Boyfriendly Cooking

Boyfriendly Cooking is about a fairly slim girl who lives with a hungry boy and tries to make good food that they both can enjoy in Ottawa, Ontario. (Note: The boy also cooks for the girl – plenty!)

Chickpea and Israeli cous cous soup

Last week I took the Vrtucar to run some errands at Home Depot and decided to shop at the Loblaws at Baseline / Woodroffe.  I heard months ago that their Kosher aisle had Israeli cous cous and there’s nothing like a little food-venture to spice up otherwise boring errands. ( So far, this Loblaws is [...]

Red cabbage soup

After braising half a head of red cabbage for Sunday’s roast, I was left with a huge honking half a cabbage in the fridge.  I scoured the web for some way to use it up in a soup.  The catch?  Finding a recipe that sounded like it might actually taste decent.  The phrase “cabbage soup” [...]

Mmmm Udon

After a tasty udon soup at Cafe Miga last night, I’ve got it in my head to either a) find fresh udon noodles in Ottawa or b) make my own udon noodles.  I’m hoping the little Korean grocer on Bank will have either fresh noodles (fingers crossed!) or the udon flour.  I found a nice [...]

Tomato-basil tortellini soup

Oh, how I wish I had taken a photo of this soup before we hoovered it down for dinner last night.  The basic recipe for this soup was in the most recent issue of Delicious in the ‘Tuesday night cooking’ section.  We made it on a Wednesday.  No matter.
I think the recipe from the magazine [...]

Cucumber and avocado soup

The Boyfriendly Cooking hiatus is over! Hurrah!
The boyfriendly household is expecting a long-term dinner (breakfast and lunch) guest arriving in September. That’s right, we’re cooking for three (and a hungry orange tabby). Suffice to say, foodblogging fell a bit to the wayside for several months, but now I’m back and hungry!
To get [...]

Warm Saturday chicken stew and dumplings

With a last name like “Stewart” you’d think I’d make stew a lot more often. Truth is, I never really liked stew. I still scrunch up my nose at the sound of the word. Let’s call this a thick soup and move on.
This week’s veggie basket included parsley root. Except, I [...]

Roasted golden beet soup

With two golden beets remaining from last week’s veggie box and leeks from this week’s delivery, I decided to use them for a beet soup. It had a really interesting flavour – sort of a mix between a carrot and parsnip soup. Very easy and in the end, very delicious.

Boyfriendly rating: 5/5
Roasted [...]

Kale and lentil soup encore

Sometimes a recipe is so good, you don’t even have to think twice.  With red kale in our veggie box this week, we relied on our trusty kale and lentil soup.  Sequels can be good!

Chili chili chili

I should have known it was going to snow today.  How?  When my internal chili alarm went off yesterday afternoon.  This little alarm tells me to start cooking warm meals and stock up on hot chocolate and marshmallows.
After a quick search, I found this easy chili recipe (sorry, not Veggie!) that’s flavoured with cocoa powder.   [...]

Sausage, kale and beluga lentil soup

This week’s vegetable box contained a big bunch of kale (Red Russian kale to be exact). I thought it would be a great addition to a hearty winter soup.
Kale is a real “super food” – according to Wikipedia it’s “considered to be one of the most highly nutritious vegetables, with powerful antioxidant properties and [...]