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Orange and Carrot Salad

March 10, 2011

Winter has returned with a vengeance, Dumping great soggy clumps of slush on our heads. In the face of this penetrating cold, I don’t want hot soup. I don’t want great steaming mounds of comfort food. I want warm temperatures and sunshine. And I want it now. So I’m pretending they dishwater gray sky is [...]

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Recipe: Ginger Orange Carrot Soup

November 15, 2010

I’m not psychic but something tells me that before the winter is over, my copy of Jeanelle Mitchell’s For the Love of Soup is going to be dog-eared, grease-splattered and a fought over. Sorry extended family, but you’ll have to get your own copy. I can’t imagine being without mine for long. I first heard [...]

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Recipe: Plum and Orange Sorbet

October 20, 2010

The pears went bad so I called on the plums. The plums started to go so I… reached for the ice cream maker. I could have made preserves, but I had too few plums to make jam worthwhile. The fruit would have slipped from iffy to unusable by the time I had found the jars, [...]

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Chicken with Dried Cranberries and Orange

March 17, 2009

After yesterday’s jelly bean confession, I figured I should eat a healthy meal. But I wanted the intense flavours those tiny shellac-coated goodies offered. My solution, dried cranberries. The shot above is an extreme close up of the cranberry sauce that graced my potentially ho-hum chicken. Marmalade, balsamic vinegar and some orange brightened up an [...]

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Quick Carrot Ginger Saute

November 18, 2008

This rainbow of carrots is one of my souvenirs from the Royal Winter Fair. I figured they’d go over better than adopting a lop or lamb. I was going to use them to make a healthy carrot ginger soup for Accidental Hedonist, but just couldn’t bring myself to puree these gorgeous colors into mush. So, [...]

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