17 best recipes to close out summer
It’s my favourite time of year to shop at the local markets. The aisles are lined with baskets piled high with two-inch cucumbers and plump Roma tomatoes, inspiring me to add pickles and salsa to…
It’s my favourite time of year to shop at the local markets. The aisles are lined with baskets piled high with two-inch cucumbers and plump Roma tomatoes, inspiring me to add pickles and salsa to…
There is a landslide of school supplies taking over our family room floor. Classes start on Tuesday and it’s time to sharpen our focus for another school year. I’ve never been the mum who gleefully…
So Danny and I are back from a fantastic extended long weekend in London, England. It was everything we had hoped for and much more, largely in part to the beautiful weather that seemed to…
Like each of my monthly #EatSeasonal recipes, today’s post was inspired by a couple of ingredients that are coming into their own right about now. It wasn’t until I had worked out the kinks of…
Each spring, spinach is the first package of seeds I scatter over the earth in our backyard garden. It’s a hearty seedling and easy to grow, and brings a welcome touch of green to our menu…
It is going to be an incredible year for Canadian cookbooks. Not only will my new cookbook drop in October (details coming very soon) but there is an every growing list of exciting titles being…
The whole idea of “spring break” is rather laughable when it’s too cold to go outside and winter storms batter the house from all angles. Still, the children had five days off of school last week,…
At the prompting of a few friends and one sister, we’re watching The Kindness Diaries on Netflix as a family right now. One of our family ‘mottos’ is “Above all, be kind.” so the series…
I get asked so often how to use preserved lemons in cooking and baking, that I decided to expand my usual response into a post. From what I have noticed, home cooks tend to purchase a…
Sometime before Christmas I received an email from HungerFree, a division of World Vision: would I be interested in coming on board for their Quarterly project? I had heard about this nifty new subscription box…
The bright pink batter was a cause for alarm among my children at the start of a recent weekend pancake breakfast. They expressed their concern as a stack of vibrantly coloured pancakes steadily grew next to…
Today’s crunchy vegetable and rice noodle salad is a dish we’ve all been raving over recently at the dinner table. It might be the umami of the soy sauce or the salty shrimp that we’ve been craving. Or…
A regular brown package arrived via courier last week. Inside, all three hundred and four first pass pages of an uncorrected manuscript that is my next cookbook. The words, the photos and the recipes all compiled together…
My garden has been dormant for only a few weeks yet I already miss the crunchy, sweet carrots, bundles of kale and bouquets of fragrant herbs. Salad planning has to much more intentional now that…
We had our first snowfall this week and instead of melting into slush, it stuck around to transform our world into a winter wonderland. Suffice it to say, I’ve had that song stuck in my head…
So you’ve probably heard of making stuffing or dressing out of croutons – but have you considered the reverse? Why not turn leftover cubes of herb-scented stuffing into crispy croutons for topping soups and salads?…
I know, I know, another kale recipe. It might seem as though my recent posts are all part of a calculated recipe flow that balances cheesecake brownies and maple-glazed pork chops with nourishing soups and salads, but there…
Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian readers! It’s a long weekend from coast to coast and I hope you are enjoying the time with family and friends. This post was written and scheduled last week, so…
Last week, I gave in to the chilly weather and started wearing socks and sweaters. I simmered two pots of soup, made a pie and roasted off a few butternut squash for future baking projects. October arrived,…
When it comes to fall fruit in Quebec, apples reign supreme, from the early Jersey Mac to the late maturing Cortland. A wide wooden bowl on my kitchen table holds an ever-rotating assortment of Honeycrisp and…
“I miss Newfoundland.” Clara said to me just the other day. “Which part?” I asked “All of it.” She responded without hesitation. I knew exactly how she felt. I miss it too. I couldn’t let…
In my kitchen, batch cooking comes to the rescue time and time again, no matter the season. We tend to think of cooking in big batches as a fall and winter time-saving trick – great…
“If my life were a movie, mealtime in our home would be the gory part…” I wrote over eight years ago in an emotional post my hobby blog, Under the High Chair. I had a toddler and…
If you haven’t hit your grilling stride yet this summer, today’s recipe will be the incentive you need to fire up the coals. Let’s see, I’ve prepare it two…three…four times already and each time I…