Recipes

Warm Kale Salad with Lemon & Honey. A tasty side dish or light lunch all on it’s own, this warm baby kale salad is quick, easy, delicious and practically foolproof to prepare.

Chocolate Chip Vanilla Cream Whoopie Pies. Kid approved double chocolaty treats that are perfect for parties, packed lunches and after school snacks. Originally published Feb 2011. Today’s recipe is definitely kid approved. In fact, these double chocolate chip whoopie pies were made by my 13 year old daughter Olivia and her friends Cassia and Kathryn …

Screechin’ Peach Cobbler. An old fashioned favourite southern dessert made even better with the addition of dark rum to the ripe fresh peaches!

Vegetable Galette with Whipped Goat Cheese, Mint and Honey. A simple, savoury galette to serve as a starter course or as an elegant vegetarian lunch. Goat cheese is whipped with caramelized shallots and herbs, then topped with fresh vegetables, honey and mint, all wrapped up in a flaky homemade pastry

Lemon Drizzle Cake with Blueberries and Raspberries. A quick to make, simple recipe that harmoniously blends the complimentary flavours of lemon, blueberry and raspberry.

Steak Bacon Walnut Blue Cheese Caesar Salad – a bold collision of flavours and textures in an outstanding dinner salad that’s a complete meal in itself.

Grilled Balsamic Peach Pork Tenderloin – A cinnamon and spice rubbed pork tenderloin served with simply marinated and grilled balsamic peaches.

Strawberries & Cream Bread Pudding. An old fashioned, comfort food classic with a delicious summer twist, during strawberry season and beyond. Originally published Feb 2011. Regular readers of this blog will know that Spouse has a great fondness for bread pudding. With Valentine’s Day falling this week, I couldn’t think of a better dessert than …

Frittata Primavera. This recipe uses leftover pasta to create an entirely new brunch or lunch dish. So colourful, tempting and delicious! Originally published Feb 2008 Sunday brunch this week begins with leftover pasta prima vera and leftover baked ham that we had earlier this week. Spouses favorite brunch is a frittata and this one is …

Mango Orange Dressing on Prosciutto Apple Salad. Using pureed fruit as the base makes for an incredibly delicious, no fat added salad dressing.