Spicy Refrigerator Pickles Don’t you love a great farmers market? I could spend days there with all the fresh produce. I have made a refrigerator pickle recipe before but had left the cucumbers whole as they were the small ones. This time I found lovely fat cucumbers at the market and wanted to slice them and…
Grilled Caprese Chicken Little Potato Foil Packs
Grilled Caprese Chicken Little Potato Foil Packs Disclosure: I was compensated for this post. All opinions and experiences are my own. I love summer cooking and entertaining, it can be some of the easiest meals around! I find this even more true when you are grilling! These Grilled Caprese Chicken Little Potato Foil Packs are…
Smoked Pork Rib Roast wth Cherry Sauce
Smoked Pork Rib Roast wth Cherry Sauce This Smoked Pork Rib Roast with Cherry Sauce is a celebration on to its own!! It is a special weekend meal at anytime of the year. Ken loves to smoke meats and more in the winter months just as much in the summer months. Pork really lends itself…
Watermelon Feta Salad Skewers
Watermelon Feta Salad Skewers In Canada we are hugely proud to be Canadians but we don’t always show it in an outward manner! We celebrate things a bit quieter than some other countries. Maybe a little bit more subdued. We will celebrate Canada Day this weekend and I think these Watermelon Feta Salad Skewers would…
Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad
Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad I loved my mother’s salads growing up. She was from Finland so there were two that she made over and over that are very Scandinavian. This Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad and a Finnish Cucumber Salad called Kurkkusalaatti. I make the latter every summer a few times but also really enjoy this salad…
No Churn Rhubarb Ice Cream Recipe
No Churn Rhubarb Ice Cream Recipe One of our favorites around here is rhubarb. We have a huge rhubarb patch for our little garden!! We have packed in a lot into our tiny space. It is so easy to grow and harvest and it comes back every year rain or shine! So I decided to…
What is a Pomelo and How to Eat One?
What is a Pomelo and How to Eat One? If you haven’t tried the glorious pomelo, it’s time to give it a chance. Pomelos are an incredibly under appreciated member of the citrus family. They look like larger grapefruits, but they certainly are their own creation and worth a try. Learning What is a Pomelo…
Mediterranean Steak Salad
Mediterranean Steak Salad Ken and I have started on a new diet of sorts. The Mediterranean diet which basically is lots of veggies, fruit, chicken, fish and the occasional red meat. When I have a steak I absolutely love a really good one and made up into a Mediterranean Steak Salad like this one. Full…
Kale, Cilantro, and Chorizo Tabbouleh
Kale, Cilantro, and Chorizo Tabbouleh With Spring here tomorrow I am so into light and refreshing recipes, like this Kale, Cilantro and Chorizo Tabbouleh. That is why the cookbook Simply Citrus by Marie Asselin and photography by Catherine Côté so appealed to me for review. It is loaded with gorgeous citrus recipes including lemons, pomelos, oranges, limes, mandarins, kumquats,…
Rhubarb Syrup
Rhubarb Syrup Making a simple syrup is very easy, it is just water and sugar. To make a Rhubarb Syrup it is just as easy as all you add in is rhubarb. If you have a big garden of rhubarb like we do, you will want to come up with delicious recipes to use this…