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 5
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Weekday Vegetarian: Indian Butter Chickpeas
One of the things I hear from people who have become vegetarian is that they miss some of their favourite dishes from their meat eating days. If you are missing the taste and texture of a big rib-eye steak, I can't help you out,
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Weekday Vegetarian: Lentil Stew
I happily missed all of the super hot weather in July when I was on my trip to France, but I could have used a little of that heat today. The radio says the temperature is 25C, but you couldn't prove it by me. It's been very windy
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Weekday Vegetarian: Breakfast Tacos with Pico de Gallo
Even though I'm an early morning person, I don't like to get cooking too soon in the day. I'm a devotee of toast, and that is what I have to eat most mornings. It's different during the summer though, when my days aren't so hectic
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Weekday Vegetarian: Green Beans, Potatoes and Spinach in Coconut Curry
I know there are lots of people who love Indian food, but find it a bit daunting to cook. I think it's often because there are so many spices involved in each dish, and it makes the recipes look long and complicated. I've
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Weekday Vegetarian: Couscous with Corn and Peas
This recipe is actually for something called fregola, which was new to me. It is apparently, "tiny, toothsome balls of pasta". Given that I'm at the cottage, I was reasonably certain that fregola would not be on offer at my
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Weekday Vegetarian: Bloody Mary Tomato Salad
I admit that I like a Bloody Mary as much as the next person, especially on a hot sunny afternoon. It always seems like a very summery drink to me. It takes me back to carefree summer afternoons at my in-laws' cottage when
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Weekday Vegetarian: Grape Leaf Pilaf
I first had stuffed grape leaves when I was an impressionable teenager. One of my favourite high school teachers had invited a number of his students over for dinner and that is what he served. It was so far removed from
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Weekday Vegetarian: Chilled Guacamole Soup
I just arrived home yesterday afternoon from my sojourn in the French Alps and a brief trip to Dublin and discovered much hotter weather than I have been experiencing for the past 3 weeks. With a combination of jest lag and
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Weekday Vegetarian: Artichokes with Garlic Butter and Parsley Dip
My friend Barb, who I am travelling with in the French Alps, is a professed non-cook. However, she announced the other night that she could make artichokes and would make them for dinner. The artichokes here are bigger than
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Weekday Vegetarian: Quiche with Reblochon Cheese and Herbs
Before anyone writes in and tells me how unhealthy this recipe is, I know, I know. But I happen to be hanging out in the French Alps for two weeks and eggs, cream and cheese are the currency here. In fact, I have probably
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Weekday Vegetarian: Roasted Garlic with Goat Cheese and Herbs
I'm travelling in the French alps and we were in the farmers' market the other day and came across a table covered entirely with garlic. In fact, I've never seen so much garlic in one place before. One of the members of our
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Weekday Vegetarian: Roasted Radishes with Tomato and Mushroom
We are all flying by the seat of our pants in a culinary way on my trip to France. Out of the four of us, three love to cook, and we all love to eat, so we are just buying the ingredients that interest us, and then somebody
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Weekday Vegetarian: White Bean and Vegetable Stew
I've been cooking up a storm the last two days because my daughter is working on a theatre festival and is working from 10:00 a.m. until 11 p.m. daily for the next two weeks and won't have time to cook for herself. I've made a bunch of stuff to stick
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Weekday Vegetarian: Mushroom Crostini
I have noticed that people don't entertain very much any more, even in the most casual way. People seem to think that having people over is a big production and it's too much work or expense, or it will be hard to do. I
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Weekday Vegetarian: Mushroom and Potato Curry Soup
I'm sitting up north and despite the weather report telling me it's a balmy temperature, we're all huddled around with our polar fleece on. No quite the salad weather I've been craving, more like the soup weather I thought I
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Weekday Vegetarian: Pea Pesto Crostini
When I had my big dinner party a couple of weeks ago, I made this pea crostini and everybody loved it. One guest was shocked when I told her what it was. She said "This can't be peas. I hate peas, but this is fabulous". That
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Weekday Vegetarian: Stuffed Spring Morels
When my husband and I attended the Brewer's Plate earlier this year my hands-down favourite thing was a morel dish that I've been thinking about ever since. I've been waiting for morels to be available at the farmers'
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Weekday Vegetarian: Orecchiette with Nettles
I got a stack of new cookbooks the other day, and my daughter and I were happily sitting by our newly planted vegetable garden looking through them when she got all excited and said "nettles! nettles!" after finding a recipe
