Recipes

Strawberry & Rhubarb Fool from “The Lighthouse Picnic”. A simple, old fashioned, creamy, flavourful dessert that celebrates the best local ingredients.

Upside Down Peach Crumble Pie. A peach crumble in pie form using the crumble mixture as a the crust. Delicious with a scoop of good vanilla ice cream as a terrific summertime dessert. With some big, ripe, juicy summer peaches in hand, I set out innocently enough to make one of the desserts I look …

  This tasty cookie comes 100% kid approved; in fact I didn’t make them, they were the work of my soon to be 12 year old son who, along with his sister have become quite good little bakers in their own right. This one is a pretty simple recipe and lots of fun to make …

Strawberry Mango Crumb Cake. An ideal summer brunch coffee cake with a buttery crumble topping and sweet pockets of strawberry and mango baked right in.

Grilled Tomato Mozzarella Pizza – this is a great basic grilled pizza recipe that you can make any number of additions to or enjoy just as it is, with the quality, simple ingredients speaking for themselves. In the never ending quest to make as many different meals as possible on the summer grill as possible, …

Grilled Kung Pao Chicken Burgers – something spicy and deliciously different from the backyard grill. Delicious on grilled flat breads too. We practically live off the grill during the summer months and I am always inventing new ways to make a meal on the back deck. While I was making a quick batch of my …

This Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake uses a buttery toffee frosting for one of the richest, most indulgent cakes you will ever sample. A terrific celebration cake, especially for a large group. I was feeling a little experimental after enjoying that Sticky Toffee Pudding last week and wanted to try a version of my favourite buttercream frosting …

  I have to admit that I’ve become extremely fond at breakfast time of the Quick Tomato Compote that was recently featured in a different brunch recipe on this blog and have been looking for other ways to enjoy this bright, fresh condiment in other breakfast ideas. This one is a different idea that is …

    This experimental twist on baklava was the result of trying to find a use for some phyllo pastry that was leftover from making my Phyllo Chicken Prosciutto Margherita. (Look for that recipe in the coming days) The only nuts I had left in the house were salted some toasted cashews, so in they went …

Boston Cream Pie Okay, so I cut this one a bit prematurely before the vanilla custard mousse was properly chilled but as sometimes happens, my anticipation got the best of me. I had been thinking of making a version of Boston Cream Pie based upon, as some of our Facebook Page members guessed, the one …