This tomato and red pepper soup is a fresh delicious combination of flavours. Easy to make in just a few simple steps and will serve 4-6 people for main course or 8-10 for appetizer. Kids love it too ☺ Ingredients: 3 large red bell peppers 2 medium onions 1-3 cloves of garlic 10 ripe tomatoes Olive oil Salt and pepper Smoked salt Vegetable or chicken broth to cover, about 5 dl (2 cups) A large handful fresh basil Directions: Wash…
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Acorn Squash Soup with Kale and Bacon
Fall is coming and that means lots of pumpkin and squash recipes. This one is great with those early acorn squash. They are a bit smaller than other pumpkins, but have a great taste and mixed with kale and apples, you’ll have a lot of amazing flavours in this soup. You can easily make this ahead and just heat up the portion you are planning to eat. Ingredients: Serves 4-6 3 whole acorn squash 6 cloves garlic 6 shallots oil…
This weekend we went to Vinci’s Caffe & Gallery for lunch. It’s located near Olympic Village on 3rd Ave and Columbia in Vancouver. Vinci’s is run by a mother-daughter team and has a very “hyggelig” (Danish interpretation of Cozy) feel to it. It’s like a home away from home. Inspired by Italy, the food is simple but delicious. We had a mix of potato salad, vegetables, and ravioli as well as the vegetable curry soup. The coffee was really good…
Happy New Year! Have you made any new years resolutions? How are they going so far? We made a few and one of them is to eat more protein from vegetables instead of meat. So we have been researching bean, lentil, legumes etc. recipes and found a million different ones. So now we are in the process of trying some of these recipes to see what we like and then share them with you. Our first one, which by the…
Back from Taiwan with lots of great food experiences!
Wow, we have had the most amazing trip to Taiwan. We have travelled from Taipei in the north to Kending in the South and all the way on the west coast to visit family and friends. We have eaten everything from exclusive seafood dinners with the best tuna sashimi I have ever had to night market foods, eating meat, and other interesting items, on stick surrounded by crowds of people. I had an encounter with stinky tofu that will not…