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 18
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Green Halloween: Ghost Potatoes
Okay, there is nothing particularly green about this recipe (unless your potatoes, milk and eggs are all local, of course), but it does prove that TreeHuggers have a sense of humour.
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Recipe of the Week: Vegetarian Moussaka
Last week while I was reading through my local newspaper I saw a recipe from a cookbook by Aristedes Pasparakis. My husband and I spent many hours eating food prepared by Aristedes (we never knew his last name). He opened his first Toronto restaurant,
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Recipe of the Week: Cheese and Pepper Bread
Regular readers of this recipe column will remember a few weeks back when I wrote about creating a cookbook for my daughter Emma, who had just got her own apartment out of town. That required spending a lot of time going through my cookbook collection.
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Recipe of the Week: Roasted Vegetable Salad with Garlic Dressing
It's Thanksgiving in Canada this weekend, and for us that means heading to the cottage for the final weekend of the year. A number of years ago our cottage neighbours generously invited us to their family Thanksgiving at the last minute after hearing
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Recipe of the Week - Carrot and Lentil Soup
The temperature in Toronto reached over 30 C again this week, so once more I have delayed the roasting of pumpkin and squash that I have been hankering after. From the sounds of it we will soon have weather more in keeping with the autumn and I will be
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Recipe of the Week - Heirloom Tomato and Arugula Salad
I was in a real quandry this week about the recipe for my post. I have been thinking about autumn foods. I have been setting my mind to squash and apples and things to roast and bake and make hearty soups from. On the other hand, it happens to be 27 C
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Recipe of the Week - Chocolate Cake
My beloved daughter has just left for her second year of university. There are two big differences between this year and last for me. The first is that I am no longer a neophyte empty nester. I don't sob in public anymore. I still miss her like mad,
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Recipe of the Week - A Two Dollar Squash
My idyllic summer retreat ends tomorrow and I head back to the city. I'm leaving behind the loons, the family of mink that dash past my deck chair and the magnificent pileated woodpecker who dines a few feet from my window. Sadly, I am also leaving
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Recipe of the Week: A Few Things to try with Roasted Garlic
For the past six weeks we have been buying all of our vegetables from a woman down the road from our cottage. Her huge garden contains the crops familiar to generations of Ontarians, beets, potatoes, beans, carrots, onions, tomatoes. The standout crop
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Recipe of the Week: Coconut Curried Vegetables
Vikram Vij is the chef of Vij's, one of the star restaurants in Vancouver. In the Globe and Mail this week, Mr. Vij extols the virtues of shopping at your local farmer's market and then going home and cooking the family dinner together. I happen to
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Recipe of the Week: Soba Noodle Salad
In many parts of Canada the August long weekend is the real party weekend of the summer season. Normally I carefully guard my quiet cottage retreat, but I happily have company at this time of the year. This past weekend we had both old and new
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Weekday Vegetarian: Linguine with Tomatoes and Basil
Now that it is August, I will share the recipe that I make only during this month, the one that my family waits the entire year to enjoy. I have been making this pasta from memory for many years so I had to think long and hard about when I first ate it
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Recipe of the Week: Swiss Chard
I find that
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Recipe of the Week: Grilled Marinated Portobello Mushrooms
Now that the barbecue season is well under way you may be getting tired of the same veggie burgers. A simple alternative is grilled portobello mushrooms.
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Recipe of the Week: Better than borscht - Spaghetti with Rubies
Once again this week I found myself at the farmer's market loading up on everything I could carry without thinking about what do with all this produce. As I cooked my way through my haul I kept looking at the two bunches of baby sized beets and
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Recipe of the Week : Get out of the Kitchen! Two Quick and Easy Salads
I've been thinking about the amount of time I spend in the kitchen. During the winter I'm there all the time making soups and stews and things that fill the house with the wonderful aromas of cooking. This time of the year I'd rather be outside so I
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Recipe of the Week: Cucumber Avocado Soup
It has been an extremely hot, humid week in Toronto. It's certainly been too hot to cook indoors, but even the idea of eating hot food from the barbeque seems too much. So after days of tossing together bean salads, green salads and gazpacho, I thought
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Recipe of the Week: Strawberry and Spinach Salad
I was excited to snap up the first Ontario strawberries in the farmer's market last week. I just cleaned them and left them in a bowl so that anyone walking by could pop one or two into their mouth. That's great when the berries are perfectly ripe and
