Couscous, a North African dish of small steamed balls of semolina is considered to be a pasta. It’s also a grain my mom introduced to me back in the 90’s and one we eat as a side dish regularly. We grew up taught to always have a carb on our plate with our meal. This […]
BBQ Beef on a Bun makes you think summer doesn’t it?! It really does for us as we serve up this recipe every summer and get the whole neighborhood smelling our smoked, grilled beef. This is another one of those recipes I’ve been making for over 20 years and never documented. It’s like your mom or grandma […]
One of my favourite things to eat (of many) is well spring rolls. The kids and I enjoy making the fresh salad type rolls but my secret love is for fried spring rolls. Sometimes I visit a local Vietnamese restaurant during lunch and pick up an order of spring rolls all to myself. And eat […]
Beef Satay is the perfect, light summer meal. Use your favourite marinade or try this one the next time you make these. They literally melt in your mouth. Make sure you cut your beef thin and let it marinade for at least an hour or more depending the cut of beef you use. If you […]
My mom started buying me cookbooks in the late 80’s, so I blame her for my obsession. I have to blame someone right? It was around the same time she started entering her recipes, my recipes and any family member who was willing to give up a recipe into our local town cookbooks. I’ve got […]
Inspired by BC Blueberries, a bottle of bourbon I was recently given, a bottle of Guy Fieri Bourbon/Brown Sugar BBQ Sauce, and a Crosby Molasses contest, I decided to try and create a Blueberry BBQ Sauce. With molasses. I’ve never made a BBQ sauce with molasses before but I know it’s been done. The bourbon […]
Like it or not, Fall is around the corner. It’s the perfect time for pickling or canning extra vegetables from the garden. In fact I am wanting to make another batch of these tasty Quick Pickle Cucumbers since there are so many of the smaller cucumbers in the stores and markets. Everyone in our family […]
In my daily activities I come across many contests and challenges out there for food bloggers. What you learn along the way is you have to be picky and choosy with what you take on as recipe testing, buying ingredients, making notes, testing again until you get it right, photographing and the like all takes […]
My man loves his whiskey. But only once in a while. Our liquor cabinet holds quite a few bottles of liquor that rarely gets touched. Especially those little ones. You know how sometimes you buy a bottle of something and it has a little mini me bottle attached, well there are several mini me bottles […]
Who doesn’t love a stuffed burger? This simple Cheese Stuffed Burger is a great way to change up burger night with the family. Or friends. Tried making a version of a stuffed burger last year, following a luscious and tasty outing to Naina’s Kitchen here in Calgary. My burger was nothing to write home about […]
We are definitely not fair weather BBQ people. How can you be living in Canada where winter comes 6 months a year! Hubs and I both grew up in small Northern Canadian Towns, and as such you learn early that most winter weather is acceptable to BBQ, unless it’s blizzarding and/or below -10. At this […]
Consider this a healthy alternative to Hamburger Helper. It’s easy to make and so much better for you then the stuff you get in a box with an ingredients list full of words you don’t understand. Give this a try and you will be hooked on how easy it is to make. Also a great […]
You won’t believe how simple these taco bowls are to make! Might take you a couple times but rest assured you got this! A custard cup is all you need to shape the flour tortilla wrap. That, a little time in the oven, a little extra taco seasoning (homemade or store bought) and some cooking […]
I was recently at a private event here in Calgary for Jelly Modern Doughnuts. It was an interactive evening where we got to decorate doughnuts and as an ice breaker we were asked to create a new doughnut. Sounds easy enough right? Well then we were told to go around and ask other attendees what […]
Kids activity nights require quick meals. I had some leftover roast beef (sliced thin) from a recent roast dinner and had been wanting to do a Vietnamese Beef style Pho (or my rendition of it) for awhile. Of course I decided to make the soup on an activity night and did not have the time […]
3 out of 4 of us really enjoy a good burger and I am proud my kids are not uber fussy about all the things we put in the burgers. They save the fussiness for the burger preparation “ketchup, cheese and some mayo please” is all they like on their burgers although they boy is […]
When you hear double bacon burger, what comes to mind?! Double patties, double the bacon? For me it’s usually double the bacon. That’s exactly what we did with this burger. We’ve doubled the bacon by adding cooked bacon on the burger and mincing some bacon while still raw and adding it to the burger before […]
One thing we love to do as a family is fondue. Husband used to fondue as a kid, I was introduced to fondue in the 90’s, and currently own at least 4 or 5 fondue pots. A fondue variety is so much fun, especially when it includes broth, cheese and chocolate all in one night. […]
I make a couple different versions of chili. When I was single my favourites were Veggie Chili, and a Four Bean Chili. Enter the meat eater I married, and this is now one of our family favourites since it is slow cooked all day in the crockpot allowing the flavours to marry creating the most […]
Steak has always been one of my favourite things. My dad would grill it up on occasion, but it would always be the same cut of steak and have to much of the same barbecue sauce added every time. This my friends is what food memories are all about – ahhh the good ole days! […]
Third times a charm? Good thing I’ve had 5 workouts in 4 days to make myself feel better about these pizza experiments. This will be the last pizza submission for this week as I am getting pizza’d out. However having said that I have at least 4 more ideas spinning through my head for pizzas […]
Spring has definitely sprung and today would have been a great night to BBQ. However I had some stew meat to use up so I decided to pull out the good old reliable slow cooker perhaps one last time until the Fall and make a nice hearty beer infused Beef Carbonnade, Crockpot. It’s a Belgian […]
Simple Lasagna with 4 cheeses (provolone, ricotta, parmesan, mozzarella) is easier to make then you think. Do not be intimidated. Get your ingredients ready and put aside a little time (love) to make the lasagna and you will be so happy you did….there’s nothing like a home made lasagna. Right now my dd does not like lasagna but that […]
We love burgers and these Tex Mex Burgers are yummy. Having smaller hands I like to be able to hold onto my burger, easily, and it not be so big that it’s all meat. It’s all about the fixin’s for me. A couple years back (wow 5 already!) we started a quest to try & test as […]
I admittedly have never made a Bolognese Sauce. How crazy is that?! The family loves my basic ground beef spaghetti sauce and I rarely change it up. Time to break out of the mold as we encourage new flavours and food experiences. As I was preparing my weekly menu, I came across Jamie Oliver’s recipe for […]
Delicious beef soup on a cold, fall/winter day comes in the form of our Beef Minestrone Soup in the Crockpot. Many variations of Minestrone soup are available, this is one version we enjoy. We prefer to cook our pasta and add it separately since when it sits in the soup over night (leftovers) it tends […]
This Cabbage Rolls, Crockpot recipe stems from my ethnic background/heritage (a blend of Ukrainian, German and Romanian). There are a few recipes my mom really excelled at when I was a wee thing and they included anything surrounding our heritage (Holubtsi-cabbage rolls), Borscht, Sauerkraut-fermenting somewhere in the house and Pierogi’s). There were all kinds of German baking […]
I’m not sure why I haven’t posted this roasted chicken with sausages recipe before. Made it for dinner guests in the past..making it for dinner guests this weekend. It’s so simple and rustic everyone ends up thinking you slaved for hours making it. Finishing this dish with a Balsamic Drizzle gives it a pleasing appearance […]
Beef Keftas, or as I like to call them, meat on a stick or stick food, are a new way to eat a burger. I mean really, you are taking what is seasoned burger and wrapping it around a stick. Kind of brings you back to the cave man days, but really what a concept. […]
