Turnip Puff
A Turnip Puff is the absolute best way to eat a turnip (or rutabaga)! It’s a lightly sweet baked root vegetable dish, both creamy and fluffy, with a crunchy buttered breadcrumb topping. A Turnip Puff is traditionally served for Canadian Thanksgiving or Christmas, but there’s no need to wait for a holiday. This is an…
Friday Night Cooking Class/Saltine Toffee Bark
Saltine Toffee Bark This Saltine Toffee Bark was first introduced to me by my friend Carla. She brought over a lovely bag of this decadent bark for me to try. The three of us quickly consumed the sweet confection. WOW, was it good!!! Then to make it our own we added the sprinkling of pecans….
Chicken Chorizo Paella
Chicken Chorizo Paella This Chicken Chorizo Paella is a request from a great friend named Shelley. Sorry, it has taken me a while to get this to you but I wanted to get a real paella pan. I did some research on paella and found out these five facts for making a great paella. How…
Strawberry Blueberry Crisp
Strawberry Blueberry Crisp Ken bought a few too many strawberries for the baby shower, that I had candy-coated, so he decided to do a Strawberry Blueberry Crisp using my all-time favorite crisp topping. It turned out great. This recipe is great any time of year but fabulous with fresh local sweet berries. I am eating…
Baby Shower Popcorn
Baby Shower Popcorn We welcomed another wee bundle of joy into our neighborhood this past weekend!! Another little girl. I cohosted with a neighbor and did the dessert table. I made Baby Shower Popcorn, little glasses out of mason jars with ribbons and buttons (cute as a button) for water and lemonade. In addition, I…
Cauliflower Lobster Soup
Cauliflower Lobster Soup Here is a really good springtime soup. I had some leftover lobster and a head of cauliflower so I created this Cauliflower Lobster Soup as we had no dinner planned!! I had to come up with something quick!! Thinking we had leftovers in the fridge from Easter dinner I wasn’t worried, but…
Lobster Deviled Eggs
Lobster Deviled Eggs I came up with this Lobster Deviled Eggs idea to bump plain old deviled eggs up a notch. Either you love deviled eggs or you don’t. We are all a big fan especially Amber. She just plain loves eggs!! These were great at Easter but can be served anytime. Don’t overcook your…
Friday Night Cooking Class/Strawberry Chocolate Eclairs
Friday Night Cooking Class/Strawberry Chocolate Eclairs Friday Night Cooking Class/Strawberry Chocolate Eclairs, introducing Annika. She is another friend from school who loves to cook. The eclairs turned out great and they had much fun making them. I decided to take advantage of Tiffany not being here and make something with strawberries. Tiffany hates them and…
Stuffing on the outside
Stuffing on the outside We have made this Stuffing on the outside recipe a few times and it is so good. I initially got the idea from Martha Stewart. I think I have changed it up a bit since then. A lot of people have a love-hate relationship with Martha but I have to admit…
Noland’s Chili
Noland’s Chili Here is another one of Ken’s recipes we call it Noland’s Chili. Of course, he did have a little guidance from moi as to what I like in a chili. Everyone has I was off learning how to make bread when Ken made this chili. So good and it has a little Canadian…
Easter Basket Cake
Easter Basket Cake This Easter Basket Cake recipe was from a Woman’s World magazine from 1998. I have had this in my recipe book for 13 years until I finally decided to make it last year. It was fun to make but not so “No-bake easy!” as the title made it seem. The first challenge…
Vegetable Terrine
Vegetable Terrine I have loved this Vegetable Terrine recipe for a long time now. I have seen Laura Calder make this many times. She used to be on TV in the morning when I was getting ready and I so enjoyed watching her. My girlfriend Karen so graciously met her at a book signing and…
Smoked Duck with a Cherry Compote
Smoked Duck with a Cherry Compote Ken wanted to try his hand at a Smoked Duck with a Cherry Compote and it turned out so very good. We will be remaking this recipe into a salad for Easter and I will tell you how that turned out. He wanted a cherry compote of some sort…
