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 Apple ...
Starters
Copycat Olive Garden Salad Dressing
Copycat Olive Garden Salad Dressing Here I present my recipe for Copycat Olive Garden Salad Dressing; The comfort you crave, at home! This is a recipe for America's favourite salad dressing using a few simple ingredients everyone has on hand! Do NOT, repeat DO NOT ever buy a bottle of Olive Garden's DELICIOUS but expensive vinaigrette. its so ...
Spicy Pickles
Spicy Pickles My eldest niece decided she wanted to help her mother (my sister) with planting their Vegetable garden in the spring. In her own sassy way she chose jalapeños but to my sister's chagrin, my sister doesn't eat spicy peppers. Autie to the rescue! (Can you picture the cape?) As I stated before, "there are few things in life as ...
Honey Lime Peanut Vinaigrette
Honey Lime Peanut Vinaigrette A really good friend of mine is obsessed with Milestone’s Chicken Salad – obsessed. She asked me to replicate their dressing and while my dressing here is nothing at all like their’s (I don’t remember what it tastes like), this dressing is definitely inspired by Milestone’s Chicken Salad ...
Creamy Beef and Potato Soup
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 Family Day so in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Turkey and Rice Soup
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 warm, the water won’t freeze. 5. We suffered a ...
Cheesy Potato and Broccoli Soup
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 meal! ...
Creamy Vinaigrette
Creamy Vinaigrette Check out my super simple recipe for a creamy vinaigrette, it balances sweet with tang, and its served on fresh lettuce with crunchy corn and red onion :) This is the perfect time of year for fresh corn, in southern Ontario (my home!). Summer Lovin' This is such a bittersweet time of year for me, I love the hot hot summer ...