A Newfoundland Saltbox Christmas – Happy Tibb’s Eve! Our latest gingerbread house pays homage to the day before Christmas Eve, traditionally called Tibb’s Eve here in Newfoundland. In some parts it is known as Tips Eve or even Tipsy Eve. Popular opinion on it’s origin goes back to when men made their own home brew …
Lemon Melting Moments are melt in your mouth shortbread cookies that put the simple in simply delicious.
Bacon Chicken Salad with Creamy Spicy Dijon Dressing – maybe the best use of leftover chicken yet. Use it in sandwiches, wraps or atop a garden salad! This Bacon Chicken Salad is a different take on a club sandwich and one of my favorite lunches. We also often serve them in mini versions at party …
Lemon Graham Crumble Bars. A delicious combination of lemon and coconut with the flavour bonus of graham cracker crumbs incorporated into the crumble layers.
These buttery spicy Ginger Orange Shortbread Cookies are terrific on their own or you can bump them up a notch with the addition of a creamy orange frosting to sandwich them together. Cream together: 1 cup butter 1/2 cup powdered sugar (i.e. icing sugar or confectioners sugar) 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 tbsp molasses Sift …
Orange Cinnamon Roll Cookies – a delicious combination of citrus and cinnamon flavours in a buttery cookie you will fall in love with. Delicious with or without the optional glaze.
Another tasty little hors d’ouevre for the party buffet table. These make good use of frozen puff pastry, some sweet roasted red peppers and cream cheese and little slivers of prosciutto in this tasty little sandwich puff that’s bursting with flavor. For dozens of other party food and hors d’ouevre recipes check out our Facebook …
Mango Cookie Bars – an exotic twist on a crumble cookie bar with a filling flavoured with five spice mix for an unusually delicious and fragrant combination. Here’s an exotic twist on a crumble bar cookie with fragrant vanilla, mango and spices all in in a buttery crumble. Delicious. Unusually, it uses Chinese Five spice …
Curry Beef Triangles. Based upon a favourite Chinese restaurant appetizer, I bake these instead of frying and turn them into party finger food.
Honey Dijon Glazed Boneless Wings. Easy sweet & tangy white meat “boneless” wings. Quick to cook, less messy and much easier to eat than traditional wings. We served these at a little gathering of friends to celebrate my birthday last weekend and they were a bit hit. These would be an ideal finger food for …