I love homemade iced tea – not only can you spice it up with a variety of different fair or ethically traded teas, Earl Grey is one of my faves – but I also like Green Tea Iced Tea. You can also control the amount of sugar and reduced the amount of additives. Ingredients 2 Tea bags or 2 TBSP of your favorite fair or ethically traded tea in one of those tea balls used for infusing 4 cups of[...]

I Found this recipe on Jamie Oliver’s app for the iphone! Excellent and filling meal!! I ended up adding more tomatoes into the recipe then it called for. Ingredients: (serves 4) – olive oil – 1 red onion, peeled and finely chopped – 1 – 2 fresh red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped – 1 level teaspoon ground cinnamon – a bunch of fresh basil, leaves picked, stalks chopped – 2 x 400g tins good-quality plum tomatoes – 2 x[...]

Halibut is one of our favourite fishes.  Orange sauce seems to be a perfect fit with it.   The hardest thing though is deboning it! Ingredients 2 Halibut filets, seasoned with salt and pepper Olive oil Butter 1/2 cup chopped shallots 1 cup orange juice 1 cup stock ground pepper Directions: 1-Heat a generous amount of butter and olive oil in a pan. 2- When pan is quite hot, add the halibut.  Cook for several minutes on each side until nearly[...]

These are easily my favourite holiday treat. They are incredibly sweet, and such fun to make. Our family looks forward to them every year. Ingredients: Dough/filling: ½ can           condensed milk ½ cup           softened butter 1 ½ lbs icing sugar (4-5 cups) 1 ½ tsp vanilla yellow food colouring Shell: (increase as needed for the number of eggs you make)   8 oz            semisweet chocolate 1 tbsp          butter Directions:   Dough/filling:   1-Cream together butter and vanilla. 2-Add condensed milk, beat[...]

Generally speaking, I enjoy Bob’s Red Mill products. I’m a pretty big fan of their soup mixes and their popcorn. So when Ewan graduated from their Scotch Oats to ‘big boy oatmeal’, I thought I’d check out their seven grain hot cereal. I’m sorry to say that Ewan and I were both most disappointed with the result. Ugh. All was not lost however! The great thing about grains is that they can always be turned into tasty muffins. And this[...]

Gyoza Dumplings are warm meat dumplings with Asian flavour. The recipe is super easy and  is a variation of one I watched Anna Olson make one day. So simple when I make them with my step daughter she makes most of it herself. 1 small savory cabbage chopped finely 1 lb ground pork 1/4 cup sodium reduced soy sauce 2 1/2  TBSP both grated fresh garlic and ginger Fresh black pepper Won ton wrappers Combine all ingredients (except the wrappers)[...]

A beautiful, sweet salad dressing.  Enjoy! Ingredients: 1/4 cup Olive oil 3 small blood oranges salt, pepper Directions: Simply combine olive oil, the juice of the oranges, salt and pepper to taste.  Mix well. Serve over your favourite mix of salad like spinach, nuts and vegetables.

  Many months ago I finally discovered how delicious Kale chips are.  What I liked even better was that a) they were super easy to make and b) my 2 year old would eat them! Give them a try and you’ll be forever searching our kale in the market. Ingredients: Bunch of Kale Olive oil Salt and pepper Directions: 1- Pull the leaves from the stems of the kale and tear into small bite size pieces  2- Place the pieces of[...]

Do you know what’s in your freezer?  Most of us don’t… and we end up wasting money because of it.  It’s not that you don’t *have* anything to make for dinner, it’s just that you can’t *find* it under the seven loaves of bread you bought on sale last week, and the huge ice-cream-sandwich box from last summer that only has two sandwiches left in it.  It’s tough to keep track of everything, especially in a big chest freezer, but[...]

I’m not sure why I don’t make these more often. They are such a big hit! We had them last night and before I could take a picture, they were all gone! I hope your family likes them as much as we do. Ingredients: 3 or more medium to large sweet potatoes Olive oil Salt & pepper to taste Directions: 1. Preheat your oven to 450F. 2. Peel the sweet potatoes and slice into 0.5 – 1 cm slices. That’s[...]