Chicago-Style Pizza My friend’s stepmother is American and she made my friend Chicago-Style pizza, I was intrigued, I had to know more. It’s the same ingredients as a traditional pizza but it’s a completely different experience; you have to try it to know what I’m talking about. Serves 4 ½ Batch of my whole wheat pizza dough 1 tbsp extra ...
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Lasagna Rolls
Lasagna Rolls This is a sophisticated alternative to traditional lasagna. I don’t want to say simpler because there are still many components to it but many can be done ahead of time. Also, allowing the sauce to cook as it bakes with the lasagna is a great time (and dish) saver! Might I suggest this as an option to your Easter table this ...
Summer Sliders
Summer Sliders ‘I think I can, I think I can’; this is what I say to myself everyday the weather is cold. I think I can, I think I can make it to the summer. I have a confession to make; I hate the cold weather so to get through it I plan a summer menu in the middle of a snow storm and it makes me feel better. Please, don’t get me started on tax ...
Soft and Chewy Dinner Rolls
Soft and Chewy Dinner Rolls I’m lazy. I admit it. I made chili for dinner and instead of going to the store in the rain with a fussy 20 month old and a cranky 3-year-old boy who wears size 5 to buy dinner bread, I made dinner rolls. I will say this though; I’m inspired. These delicious rolls have inspired a plethora of slider recipes, stay tuned ...
Slow Cooker Beef Stew
Slow Cooker Beef Stew There are very few things in life that are better on a cold stormy day, in the dead of winter, in Southern Ontario than using your crockpot. The inspiration for this dish was classic country flavours with the most delicate beef pieces you can imagine. Serves 4 to 6 453 g stewing beef 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 1 tbsp ...
Chicken Chow Mein with Vermicelli
Chicken Chow Mein with Vermicelli I love stir fry’s, I love noodles and I love how quickly this dish comes together. I also love how healthy, satisfying and ridiculously easy and quick this Chinese-take-out-inspired dish is. Did I mention delicious? Fast? Easy? Healthy? Yummy? Ooooh…. Soooo good!?! Okay, I’ll stop. Serves 4 - 6 200 g Brown ...
Baked Egg Sandwich
Baked Egg Sandwich This is a great recipe for breaking-out of breakfast boredom; this is healthy, easy and great on the go. Switch up toppings to switch up the experience! Makes 12 Cups 8 Large eggs ¼ Cup milk (I used 1 %) ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp pepper 5 Dashes hot sauce (optional) 2 Strips of cooked bacon, crumbled ¼ Cup old ...
Steak and Potato Soup with Mushrooms
Steak and Potato Soup with Mushrooms This is a dish I made for a very good friend of mine on a very cold, blah day in February. This soup nourishes both mind and body; she took leftovers home too! Serves 8 ½ tbsp butter 227 g Cremini mushrooms, quartered 8 Cups (Sodium-reduced) beef stock 2 medium russet potatoes, skin on ...
Beef and Bean Burritos
Beef and Bean Burritos It’s not too often that I look at photo of the food I’ve made and salivate; I tend to have my fill and move on. This is NOT one of those times. I look at these pictures and my mouth is actually watering. I cannot, repeat cannot wait to make this again! The flavours are incredible and these burritos are just so ...
Homemade Tartar Sauce
Homemade Tartar Sauce So many recipes are made out of necessity; I was at my mother’s for lunch and she had leftover fish but no tartar sauce and alas this recipe was born (you can’t have a fish sandwich without tartar sauce… in my world anyway!). Makes just over ½ cup ¼ Cup light mayonnaise ¼ Cup fat free sour cream Juice of half a ...
Spicy Sausage Potato Skins
Spicy Sausage Potato Skins I’ve recently discovered how versatile sausage meat is to work with and then out of the blue I was invited to help Johnsonville in coming up with 50 ways to sausage for their 50th anniversary. What an honour! I must admit I was totally flattered! I should also point out that I was really impressed with how lean the ...
Chewy Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chewy Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies These cookies are the chocolatiest I’ve ever had in my life. I am an admitted chocoholic and I must say this recipe has produced the best cookie I have ever eaten in my life. This is not the place to be modest, I’m sorry, it’s just really not. I repeat this is the BEST COOKIE I HAVE EVER EATEN IN MY LIFE. ...