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Meal Plan Week 151

July 18, 2025 By Lisa Leave a Comment

Here is a great one I shared a few years ago… Enjoy 🙂 Meal Plan Week 151 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: Mustard, Lemon and Fresh Herb Chicken…

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Grilled Herb Burger

July 14, 2025 By Lisa Leave a Comment

Grilled Herb Burger Here I present my recipe for a Grilled Herb Burger; This is a recipe that has been on my mind for a while because it combines so many things that I love about summer. My herb garden is in full bloom and I do LOVE a homemade barbequed burger. Use any combination…

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Meal Plan Week 183

July 11, 2025 By Lisa Leave a Comment

Here is a great one I shared last year… Enjoy 🙂 Meal Plan Week 183   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: Perfectly Brined Chicken Drumsticks Prepare the brine…

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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

July 8, 2025 By Lisa 46 Comments

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies I almost called this recipe: ‘The Chewiest, Yummiest Chocolate Chip Cookie in the World’, yup, I said it. This is without a doubt the world’s most delicious cookie. It is. I swear. You’ll be the hero of every bake sale and every mom in town will want your cookie recipe, even…

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Another Long Weekend BBQ Menu

June 30, 2025 By Lisa Leave a Comment

Another Long Weekend BBQ Menu I’ve mentioned many times that I’m Canadian and on July 1 we are celebrating Canada’s birthday 🍁 🇨🇦… appropriately called Canada Day 🇨🇦   In honour of our holiday and remembering our very fabulous neighbours to the south have the 4th a few days later… I wanted to share another…

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  • Here is a great one I shared a few years ago… Enjoy 🙂 Meal Plan Week 151 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: Mustard, Lemon and Fresh Herb Chicken… [Continue Reading]

    Meal Plan Week 151
  • Grilled Herb Burger Here I present my recipe for a Grilled Herb Burger; This is a recipe that has been on my mind for a while because it combines so many things that I love about summer. My herb garden is in full bloom and I do LOVE a homemade barbequed burger. Use any combination… [Continue Reading]

    Grilled Herb Burger
  • Here is a great one I shared last year… Enjoy 🙂 Meal Plan Week 183   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: Perfectly Brined Chicken Drumsticks Prepare the brine… [Continue Reading]

    Meal Plan Week 183
  • Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies I almost called this recipe: ‘The Chewiest, Yummiest Chocolate Chip Cookie in the World’, yup, I said it. This is without a doubt the world’s most delicious cookie. It is. I swear. You’ll be the hero of every bake sale and every mom in town will want your cookie recipe, even… [Continue Reading]

    Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Another Long Weekend BBQ Menu I’ve mentioned many times that I’m Canadian and on July 1 we are celebrating Canada’s birthday 🍁 🇨🇦… appropriately called Canada Day 🇨🇦   In honour of our holiday and remembering our very fabulous neighbours to the south have the 4th a few days later… I wanted to share another… [Continue Reading]

    Another Long Weekend BBQ Menu

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Creamy Beef and Potato Soup

March 25, 2025 By Lisa

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…

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Cheesy Cauliflower and Potato Soup

February 25, 2025 By Lisa

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…

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Stracciatella Soup

January 27, 2025 By Lisa

Stracciatella Soup This is the quintessential Italian Soup recipe I grew up eating – solely on special occasions.  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…

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Turkey and Rice Soup

December 3, 2024 By Lisa

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…

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healthy Cheesy Potato and Broccoli Soup

Cheesy Potato and Broccoli Soup

October 21, 2024 By Lisa

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…

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Chicken and Dumpling Soup

January 23, 2024 By Lisa Leave a Comment

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…

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Slow Cooker Beef and Vegetable Soup

January 15, 2024 By Lisa Leave a Comment

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.  The beef is melt-in-your-mouth tender and the vegetables are seasoned to perfection.  This soup is definitely a perk or highlight to the…

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Parmesan and Chive Dumpling Soup

January 1, 2024 By Lisa

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.  Nothing screams soup weather than cold, winter weather. Happy new year everyone,…

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