After having cooked that lovely Roast Pork yesterday, I ended up, of course, with a quantity of leftovers. I am not one who likes waste, but neither to I want to be eating pork six days in a row, so I lopped off a piece to use today and then froze the rest, along with the gravy … | Continue reading
Today's new recipe is an incredibly delicious pork loin roast recipe for a piece of pork which has been rubbed with a tasty dry rub and then roasted to perfection. The drippings are then used to make a fabulously tasty gravy that the whole family is going to love, Love, LOVE!I … | Continue reading
I am sharing one of my NEW favorite corn bread recipes with you today! Why is it my favorite? Because it's delicious! It is the perfect balance of savory with just a tiny hint of sweet. Moist and tasty with a bit of crunch from the corn meal.It is a recipe I have had in my … | Continue reading
Welcome to this weeks Vintage Menu Madness. As a cook and a foodie, I have a great love of Vintage Cookbooks. Each week, here in The English Kitchen, I have challenged myself to cook a full menu from one of my collection of Vintage Cookbooks. This is something I really am enjoy … | Continue reading
Welcome to this weeks Vintage Menu Madness. As a cook and a foodie, I have a great love of Vintage Cookbooks. Each week, here in The English Kitchen, I have challenged myself to cook a full menu from one of my collection of Vintage Cookbooks. This is something I really am enjoy … | Continue reading
The recipe I am sharing with you today is for a steamed pudding. When you see the word steamed pudding, you might be a bit confused. When I refer to pudding here I am not referring to the North American style of pudding which is more like a custard. I am referring to a Britis … | Continue reading
The recipe I am sharing with you today is for a steamed pudding. When you see the word steamed pudding, you might be a bit confused. When I refer to pudding here I am not referring to the North American style of pudding which is more like a custard. I am referring to a Britis … | Continue reading
Here it is, Sunday again and time for another Meals of the Week Post! Every Sunday I try to post all the recipes and links to the main meals that I have cooked, enjoyed, been treated to, over the past seven days! I started doing this last March and it is something that I have … | Continue reading
Things are definitely feeling very autumnal here now. The leaves are all turning brilliant colors and falling off the trees and the temperatures are definitely much lower than they have been. The air is filled with the crisp scent of "October." That's what I call it anyways, i … | Continue reading
I had a really hearty meal out with my father, his friend and my sister last evening and so today I wanted to keep things really simple. I had some celery languishing in my veggie bin. Usually I end up throwing away half of my celery because I just can't seem to use it up quic … | Continue reading
I had a really hearty meal out with my father, his friend and my sister last evening and so today I wanted to keep things really simple. I had some celery languishing in my veggie bin. Usually I end up throwing away half of my celery because I just can't seem to use it up quic … | Continue reading
Hello all and welcome to my weekly Vintage Menu Madness Post! I love old cook books, vintage cook books. I have always had a love for recipes in general and especially vintage recipes. I am slowly rebuilding my vintage cook book library after moving back to Canada several yea … | Continue reading
I recently saw this Teriyaki Spam and Pineapple recipe on a blog called Mochachocolata Rita. I had actually pinned it months ago. It looked and sounded incredibly tasty.I like recipes such as this one which use a few very simple ingredients and that go together very quickly an … | Continue reading
One of my favorite things that I got to do when I was living in the U.K. was to go to Scotland several times. The first time was back in the early 2000's and we just hopped across the border into Gretna Green to spend the day.It is a small village just across the Scottish b … | Continue reading
Well, here we are with another Sunday Meals of the Week Post! On Sundays I like to do a bit of a roundup of all the delicious main meals I have cooked, eaten and enjoyed over the past 7 days. This helps me to stay accountable and to be more aware of what I am eating, and hope … | Continue reading
Well, here we are with another Sunday Meals of the Week Post! On Sundays I like to do a bit of a roundup of all the delicious main meals I have cooked, eaten and enjoyed over the past 7 days. This helps me to stay accountable and to be more aware of what I am eating, and hope … | Continue reading
I was looking for a delicious dessert to make for this weekend's Thanksgiving celebrations here in Canada. Not everyone in my family is fond of Pumpkin Pie, so I was looking for something a bit different than that.Pumpkin Pie is certainly quite traditional when it comes to t … | Continue reading
Put your hand up if you love potatoes! The humble potato is quite simply my favorite vegetable. I adore them in any way shape or form. You could take away my chocolate and I might be a bit miffed with you, but don't ever try to take away my potatoes. I would be very unfor … | Continue reading
I found myself with a quantity of leftover mashed potatoes that needed using up from our dinner the other night I froze most of them, but wanted to use some of them to make some of our favorite Potato Doughnuts.This Potato Doughnut recipe is not a yeasted doughnut. It falls un … | Continue reading
My brother has been visiting us from Ottawa for the past week. He goes home today as I write this (Tuesday). I had the opportunity to have him and the rest of our immediate family over for Supper on Monday, which really brought me a lot of joy.For the 20+ years that I was livin … | Continue reading
Here I am, another Tuesday, another Vintage Menu Madness! I have challenged myself to cook one vintage menu in its entirety from one of my Vintage Cookery Books. This is something I have really enjoyed and that I hope you also enjoy!I have always enjoyed Vintage Cookbooks. It i … | Continue reading
My brother is visiting us from Ottawa at the moment and the three of us (my sister, he and I) have been spending this week visiting some of our old haunts and just enjoying each other's company.Yesterday we went to Wolfville to visit the Farm Market there. Hennigar's Fa … | Continue reading
Welcome to my weekly Meals of the Week Post. The one where I share with you, my readers, all of the deliciousness that I have enjoyed for my main meals over the past seven days! Lots of deliciousness.My brother has been here with us for most of this week, so it has been double t … | Continue reading
Warm and tender muffins, fresh from the oven are something which is welcome in my home any time of day. Generally speaking I will usually have one for breakfast if I am going to have one, but, in all truth, I would never turn a fresh muffin down!Especially when they are as deli … | Continue reading
There is no doubt about it, my Mom's Best Apple Pie is a real favorite pie for us to enjoy at this time of year. We live in the beautiful Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia and this is a prime apple growing region. Mom made the best apple pies, having learned how to make them fro … | Continue reading
This Impossibly Easy Pecan Pie recipe is one that I have wanted to try for a long time now. I adore pecan pie and anything that might make it possible for me to enjoy one quicker or easier is something I am keenly interested in!Impossible Pecan Pie is actually one of the easies … | Continue reading
It was a bit chilly today and so I thought I would make a soup for supper. Not just any soup, however. A lush and easy Cheesy Sausage Chowder! Rich and deliciously hearty! The recipe was one that I adapted from The Recipe Rebel for Cheeseburger Soup. It was a recipe I had p … | Continue reading
Another Sunday, another Meals of the Week post! Sundays is the day that I set apart to share with you, my readers, all of the delicious meals I have cooked, shared and enjoyed over the past 7 days. Most days I eat at home with the occasional meal out.Just because I am a single … | Continue reading
Hello! Welcome to the first official day of Autumn. Now we can officially begin to enjoy all things apple and pumpkin without feeling guilty and rushing things! Autumn is here!Autumn is my favorite season of the year. Not just because the temperatures are now getting cooler, b … | Continue reading
Rice is a fabulous and economical side dish. Every time I cook it I ask myself why I don't cook it more often. It is something which I really enjoy.It was not something we got very often when I was a child, and more often than not if we did get it, it was the instant cook r … | Continue reading
Red meat is not something I eat very often. It is a rare treat. I think one of my favorite cuts (Aside from the tenderloin) has to be the Brisket. I think pound for pound, penny for penny, this is one of the most delicious pieces of beef that you can enjoy.When I was living in … | Continue reading
Hello! Its Tuesday and you know what that means! Its another Vintage Menu Madness day! The day where I cook an entire menu from one of my vintage cookery books.That's a full menu with a main dish, some fabulous sides and a dessert. Often a bread or an appetizer as well, depen … | Continue reading
This Apple Danish Bar recipe which I am sharing with you today is one that my sister shared with me many, many years ago when we were both young mums raising young families. I am not sure where she got the recipe, probably from one of her older friends.She had an older Ukraini … | Continue reading
Here I am with another meals of the week post, this one covering Sunday September 10th to Saturday September 16th. I have to say I am most appreciative of the feedback that I get from these posts. It is clear that you are being inspired from what I am cooking and eating and that … | Continue reading
There is this girl on YouTube that I have been watching. Vintage Dietitian. She is a girl who has an interest in anything vintage who also happens to be a nutritionist. She is working her way through a vintage cookbook she picked up at a flea market entitled, 52 Sunday Dinners … | Continue reading
I will be the first to put my hand up! The potato is my favorite vegetable! I love LOVE them in any way shape or form. I could happily eat just a plate of boiled potatoes with nothing but salt, pepper and butter on them and be quite content with only that for my meal!When aske … | Continue reading
One thing that I really, really love to bake (and eat for that matter) is muffins. There is something very comforting about having a muffin for breakfast or break time along with your favorite hot drink!Simple, one bowl recipes, that go together in a flash and bake in a flash. … | Continue reading
I had my foot lady coming today so I wanted to make something quick and easy for my dinner. The recipe which I am sharing with you comes from the cookery book by Betty Crocker, entitled, Bisquick Impossibly Easy Pies. I don't mind dinners which use store cupboard ingredients. … | Continue reading
I had a ton of fun doing my Vintage Menu Madness last week, and I think you all really enjoyed it too. If you are reading this for the first time, Vintage Menu Madness is a new feature I have added to my blog. Once a week, I will explore a menu from one of my many Vintage Cooke … | Continue reading
On really busy days I like to take advantage of my crockpot and make myself a delicious supper with little to no effort on my part.With a bit of initial preparation, you basically can just throw everything into your crock pot (slow cooker) and let the crock pot do the work, lea … | Continue reading
Here we are with my weekly Meals of the Week post. On Sundays I like to do a re-cap of all of the meals that I have prepared for myself over the past 7 days. This has proven to be very helpful for me. It helps me to keep track of what I have eaten over the week, just gone and h … | Continue reading
One thing I really love to bake, and to eat for that matter, is scones. I have never met a scone that I did not fall in love with, and I have baked and eaten a lot of scones in my lifetime!I saw this Brown Sugar Pecan Scones recipe on a blog called Sugary Logic. They looked … | Continue reading
After we had finished making our Crabapple Jelly yesterday, my sister and I decided to take a little road trip and look up the farm where we had gotten our crabapples from. I really love these impromptu trips we take, they are always so much fun.We did not find anything much a … | Continue reading
One thing that I always enjoyed in the late summer and Autumn was making my own jellies, jams and preserves. This is something I have not done a lot of in recent years, probably because I now live on my own and I simply could not use it all up. Recently my sister and I saw some … | Continue reading
One thing that I always enjoyed in the late summer and Autumn was making my own jellies, jams and preserves. This is something I have not done a lot of in recent years, probably because I now live on my own and I simply could not use it all up. Recently my sister and I saw some … | Continue reading
Welcome the very first post of what I hope will be something which you, my readers will enjoy. I own a number of Vintage Cookery Books and it is my plan to cook, once a week, a complete menu from said books!I hope that these posts will become an interesting dive into exploring … | Continue reading
I had a quantity of leftover cooked chicken breast meat that I wanted to use up today. I had flagged this Chicken & Dumpling recipe in a cookbook I own called, Scrumptious by Christine Denney, The Girl Who Ate Everything.It looked really delicious and was quite different than an … | Continue reading
I had picked up the cutest little acorn squash at Goucher's Farm market a couple of weeks ago with the idea in mind that I was going to bake and stuff it. Of course then I promptly got ill, but I am happy to say that it has finally happened! May I present to you, Stuffed Acorn … | Continue reading