This filling is the perfect way to use up leftover brisket. (Looking for a brisket recipe? Check out canadianliving.com.) Enjoy these as boiled dumplings in soup for a satisfying meal.
This vibrant recipe for Leek and Potato Soup features hints of cheese and bacon to round out a tested classic. For a vegetarian version, simply replace chicken stock with vegetable stock, and omit the bacon.
Serve with soup or by itself. This is the most wonderful grill cheese sandwich ever! I serve it to my family, and to company who come for lunch and everyone loves it and wants the recipe.
Hearty family favourites such as soups and stews are best eaten with a bit of crunch on the side. Enter our Blue Cheese Coleslaw, the ideal accompaniment to, well, almost everything in your winter recipe repertoire.
We've tweaked the classic French dish by turning it into a hearty soup that's faster and easier than the traditional braised recipe. If you don't have redskinned potatoes, substitute with yellow-fleshed spuds.
Brilliant red and filled with the spices of the country it represents, this soup is a definite crowd-pleaser - perfect for this big-batch recipe. Of course, you can always just halve the ingredients if you want to make less.
This traditional pea soup is the ultimate in Quebec-style comfort food. Look for an unsmoked ham hock in the meat department of your local supermarket. If you can't find one, a smoked ham hock will work – just reduce the salt in the recipe to 1/4 tsp.
This is a grilled cheese sandwich you will never forget! Goes great along with a bowl of soup, or all on it's own. This recipe will take you back to that old childhood feeling of a good country meal cooked by Mom!
At Empty Bowls, an annual fund-raising event held at the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, each patron gets to choose and keep a bowl made by a distinguished potter and sample soups prepared by the top chefs in the city. It benefits the Anishnawbe Street Patrol, which offers help to people who need food and shelter. One generous participant is Simon Kattar, the chef-proprietor of la Carte Kitchen catering, who has contributed this zesty recipe to Great Soup, Empty Bowls (Whitecap, 2002, $19.95), which also raises funds for the street patrol.
This healthy take on fried rice mixes brown rice with a variety of tasty veggies. Shiitake mushroom stems are tougher than the delicate caps but packed with flavour, so reserve them for homemade vegetable stock. Use the stock as a base for mushroom soup or substitute for the vegetable broth in this recipe.
