Do you know what’s delicious? Olive oil, parmesan, nuts, lemon and a lot of black pepper. Oh, and something green in the mix too.
Last week I was talking to my mother on the phone, when she happened to mention that my cousin had made kale pesto for the family over the weekend. I promptly filed that away in my head as “something I’d like to try.” Continue reading
The first time I made this salad was the 4th of July. I’d nearly forgotten the holiday because my husband was at work and I was cleaning and paying bills.
The most festive thing that happened before the salad, was a Raising Hope marathon.
If there’s any show that makes me laugh harder than Raising Hope, I can’t think of it. The show is so funny that I woke myself up laughing one morning while sleep-remembering this dialogue: Continue reading
The limes on my lime tree recently started ripening, so I wanted to use a bunch of them in a dessert lest they start rotting. At first I thought of just making a key lime pie, but the more I thought about it, what I was really craving was the key lime pie filling mixed in with strawberries. I had an angel food loaf in the refrigerator, so I decided to experiment. Continue reading
Risotto is one of those dishes that gets a lot of flack for being “hard to make”. Yes, you can’t just set it and forget it, and it is a bit of a pain to stir it every few minutes, but the effort is totally worth it, and realistically you will only be stirring on-and-off for about thirty minutes. NBD. This recipe is near and dear to my heart as I created it when I was wooing my husband. On Tuesday we celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary, so I can say with confidence that this dish will certainly get you some. Continue reading
It’s Canada’s 146th Birthday. In celebration, today’s post will focus on Canadian made products. Try not to get all emotional. Continue reading
I love salad for breakfast. Up until a few years ago I thought this made me a little odd. I had been mocked enough by roommates and friends that I learned to keep my fondness for morning salads to myself. I can’t tell you how many times in various situations, I’d had this conversation with people: Continue reading
Have you ever been down for no particular reason? For instance, you go to bed feeling happy, cheerful and sleepy and then you wake up, feeling like a blight on humanity. Continue reading
Now that it’s summer chances are most of us will be invited to a BBQ or 6 and we’ll want (or be seriously encouraged) to bring a dish along.
But before you open up the refrigerator and reach for your economy-sized jar of mayonnaise to make a potato salad that will force some people (me) to hold their breath when they walk by it, consider an easy alternative. Continue reading
Does this really need to be said?
Well, yes, apparently this truly needs to be said. When did it become a thing where we take sugary, glazed pastry add meat and cheese to it, or stuffed inside it, or hell, just fire-bombed into your arteries from a doughnut cannon? Why would this ever need to be consumed? Well, because America is hell-bent on destroying itself one bursting corpuscle at a time. Continue reading
This past weekend our dear Rumpofsteelskin shared a mac and cheese recipe he had found in a 300-year-old British manuscript. I love mac and cheese! And history! Two of my favorite things rolled up into one dish? I had to try it out.
