Sweet Onion Barbecue Chicken Here I present a recipe for Sweet Onion Barbecue Chicken; chicken coated in barbecue sauce and baked with sweet onions. A perfect weeknight dish! I’m a sports mom! Quick night dinners have a whole new value to me. We have Gymnastics 🤸 Basketball 🏀 Baseball ⚾️ Soccer ⚽️ We both work full time. I ...
Baked Quesadillas
Baked Quesadillas This is a tale of Baked Quesadillas. Well actually the original recipe I wrote used a flat top in a restaurant. Picture it, Ontario, July 1999.... When I was 20 I met a guy and fell absolutely in love with him. I mean I thought the sun would rise and set around him. We moved in together after his family invested in a ...
Fall off the Bone Pork Ribs
Fall off the Bone Pork Ribs I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned it here before but my son who’s 10, plays rep basketball 🏀 It’s awesome and he loves it. I can’t believe how much endurance is required to play. It’s a huge time commitment on the part of the players but also their families. We’ve committed all weekends to the team whenever it’s ...
Meal Plan Week 172
Here's a great meal plan that I shared last year... Enjoy ;) Meal Plan Week 172 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: Fall off the Bone Pork Ribs with... Steakhouse Mashed Potatoes with Buttermilk with ...
Stracciatella Soup
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 Easter. My poor mother was ...
Sous Vide Pepper Steak
Sous Vide Pepper Steak I’m absolutely in love with my Sous Vide. I use it as often as I can. So much so that I wanted to buy a second one in case my current one were to break. Mike told me I need therapy 🤷♀️ Anyway, I didn’t buy the second sous vide 🙄 I present my Sous Vide Pepper Steak, it’s crunchy peppers and onions coated in a ...
Meal Plan Week 138
Here's a great one that I shared a few years ago... Enjoy :) Meal Plan Week 138 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: Old-Fashioned Beef Stew with Dumplings Prep the crockpot recipe on Sunday then store in ...
Loaded Chicken Enchiladas
Loaded Chicken Enchiladas Okay, show of hands: who’s eaten an enchilada? You in the back, I can’t tell whether your hand is raised. Just kidding, it’s Friday and my brain is fried. It’s fried-day!!! Get it? Friday, Fried-day 🤪 Okay I’ll stop. I ask this because I am about to turn 41 and this very dish, is the first enchilada I had ...
Meal Plan Week 103
Here's a fantastic meal plan I shared a few years ago... Enjoy :) Meal Plan Week 103 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: The filling and sauce for these enchiladas should be prepped ahead on Sunday before ...
Chunky Blue Cheese Sauce
Chunky Blue Cheese Sauce This is the perfect accompaniment to anything spicy or crunchy (enter wings and veggies and dip). Classically Blue Cheese dip is just that; a cheese dip. Here, I’ve cut down on the amount of cheese and boosted the flavour profile with acid from the lemon and fresh dill. So now you are armed with a fantastic, healthy dip ...
Beer Cheese Fondue
Beer Cheese Fondue Here I present my recipe for Beer Cheese Fondue; an easy, cheesy recipe for the traditional French dish with an American twist - perfect for your next gathering! One of my favourite pastimes is to scroll through fb marketplace for things I don’t need. Enter my fondue set I picked this up about 4 years ago; brand new in box ...
Christmas 2024 🎄
Christmas 2024 🎄 Time really does go by fast. We’ve been in our "new" house now, for over five years. And we’ve been hosting Christmas for over five years. We’ve always done our own little family tradition, but now we’ve expanded with Mike’s family and my family, with our family and my sister‘s family, altogether. So here is the menu, with the ...