Recipes

ingredients for Couscous Tabbouleh Salad Tabbouleh is typically made with bulgur wheat, a staple of the middle east.  However, bulgur can be a challenge to find so this salad is made with whole wheat couscous.  It can also be made with quinoa. Couscous Tabbouleh Salad 1 1/2 cup water 1  cup whole wheat couscous 3...

Old Fashioned Turkey Stuffing With Sausage This is an easy turkey stuffing recipe to make which has sausages!  It’s sure to be a crowd pleaser. It’s been adapted from the Bon Appétit magazine November 2018.  Serves 8 1 1/2 pound loaf sourdough bread, sliced in 1“ thick slices and then torn into 1/2”  pieces 1...

Blueberries are both good for us and delicious…especially in baking, such as in blueberry cake (see below) or muffins. There’s many reasons why they’re healthy but mainly they’re full of antioxidants, the substance found in food that helps neutralize the cellular damage caused by free radicals. They are high in vitamin C, contain fibre, help...

Lasagna with tomato Meat Sauce Lasagne is a staple in our household of men.  What’s not to like about a dish layers with tomato meat sauce, Parmesan cheese, noodles and gooey mozzarella cheese? I particularly like lasagna because it feeds a crowd, it’s great for leftovers and freezes well. Here’s my staple lasagna recipe.  If...

Ginger Cookies Recipes haunt me like a bad smell in the refrigerator. You know what I mean, every time you open the refrigerator door you think, ‘gee something smells bad’ and promptly close the door. Eventually you succumb to the smell, bend down, move containers around, until you find the culprit. I often find recipes...

Cauliflower Cauliflower When I was growing up vegetables were never the star attraction.  Don’t get me wrong…we ate our vegetables every night at dinner, but they were always the sideshow and never the main act. They were served to add colour to a plate of food.  Not unlike adding accent pillows to your living room...

Lemon Upside Down Cake This cake is a nice blend of tart and sweet. Make it once and I’m sure you’ll make it again. Serve it on it’s own, with vanilla ice cream or with whipping cream. Serves 6-8 3/4 cup soft butter, divided 3/4 cup brown sugar 2 lemons, seeded and thinly sliced 1 cup...

Tips On How To Buy Fresh Salmon • Smell the salmon, if it smells fishy, don’t buy it. If the salmon looks, feels and smells good, it probably is. • Fresh salmon ideally should be kept on ice. The catch of the day should look fresh. • Touch it. If it springs back, it’s good....

cranberry muffins These delightful muffins are both tart and sweet….how good is that?  If you can get fresh cranberries, that’s awesome. But if not, frozen cranberries are just as good. Make sure to brush each muffin generously with the lemon glaze, it’s well worth the effort.  If you can’t eat them all within a couple...

I recently purchased Nigella Lawson’s first cookbook at a local community bazaar.  I try not to buy cookbooks anymore because I have too many, and don’t use 90% of them. However, as I thumbed the pristine copy, the first recipe caught my eye as being simple and tasty. So I pulled out the $3.00 asking...