Recipes

Perfect Pizza Sauce. The perfect sweet, spicy balance of tomato, herbs and garlic in a pizza sauce that complements any of your favourite toppings.

Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins. An easy oven baked recipe, made with just a few simple ingredients, but sure to be the star of any coffee break or weekend brunch. Originally published  March 2011. One of my uncomplicated guilty pleasures is a simple nutmeg scented cake donut, fresh from the bakery. I have made cake donuts …

15 Bean Sausage Chili. Italian sausage adds plenty of flavour and seasoning to this unusually delicious chilli recipe variation that’s also chock full of a healthy bean mix.

Toffee Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies – a shortbread-like thumbprint cookie dotted with bits of toffee candy and filled with rich chocolate. For over 200 more tried and tested cookie recipes, visit our Pinterest Cookie Board. Spouse got the idea for these tasty little thumbprint cookies from a picture in a magazine. We decided to use our own …

Easy Turkey Pot Pie Today’s recipe is a leftover legend. This great pot pie, aside form the readily available frozen puff pastry on top, was completely composed of leftovers from a turkey and roasted vegetable dinner what we had the night before. If you don’t have leftover turkey, one of those supermarket rotisserie chickens is another quick shortcut to …

Today’s recipe is my own twist on French Onion Soup, which is a big favorite at our house. We start with a very good beef broth for these types of soups but even more important is the slow gentle caramelization of the onions to build maximum flavor. This is not a step to be rushed …

Here is a great recipe for a snow day. I insist on local vegetables for my soups whenever possible and this one takes advantage of some sweet gems of carrots from Fagan’s Farm in CBS. This is a very easy, delicious and healthy starter course or a perfect winter day lunch. 5 lbs carrots cut …

Spicy Mango Orange Grilled Shrimp. The orange mango puree in this recipe is very versatile. 

Almond butter cookies are a great, delicious alternative to peanut butter cookies. These almond butter cookies are what my Mom would call a “Cup of Tea Cookie”. Meaning obviously, that it is an ideal treat to be enjoyed with your favourite steaming cup of relaxing tea. This one is soft and slightly chewy, with a …

French Baguette. Authentic baguette has only 4 ingredients; water sea salt, yeast and flour. This recipe shows how to make perfect crusty baguette and mini baguette for sandwich rolls. One of my favourite breads to bake is an authentic French Baguette. I like to make them mini size as pictured here to use in great …