Kelly Rossiter
Kelly Rossiter has written over 1200 recipe posts for Discovery sites TreeHugger, Planet Green, and Parentables since 2005.
She lives in Toronto, Canada and is the mother of two adult children. Kelly's other "job" is studying classical piano. When not working or cooking, she can be found with her head in a book.
Latest Stories from Kelly Rossiter - Page 12
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Weekday Vegetarian: Vegan Sun-Dried Tomato Spread for Entertaining or for Everyday
This is the time of year for barbeque and cocktail parties. So many canapes involve meat or dairy products, so it's great to find a recipe that all of your guests can eat. This sun-dried tomato spread is so creamy, people might
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Weekday Vegetarian: A Quick and Healthy Vegan Pizza
It used to be that having a pizza meant using toppings that included tomato sauce, pepperoni smothered in lots of mozzerella cheese. Somewhere along the line we realized that you can actually put pretty much anything you like on top of a pizza and
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Weekday Vegetarian: A Wonderful Meringue Ice Cream Cake with Strawberries on a Summer Night
My husband was hosting a working dinner with 12 people. It's been very hot and humid here in the past week, so I wanted to serve a buffet where everything was room temperature. I made the vegan potato salad which has become a staple
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Weekday Vegetarian: A Leftover Lentil Salad
When I was first married, my mother-in-law told me not to bother serving my husband leftovers because he and his sister had always refused to eat what they called "used food". And, in that way that only new daughters-in-law can be, I replied then he
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Weekday Vegetarian: Use Up Your Less Than Perfect Strawberries with this Strawberry Bread
I had a big dinner party last week and I served fresh strawberries in chocolate cups for dessert. As usual, I bought too many strawberries, and we had lots left over. They were quite ripe, so eating them before they went bad was
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Weekday Vegetarian: Healthy and Delicious Lentil Patties
My husband and I were out of town the past weekend. He spent his days at a conference working, and I was lying around a beautiful house on Lake Erie with old friends, essentially spending the weekend overindulging. We were in a
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Weekday Vegetarian: A Farmers' Market Spinach Pie
We were spending the weekend with old friends and although we all enjoy cooking and expected to do a lot of it over the three days we were together, I wanted to take something that was ready to eat when we arrived. . I had lots of
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Weekday Vegetarian: Fantastic Fava Bean Puree
I've always stayed away from making anything with fava beans because inevitably the recipe will say how much work they are. The idea of shelling the beans and then having to peel each one of them seemed like a ridiculous amount of effort. On the other
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Weekday Vegetarian: A Different Kind of Couscous
I first had couscous twenty-five years ago when my son was born. A friend brought over a huge pot of ratatouille so I wouldn't have to cook for a couple of days. Along with it came a little bag of stuff that was completely foreign to
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Weekday Vegetarian: Making a Warm Weather Supper From Wilted Kale with Lemon and Garlic
I spent the weekend looking through a new cookbook from Williams-Sonoma called Cooking From the Farmers' Market. I've only made a few things from it so far, but I'm enjoying it. It's not a vegetarian cookbook, but the emphasis is on
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Weekday Vegetarian: Grill Your Asparagus, Then Choose A Sauce
My daughter has never been a big fan of asparagus, but when I cooked it on the grill last week, she changed her mind.
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Weekday Vegetarian: Cool Down with a Sorrel Salad with Creamy Chive Dressing
We are now into our third day in a row of temperatures in the over 90F range. Walking the dog at 6:30 am proved to be too hot for us both. It's hard to get up the energy to cook anything, and it's hard to get up the energy to eat as well. Easy salads
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Weekday Vegetarian: Falafel and Nettle Chips for Some Hot Weather Eating
It's pretty hot in Toronto these days, with the mercury hitting August temperatures in May. It makes me want to spend less time in the kitchen, and make lighter dinners with lots of vegetables. Middle Eastern cuisine is especially delicious in this
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Weekday Vegetarian: Make Fantastic Chinese Dan Dan Noodles with Tofu
My family are all big fans of Chinese cuisine, and I cook it often. One of my favourite cookbook authors is Fuchsia Dunlop, who wrote Land of Plenty and Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook. Her memoir Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of
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Weekday Vegetarian: More Foraging, This Time for Stinging Nettles
I know that stinging nettles grow wild in Ontario and you can forage for them, but I'm not really sure where to find them, unlike in England and Ireland where you can find them in just about every field. I realize that I've never
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Weekday Vegetarian: Make An Old-Fashioned Rhubarb Cobbler Just Like Your Grandma Did
In his book In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan suggests that we eat more like our grandparents. This weekend I felt like I was channeling my great-great grandmother in her 19th century farm kitchen. .I know that rhubarb is grown
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Weekday Vegetarian: Beyond Basil - Making Asparagus Pesto
You don't have to wait until late summer when the basil plants are huge to make pesto. You can make pesto out all kinds of vegetables. I still had lots of asparagus left over from my pickling, and pesto seemed like the perfect solution. I had centre
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Weekday Vegetarian: Don't Waste Anything With This Couscous Salad
I am the queen of leftovers. There is nothing I like more than taking bits and pieces of ingredients from my fridge and turning them into something new. It cleans out your fridge or pantry, you don't waste any food and you usually
