Family favourites (old and new)
I happen to love rice pudding. There’s something nostalgic from my childhood about it that says comfort food to me (ok, I’d had kind of a bad day). Anyway, I found myself with six cups of cooked basmati rice (don’t ask, I forgot about a …
When I go the to grocery store (or the butcher shop) the only plan I go with is to see what’s on sale and figure out what to cook from there. Meat is expensive these days! This time, when I arrived at Jackson’s Meats in …
Cool drizzly weekends call for comfort food and this weekend that means Carolina Style Pulled Pork. Drizzly weekends also call for cozy blankets, a good book, and not spending hours in the kitchen, so I pulled out the slow cooker and went in search of …
It got unseasonably cold in Vancouver this weekend. As luck would have it, I had some beef and bacon in the freezer that need to be used, so Beef Stew with Bacon was born. What I love about soups and stews is that it’s pretty …
Pork empanadas are spicy and filling. They make a great appetizer or side dish. While they are a bit of work, this recipe makes lots so you can freeze them for later. The filling is a variation of the Pork Enchilada recipe from Canadian Living …
After going to the Autumn Fair 2017 at Kits Neighbourhood House and buying three very interesting jams and looking at Sheila’s Easy Delicious Marmalade recipe which she was kind enough to share with me on Facebook’s The Cook’s Community Forum (thanks, Sheila!), I decided I’d …
This recipe is based on something billed as “Better Than Botox Bone Broth.“
I always liked apple butter as a kid but we didn’t buy it very often. Had we only known a crock pot (aka slow cooker) could make the stuff without much fuss then we would have made much better use of the apple trees on …
I’m big on finding recipes to suit the ingredients I have on hand. Today I defrosted some chicken legs that I bought recently from the BFFs (Big Friendly Fellahs) at the Honest Butcher but I had a hard time finding a recipe for chicken legs …
