A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
I had this recipe on my old food blog (Goodgrub) and decided to dig it up as I was craving a comfort food, and chicken stew and dumplings fit the bill! It’s very easy to make as you can throw
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Yesterday we got the first big snowfall we’ve had all winter. We’ve had the odd flurries, but the forecast was for 4 to 8 inches. It started at 10:00am and by noon there was already 3 inches on the ground.
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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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Clafoutis is basically a frittata or omelette, a big fluffy frittata packed with all sorts of goodies. As with omelette’s, anything goes. Fill with all veggies or seafood, your favourite brie or some jalapeno’s. Clafoutis makes a great breakfast or
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Last night I was going to make a simple dish of pork chops in wine, from a Greek cookbook I have. Then I ended up chatting with a girlfriend who wanted to make coq au vin and I ended up
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I’m not a fan of pork. I’m talking about “pork” pork, vs. bacon here. I don’t really like pork roasts, loin, or chops. But to appease the Hubby, who is a fan, we bought a sack of pork chops from Costco
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So this year for my Thanksgiving dinner, I decorated the table with white mini pumpkins (5-6″ size). I then used them for decorating the doorway at Halloween. They were super cute, but were destined for the garbage. So a quick
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It was one of those glorious Saturday mornings where I got up before the Hubby and was able to watch my cooking shows, before he got on and played hours of Destiny. Don’t get me wrong, I love watching the
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This past weekend we took a road trip with some friends and one of our stops was for a Mexican meal. We were chatting and our friend mentioned how she loved the stuffed poblanos and I told her about the
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I am a huge fan of duck. I love it baked, Asian BBQ, in tacos, even burgers. Yesterday we hit the local Asian grocery store and I was able to pick up an utility duck for only $10. Considering ducks
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