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I’m pretty smitten with this new soup. Although it uses ingredients I’m more than familiar with, the combination is somehow unlike any soup I’ve made before. Perhaps it’s the whole head of garlic. If I was the sort to do up a weekly meal plan, have meatless Mondays and pork chop Tuesdays and such, I’d make room for this soup. Despite starting the day (at 4 am!) with firefighters straight from the 2011 hotstuff calendar, my day wasn’t so hot, teetering on about an hour and a half of sleep. It capped off a rough week – I was grateful when my sister brought Vietnamese food home from work to feed us all. Wouldn’t it be nice to be five again and ride home in the back seat, sobbing if you’re overtired and feel like a good wail, and have someone carry you inside, put your jammies on and make popcorn and apple slices for you to eat in front of How to Train YourContinue reading

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Tonight’s dinner was planned – it was something I schemed up with the organizers of Ski for Heart– a fundraiser for the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta the second weekend in January that I’m going to be a part of. They put the recipes in their newsletter, and the plan was that I’d make them tonight. And I did! This penne pasta is one of my favourite make-ahead-and-freeze dinners, and so the plan was to make two (just using a single recipe below will produce two pansful, enough for 4 each), put one in the fridge to pop in the oven when we got home from the movie at around 7, and freeze the other to keep M&W sustained when I go to Montreal next weekend. (That’s right! Montreal for the weekend!) We ate the soup before we left, just so we didn’t arrive at the theatre ravenous, and the cookies got nibbled all day. But by the time we got home we were farContinue reading

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It’s occurring to me now that what may have planted the seed to make chicken salad sandwiches was A and I joking on the weekend that one of her chickens should be named Salad Sandwich. There was leftover grilled chicken in the fridge, and so I hacked it up with a green onion and the last of the blueberries and added the final scraping from the jar of Hellman’s Light, and I think that was it. I toyed with the idea of adding some mango and curry powder, but was just craving a plain old chicken salad sandwich. (I’m not sure I would have wanted one as badly had I made the aforementioned connection earlier.) I’m glad I didn’t mask the raspberry chicken flavour – this is the great thing about leftover chicken that has been marinated or cooked in some sort of sauce – the flavour translates over to the chicken salad. I love chicken salad sandwiches but rarely make them and am alwaysContinue reading

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