Recipes

Sheet Pan Cod with Roasted Kale and Green Goddess Dressing. A bright, healthy and utterly delicious seafood dinner ready from the oven in 20 minutes! 

Vanilla Caramel Pastries a.k.a. Caramel Flakies. A copycat version of the classic Canadian snack cake from Vachon. Easy to make using frozen puff pastry.

Leftover chicken spaghetti with bacon may be the perfect early week meal, which uses leftovers from Sunday dinner.

Chocolate Gelato. An intensely chocolate version of this Italian Ice Cream that can be served inside a profiterole shell with chocolate sauce.

Strawberry Vanilla Butter Cake. A simple old fashioned vanilla butter cake with easy vanilla frosting plus diced strawberries get combined with the frosting at the centre. Simple but delicious.

Thin Crust Pulled Pork Pizza. A tasty thin crust version that uses leftover pulled pork and a quick cooking fresh pizza sauce. Amazingly delicious.

Easy Beef Stroganoff. This version packs more flavour than most traditional recipes. Smoked paprika and Dijon mustard provide some of that amped up piquant taste. Beef stroganoff was one of my early favourite dishes, when I was just learning to cook. I came form a very meat and potatoes kind of cooking family, so this …

Chocolate Orange Truffle Cake with Chocolate Cointreau Glaze. An easy to make, one bowl, homemade chocolate cake gets filled with simple chocolate orange whipped truffle filling and covered in a Cointreau infused chocolate glaze. Here is another offering in my ongoing love affair with anything combining chocolate and orange. This is an idea I came …

Toutons Benedict. Newfoundland Fried Bread “Toutons” form the base of this delicious Eggs Benedict version with lightly fried baked ham and a summer savoury flavoured Hollandaise Sauce.

Simnel Cake. A British Easter tradition. A light fruitcake with a layer of marzipan baked into the centre, then topped with a traditional marzipan decoration.