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I have been looking for a hearty and delicious whole wheat breadmaker bread recipe and finally found one I like! It comes from the out-of-print book: Canada’s Best Bread Machine Baking Recipes. Such a shame because I get the best breadmaker recipes from this book. Above you can see how great this bread is as French Toast. Here is […]
Tomatoes are ripening around here so it is a great time to make some homemade salsa! Now I made this salsa with half-priced store-bought tomatoes that were ultra ripe so you do not need home-grown to make it but imagine how good it would be? SUZIE’S SALSA RECIPE To make my life easier I used […]
Those who subscribe to my newsletter may recognize this cookie jar! I sometimes have problems with my iron levels so my mother-in-law Lorraine suggested I make her tea biscuits and have them with molasses which are high in iron. Well you know what is also high in iron? Blueberries! So I compromised and made her […]
Last year I made strawberry rhubarb jam and it was a bit of a fiasco. This year for my first jam (I hope there will be more) I wanted to try making a freezer jam. My mom insists it is the best kind of jam in the world. How could I not try it? I […]
This who subscribe to my newsletter may recognize that glass bowl holding the peaches! This is my first panna cotta. This is also my recipe. Yup, I have been a mad scientist in the kitchen lately. Why? Everybody seems to make the same type of panna cotta (which sounds a bit boring) and I really wanted […]
Recently the charity Meal Exchange wrote and informed me that Saturday August 7th is National Barbecue Day! Canadians are invited to register their own backyard barbecue parties to bring their friends and neighbors together for a good cause and potentially win the trip of a lifetime with Westjet! In honour of National Barbecue Day I made this grilled veggie salad. Unfortunately […]
We had a dark, stormy and unusually cool day yesterday so I decided it was time to experiment in the kitchen. With the temperatures much lower than “scorching” I could finally turn on the oven. Believe it or not I used one portobello mushroom to make this entire pizza! My hands are small but they are […]
Have I ever mentioned before that rice used to scare me? Rice was my nemesis FOREVER! I finally gave up years ago and bought a rice cooker and that was that. For years! I just thought it was physically impossible for me to make a good batch of rice. Then I watched Nigella make a […]
Last year I came up with this recipe for my Banana Mango Smoothie. I can not leave a recipe alone so I tweaked it and made some changes! I am not really into super sweet stuff so what was missing from this mango to make it perfect was a little sourness from some fresh lemon […]
The dark and drearies have returned to Nova Scotia so baking was no longer out of the question. Even though the humidity is still high, I braved to bake my favourite treat in the whole world for two different birthday celebrations. I altered the original recipe which you can find here to turn it into a […]
