Kell's Kitchen

Saving the World – One Chick Pea at a Time

So yesterday was Meatless Monday – a little experiment for our family. We don’t consume a lot of meat and have experimented with vegetarianism too. To be truthful, after an extremely busy hockey-soccer-birthday party-hockey-soccer weekend, I was too pooped to shop and wanted to use up some stuff in my fridge. As such, dinner became [...]

Random Acts of Kindness

The weather in these parts has been crazy this winter. Exceptionally mild fall, fairly green Christmas and then – a DUMP of snow, freezing rain and YUCK. Yesterday, after a night of snow, then rain, then freezing temperatures meant that most cars were covered in a thick layer of ice. The sounds of scraping, cursing [...]

Hintonbrew Stew

It’s January. It’s cold. It’s aching shoulders from too much shoveling, numb fingers from scraping windows, chapped lips and drippy nose weather. Time to get down to some good old-fashioned comfort food cooking. I did the fancy “apps” and dips over the holidays. I rolled cookies and made squares and decorated shortbread. Now? I just [...]

Dinner is Served – Or How I the Survived Arena Shuffle

Well, it happened. Three kids in hockey, and we spent our first weekend truly shuffling from one arena to the next, stinky gear and all. I knew this would happen. People are often surprised when I tell them all 3 darlings are playing hockey this year. “Wow, you must be crazy!” is a familiar comment. [...]

Take it or Leave it; This Ain’t No Restaurant

I was possibly influenced by the fleeting full moon, or hadn’t had enough sleep last night, or WHATEVER, but I was not in the mood for the whining and complaining about dinner today. It started on the walk home from school – “What’s for dinner, Mom?” This was my answer: “Geez, 950 million people NEVER [...]

Pie in the Sky – Father and Daughter Bond Over Pastry

The sun had returned and the rain clouds were gone. Television was turned off and the kids shooed outside. A trip to the market was in order and after a little cajoling and prodding – husband and daughter were off. I had hopes of some yummy strawberries and maybe some garlic, but what I received [...]

Que Soba, Soba

Ugh, it was approaching pick-up time from school yesterday and I was hungry and thinking about dinner. I was out and about with a friend in Chinatown and racking my brain for ideas. I asked what she was making and decided on the spot to copy her. She’s pretty handy in the kitchen, so I [...]

Whoops, there it is!

I was too tired to cook in my own kitchen the other night, so off we went to one of our favourite neighbourhood haunts. My husband and I enjoyed a nice cold beer, and chatted about our day as the kids were occupied colouring and playing tic-tac-toe on the paper placemat provided by the restaurant. [...]

Sodium Slow-Down…

The lentil soup recipe was requested by my brother-in-law who wants to cut down on his sodium intake. And, really, most of us consume WAY TOO MUCH as it is, so we can all benefit from a little less now and again. Omitting meats, salted butter, canned lentils and using sodium-reduced stock go a long [...]

Why I Do What I Do…

I was scanning Twitter today and I came across a post by @SimplyFood( http://tinyurl.com/6fekqsr )asking to submit a picture of someone who inspires you to cook. I thought of some chefs I have read about or seen on tv. Then I thought about the only reason I cook – my family. If I wasn’t married [...]