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.

Brown Butter Banana Madeleines. Light and tender little banana cakes with the nutty flavour of brown butter. Perfect for lunchboxes or afternoon tea!

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.

Lime Salsa Quinoa Salad. This delicious quinoa salad is bursting with fresh healthy flavour & can be served warm as a side dish or cold as lunch salad. Makes a great picnic item too.   Originally published April, 2018. This terrific, colourful, healthy lime salsa quinoa salad side dish was a bit of a leftover …

This Rum Sauce a.k.a. Rum & Butter Sauce or Rum Caramel Sauce goes by a few names. Either way it is an outstandingly delicious addition to  desserts like bread pudding, apple pie or ice cream! I recently updated our old family favourite recipe for Rum Raisin Bread Pudding and part of the update was the …