potatoes rarely make it into our weekly veggie purchases, but we happened to have a couple of sweet potatoes laying around, originally purchased to be roasted with loads of other veggies, but were [...]