Tag: comfort food
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Ginger, Cabbage, Potato & Pork Soup
This is a delicious hearty soup that makes good use of winter veggies and leftover or fresh pork. The added lemon juice at the end gives an unexpected and very pleasing flavour. It takes no more than 20 minutes once your prep work is down. Ingredients 2 tablespoons butter or bacon fat (you can also…
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Polenta Fries
Sometimes I cook what I want to eat. Other times I cook something because the ingredients are available. Making polenta fries was an example of the latter. I had the polenta already cooked, I had the leftover oil I’d used for frying from a couple of days earlier, so making polenta fries seemed like the natural thing…
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Black Bean and Veggie Chili
This is a colourful, hearty, easy-to-make vegan chili recipe. The main ingredients are black beans, yam, bell peppers and kale. This delicious chili is closely based on a recipe from a woman named Maribeth, who is hosting a 30-day green smoothie challenge. Her recipe called for more yam, less bell pepper, and no kale. Not…
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Pulled pork sandwiches with homemade coleslaw
We recently got a slow cooker and I am loving it. I have mostly been making slow cooker ribs, and this week tried making pulled pork for the first time. It was super easy to prepare and came out delicious. I think the most important thing is to get the right cut of pork –…
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Roasted tomato soup
I love growing tomatoes in the summer. This year I opted to not cage them, partly out of cheapness (not wanting to buy new cages), and partly out of curiosity to see what would happen if they sprawled all over the deck. Well, they did sprawl and they took up more room than they would…