Recipes

This is a dish that is so delicious and special, but it is ridiculously easy. Lobster Tail and Linguine dinner is a favourite of ours and you will love how easy it is to put together.  If you have some friends coming over for New Year’s Eve dinner, this is…

I enjoy adding pumpkin to a lot of meals. Soups, breads and sauces are great examples of how pumpkin can add vitamins A & C, potassium and fiber to easy dishes. On this night, pumpkin was added to make a sweet dessert. As most spontaneous creations in the kitchen, this…

Whether you are a traditional mama or a new and modern mama, you undoubtedly have some traditions you are making as an annual occasion with your children. This Christmas I did some of Grandma MOE’s traditional recipes. She let me take the reins this year to test out some favourites!

Your favourite banana bread recipe.
Add Nutella.

Pesto is a great sauce for pasta and it’s a great change from tomato sauce. In order to make our pesto healthier, I make it with baby spinach leaves instead of basil leaves. At home we call it “Popeye Pasta” and the kids go crazy for it!

There are very few times that I voluntarily want to turn on my oven in the dead of summer. We eat cold meals often, eat outside in the shade, and rarely have big hot meals. But there is one thing that we always eat, in the winter or the summer. Pizza!

As you can see by my go-to chocolates, I am strictly a milk chocolate lover. That is, with the exception of one fine white chocolate dessert. Grandma MOE used to make this for family and friends every holiday season in a beautiful chocolate wreath mould. I started the tradition last year, but this year I was a little late in the game. So I thought, why not introduce you to it for Valentine’s Day?

Growing up, my mother would make a feast of a brunch every Sunday after mass. Eggs were always on the menu, and more often than not, Italian Eggs were the main dish.

Raising three children with healthy appetites can sometimes be challenging. Along with my husband and I, our dinners have to be,not just delicious, but available in a large quantity. So how do I manage? Well, I try to make 2-3 dinners a night when I’m cooking. One for that night, and two for freezing. And the things I freeze are not just one-night meals, they usually are big enough for two meals at least.

In my family, meat is BIG. That, and pasta. But sometimes, I’m all meat and pasta-ed out and I need something soothing and yummy. A couple of years ago I found a perfect recipe for butternut squash soup by Kathy Maister.