A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
We have a few pots on our deck for herbs and pepper plants, and my oregano and sage are going a bit bananas. We had picked up a couple steaks from the butchers and I was trying to think of
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Tonight I made scotch eggs and thought I’d pull out an old recipe and make my homemade ketchup into some curry ketchup. There are sugar-free ketchups out there, but sometimes it’s nice to have a touch of homemade. To make
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Last night I held a post-Christmas dinner, instead of the usual turkey, I wanted to do a beef roast. I would have liked to grab a prime rib, but couldn’t find any, so I did a striploin roast with a
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We grew peppers this year. Bushel of Fire, Black Pearl, and Gypsy Peppers. The Bushel of Fire peppers are like a small Thai pepper (2″ long maximum) and the Gypsy peppers (very firm, 3″ long) are like mild spicy pepper
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I was watching some cooking show where a country singer runs around the country eating steak. I don’t remember the name of it, and I had a hard time watching it because I couldn’t stand his accent. But I’m glad
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I made a duck on the bbq today, and it will definitely be the only way I do duck from now on! But as I didn’t really marinate it, I wanted to do up a quick sauce to go with
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This weekend I was able to convince the Hubby to take me to the bookstore and let me roam. Besides a weakness for scifi, I have one for cookbooks. This time it was Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey. I was flipping
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So it was just Thanksgiving this past weekend in Canada. I think turkey dinner is one of my favourite meals. Not only eating it, but making it. I have the turkey down pat and after getting the method of spatchcocking
Read moreSo I was watching an episode of Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey and he was in Bali having a seafood dish prepared by a Swedish chef. And the dish looked amazing! After a bit of digging and mistyping words I
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Have ever bought one of those pre-peeled tubs of garlic cloves. Where you think you’ll have no problem using it up because “you LOVE garlic!”, yet you don’t own a restaurant and aren’t in the habit of eating 10 cloves
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