The not-daughter turns 21 tomorrow, it blows the mind – so I’ve been pondering options for this. Recently, the kid decided to go vegetarian – not an easily workable lacto-ovo or even a pescatarian, nope, not my girl, she decided to go vegan.
So I’m sitting here trying to decide if I should just buy […]
As I told family and friends on my facebook page last night, I think everyone has one person that you end up getting cooking inspiration from. For me, that’s my mom – the person who started me on my cookbook addiction and encouraged me to try different foods.
During a slow point in […]
The event was a good time spent with friends despite being miserably cold and wet. Once again I prepared too much food but it meant leftovers when we got home. Thorsteinn seemed to enjoy the pulled pork and the stir fry wraps the most. I was very disappointed in the flavour […]
Much as I said earlier, I decided to take a page from my belt-sister Maiwen and cook ahead for this upcoming camping event. I sat down and planned a meal schedule including biscuits for breakfast – then the 32C weather hit. There is no way I’m going to bake in that heat […]
Seeing the ease with which my friends Gann and Maiwen have their dinner at camping events made me stop and think about how I could duplicate it. Maiwen makes a variety of hot wraps which generally smell fantastic – they’re frozen ahead and reheated on the barbecue. That got me thinking about what […]
The hubby and I went for supper at my parents this weekend past, Mom made strawberry shortcake for dessert. I’ve always been fond of strawberry shortcake because my family uses tea biscuits instead of those yellow pieces of sponge you get at the grocery store. My joy in seeing tea biscuits lead to […]
(Edited Nov 26, 2017)
These are the number 2 of my holiday favourites but I love dates – I remember many a Christmas that my mom has made these. Mum says this recipe originated with Teresa but Teresa had no memory of that. My Memere made these, […]
What could be more Canadian than Buttertarts? In honour of that, I figured I’d share this with you on Canada Day.
I begged, I pleaded, I grovelled and my mom finally wrote down my maternal grandmother’s buttertart recipe. When I saw it, I laughed out loud because the recipe was almost ‘medieval’ in the way it […]
Alas, this dish isn’t really medieval because of the inclusion of a few non-medieval ingredients – it is a variation of a well loved lamb dish that had to be adapted because several people I know don’t like lamb. It’s also exceedingly popular with most of my friends and family so I’m including it. […]
I can’t really take credit for the popularity of this dish in the shires – it was first made by Ja’ida for a cooks guild meeting. It was so popular I looked into making it myself but I wasn’t happy with base recipe that I had to work with so I changed it to suit […]