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.
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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: Zucchini Pancakes
Staying with the theme of quick appetizers for entertaining which I introduced yesterday, here is another recipe that you can make quickly from the contents of your refrigerator. You invite a friend or two over and have
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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
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Weekday Vegetarian: Italian Caprese Sandwiches
For years my daughter wouldn't eat raw tomatoes and only suffered cooked tomatoes occasionally. Now one of her favourite things to make is bruschetta. We had it just last night for dinner, but in a salad version without the
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Weekday Vegetarian: Linguine with Brown Butter, Sage and Poor Man's Parmesan
I'm a big fan of the website Food52, and I've made a lot of recipes from it. They have a themed contest each week, and this recipe is from the theme of "dirt cheap". It certainly was cheap, and it's hard to imagine that a sauce
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Weekday Vegetarian: Nettle and Ricotta Tart
I mentioned the other day that I bought myself quite a load of stinging nettles at the farmers' market. I made some delicious nettle tortellini with it, but I still had a large bag of it to cook. I was looking through nettle
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Weekday Vegetarian: Vegan Ginger Tofu
I've made a lot of stir fried tofu dishes in my time and this one was quite tasty. I'm not really sure what was different about it, maybe just that I let the tofu sit in the pan for a fair bit of time to get a nice crust to it.
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Weekday Vegetarian: Asparagus Namul
I get vegetarian diets, I get vegan diets, but I'm not sure I really get a raw diet. I know there are lots of people who swear by it, and I expect to hear from some of you in the comments, but I remain skeptical. It may simply
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Weekday Vegetarian: Nettle Tortellini
My daughter and I headed off to the farmers' market the other day and came across a farmer selling stinging nettles, which I love. She said they had been forced to cut a huge amount this week, because they were almost ready to
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Weekday Vegetarian: Tomato Basil Pinwheels
I spent some time experimenting with appetizers because I wanted to serve a few different things for my big dinner party last week. I wanted something that could be served at room temperature and that people could eat in one or
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Weekday Vegetarian: Riso Primavera
When I had my dinner party for thirty last week, it made me realize how much my cooking has changed over the past five years. I served marinated flank steak and some miso glazed salmon, but otherwise the vegetarians held sway
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Weekday Vegetarian: Flatbread with Fiddleheads and Asparagus
There is nothing as fast and easy as using commercial flatbreads as a base for a pizza-type dinner. I've used naan, tortillas and focaccia, even English muffins, all with delicious results. Of course, if you want to make your
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Weekday Vegetarian: Button Mushroom Salad
I had a buffet dinner party last week for 30 people and just to make things easier at the last minute, I served everything at room temperature. When I saw this recipe on Food52, it looked like a nice addition to the table, and
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Weekday Vegetarian: Mushroom Crepes
Now that my daughter is home from university, she pushes my in ways I don't always anticipate. When I was trying to figure out the quickest, easiest way to make lunch the other day, she said, let's make crepes. Now, I don't
