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Here’s a great one I shared a few years ago… Enjoy 🙂 Meal Plan Week 130 Planning ahead is key to meal prep.  My kids will ask me on Sunday what we’re going to have for dinner the following Thursday and I always have an answer! Monday: Slow Cooked Ribs with a…
My Top 10 Summer Salads I don’t know about you but I love summer!  Love it!  Love, Love, Love, Loooooove it!  I love everything about it, especially barbeques and for me the best part about the barbeque is the sides.  Enter salads.  My top 10 Summer Salads. Strawberry and Feta Salad with Walnuts Tangy Broccoli and…
Lisa G Cooks Father’s Day Menu To start: Creole Shrimp and Avocado Followed by: Slow Cooker Ribs Served with: Southwest Potato Salad and a homemade caesar salad with… Spicy Jalapeño Caesar Dressing For dessert: Gooey Yummy Chocolate Brownies (slightly warmed) and of course ice cream is always an option!
Marinated Barbequed Pork Loin Back in the day, my children and I would spend the day at my parent’s house once a week where we’d also have dinner together.  I didn’t realize until now, how much I miss those visits. The dish below is one of the many meals we shared together 🙂 …
Here’s a great meal plan I shared last year… Enjoy 🙂 Meal Plan Week 158 Planning ahead is key to meal prep.  My kids will ask me on Sunday what we’re going to have for dinner the following Thursday and I always have an answer! Monday: Marinated Barbequed Pork Loin Prepare and marinate…
Creamy Beef and Potato Soup Here I present a satisfying recipe for Creamy Beef and Potato Soup, beef and potato chunks in a thickened beef broth with other veggie goodies too 🙂 It’s still soup weather!!!  I had to share one more recipe until the season wraps until autumn. Last month, Ontario (my province!) celebrated…
Cheesy Cauliflower and Potato Soup Here I present my simple recipe for a hearty Cheesy Cauliflower and Potato Soup, its a soul-soothing comfort meal that’s loaded with vegetables 🙂 I don’t like cauliflower. There I said it. It’s bland and usually mushy and it smells bad. I’ve tried to like this vegetable because it’s so…
Stracciatella Soup This is the quintessential Italian Soup recipe I grew up eating – solely on special occasions. Â Only at Christmas and Easter. I guess that’s why I decided to try it last week; Easter was around the corner. When I was little we’d have Christmas dinner at my aunt’s then my mother would host…
Turkey and Rice Soup So far I’m really not impressed with 2021. 1. We’re in lockdown. 2. The only way to take your kids skating is to reserve a time slot.  3. My community appears to be time slot whores. 4. We’re going to build our own skating rink but the temperature is too…
Cheesy Potato and Broccoli Soup Here I present my recipe for Cheesy Potato and Broccoli Soup; its a soup that is a meal!  This hearty, vegetarian soup tastes like a loaded potato.  This soup is creamy, cheesy, rich and full of vitamins. Originally posted on 08 November, 2017! A soup that is a…
Chicken and Dumpling Soup This is what we had for dinner tonight and Mike loved it 🙂 I can’t help it, it’s winter and it’s cold and crappy and I love soup. I love everything about soup, the smell and the warmth while it cooks, curling up with a blanket and watching the snow fall…
Slow Cooker Beef and Vegetable Soup Of all the soups I’ve made over the years (I’m really starting to push 40… hard), this soup is without a doubt the best one I’ve made. Â The beef is melt-in-your-mouth tender and the vegetables are seasoned to perfection. Â This soup is definitely a perk or highlight to the…
This is a recipe I shared many years ago but as I sit here on January 1, 2024 I see snow has coated everything outside and I am so very grateful that my family and I are safe and warm in our home. Â Nothing screams soup weather than cold, winter weather. Happy new year everyone,…