Once again, just as with my perfect baked potato, I need to preface this post by saying the term “perfect” is completely subjective. I think even more so when it comes to steak because everyone seems to like it differently. I have friends who just sprinkle the steak with grill seasoning and fire it up […]
Cooking Tutorial: The Perfect Baked Potato
Sweets for my Sweetie
Tutorial, Recipe & Tons of Drama: Suzie’s Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
It’s the weekend so pass the popcorn!
You know, I have never been a popcorn fanatic. When I would go to the movies with my family I always got licorice instead. Until I discovered Kernels‘ Dill Pickle Popcorn. That changed EVERYTHING. And now you can get these flavour packets (and I know, super bad for me but I really don’t eat popcorn […]
Tutorial: Homemade Sundried Tomato Pizza Pesto Sauce
Cooking Tutorial: How to make roasted garlic
I think the only thing that smells as savory and beautiful than homebaked bread is garlic roasting in the oven. I make roasted garlic all of the time and try to have it on hand for pasta sauces, salad dressings, mix it up with butter or olive oil and slather it on bread…happiness. Roasted garlic […]
Basic Foodie Tutorial: Cookies in Seven Easy Steps
Recipe: Banana Mango Smoothie
It’s sunny out today (shocking) and I hear we are supposed to get fantastic weather this weekend and mangoes were on sale…so of course I started to think about smoothies! When it’s warm, I live on smoothies. Sometimes it’s the only thing I can have when the temperatures skyrocket because I am not turning on […]
Tutorial: How to make homemade muffins
On this Earth Day in Nova Scotia it’s dark, wet and dreary. The perfect day to make a cup of tea and indulge in a beautiful strawberry margarita muffin. My own invention. Yup, this strawberry-inspired recipe is going in the cookbook too. I think I’m onto to something here! There are a couple of general […]