Homemade hummus is not hard to make and is absolutely worth it! I will take you through my favourite recipe and show you how to make it step-by-step. I used my Instant Pot to cook the chickpeas but you can easily use canned chickpeas instead. The Secret! Hummus is often made with raw garlic but […]
Anna Olson’s Chocolate Brownies
I am super excited to announce that Anna Olson’s show Bake has been renewed for another season! Also, I have been watching her videos on this great site called Grokker which is where I discovered this recipe for her chocolate brownies. When I saw her secret ingredient, I absolutely had to make them! It was […]
Salad Love’s Chorizo, Green Olives & Whole-Wheat Pasta
My journey into the cookbook Salad Love: 260 Crunchy, Savory, and Filling Meals You Can Make Every Day by David Bez published by Penguin Random House Canada has officially begun! As promised in my reveal of the cookbook, my first recipe was one with which I felt extremely confident about the flavours. A lot of the recipes have […]
Lemon Cake Batter Waffles
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President’s Choice Hot Chocolate Cookies
Now where on earth did I get the idea to make hot chocolate cookies? The “inspiration” came from PC’s The Decadent Chocolate Chip Cookies Flavour Hot Chocolate Mix. My store was out of my favourite hot chocolate so I picked this up instead. Just like PC’s The Decadent Chocolate Chip Cookie, there was an overwhelming flavour […]
Easy & Elegant Shortbread Cookies
Reg and I were invited to a belated Robby Burns birthday celebration and I promised to bring shortbread cookies. They are not always the most exciting of cookies but there is some real magic that can go into making them. First, I wanted them to be more than just circles of flour, butter and sugar […]
Latvian Best Bean Soup
Click here for printer-friendly recipe January 30th is my mom’s birthday. I have been wanting to honour her so much with a dish she would be proud of and found a recipe for Best Bean Soup in the Latvian Cooking cookbook she sent me years ago, right after I started this foodie journey. This recipe is […]
Shannon’s Mouth-Watering Stuffed Mushrooms
My sister Shannon has been making these Mouth-Watering Stuffed Mushrooms forever! They are so good, we all love them. She normally makes them with cayenne for a kick. I was watching her make these during the holidays this year on Facebook and knew I had to make them too. I could not go another year without her mushrooms! […]
G.H. Cretors Simply Salted Popcorn Lasagna
G.H. Cretors Organic Popped Corn contacted me recently with a recipe for Popcorn Bark and suggest I try their Simply Salted fluffy organic popcorn to go with it. We had tried their their flavoured popcorn which we LOVED so I thought, what the heck? Their recipe sounded like fun and I already knew that I was impressed with their all-natural, non-GMO […]