I quite simply adore cabbage. I love it in any way shape or form. I love it raw. I love it cooked. I love cabbage.My family has long been cabbage lovers. I think the only one of us that is not fond of this humble vegetable is my father. When we were growing up and my mother ma … | Continue reading
I love Pierogi. They are one of my favorite foods of all time. They were not something I grew up with, but something which I discovered when I moved out to Winnipeg to get married in 1977. I remember being in a restaurant at Polo Park and my husband told me I should try Pierog … | Continue reading
Easter is just a few weeks away and I wanted to come up with a viable option for the smaller family to enjoy for Easter Dinner.When I was growing up and for all of the years I was raising my family we always enjoyed Ham at Easter. When mom cooked it, it was always cooked the d … | Continue reading
I have a pasta obsession. Its true. I put my hand up. I cannot resist a dish of fine pasta. I collect pasta like little boys collect bubblegum cards as well. I have a cupboard full of a whole variety of different pasta shapes and sizes.Whenever I see pasta on offer at the sh … | Continue reading
I thought it would be fun to share with you all of the meals that I have enjoyed eating over this past week. When you are a person that lives on their own there can be a tendency to eat out of tins, or to eat frozen meals. I don't want that to be my life and if I can inspi … | Continue reading
Baked Funfetti Donuts. I have a confession to make here. I have never baked anything funfetti in my life. Not even one of those funfetti cake mixes. Yes, I am very late coming to the funfetti party. I'm not really sure why. It is what it is.I am having family over today for … | Continue reading
Todays recipe is for an easy, yet elegant fish supper that I think everyone will love. Not only is it delicious, but it goes together very quickly and easily.I was inspired by a recipe I found in a Cook's Country book entitled One Pan Wonders. I have adapted it to use what … | Continue reading
The recipe I am sharing with you today comes from an old cookbook of mine, The Hershey's 1934 Cookbook. When we were living in Meaford Ontario about 30 years ago now, there was a shop at the edge of town that was filled with nothing but books.I used to spend hours in it per … | Continue reading
One thing that I have always enjoyed is Spaghetti & Meatballs. It is something which my children always enjoyed when I was bringing them up as well. It was a real family pleaser full-stop!Whilst I am not always very fond of Spaghetti Bolognese (its a texture thing), I don' … | Continue reading
One thing which I really learned to love when I was in the UK was lamb. It was not something which I had ever really eaten very much of prior to going over there to live. At our wedding supper I had roasted saddle of lamb and it was delicious. I fell in love. It was so tasty! … | Continue reading
I have always had a great fondness for Tuna Salad Sandwiches. Tuna wasn't something that my mother used to buy to make us sandwiches with. She had a thing for canned Salmon. If we were going to have a fish sandwich at all, it was with canned Salmon.Then in Grade Eight I … | Continue reading
Chicken is something I eat a lot of. I try to only eat red meat very rarely. Maybe only once or twice a month. The rest of the time I eat chicken, or fish, or no protein at all.Chicken used to be a fairly cheap protein, at least in the UK. I have found it to be fairly expensi … | Continue reading
One thing that I found very endearing about the UK was that they called every dessert "Pudding." Coming from North America the term pudding to me meant a custardy dessert meant to be eaten with a spoon, all in its own category, with other desserts being called by their individ … | Continue reading
Brussels Sprouts. You are either from the love them or loathe them camp. I suspect that since you are here right now, looking at this, you might could be from the love them camp!They are a vegetable that seems to spark strong feelings one way or the other in most people. I do … | Continue reading
Tomorrow is Saint Patrick's Day and I thought I would gather as many of my Irish related recipes in one spot as possible so as to make it easy for you to find them. This is by no means all of them, but I do think that I am giving you a nice variety of them to choose from!I su … | Continue reading
I am really excited to be able to bring this latest recipe to you today of a truly traditional Vintage Cake. Traditional Genoa Cake is a cake that I always enjoyed when I was living in the UK.You could buy small bars of it at the grocery store and it was one of my favorites. … | Continue reading
Let me begin by apologizing for the photos today. They were taken in artificial light. It was early in the morning and I wanted to eat my breakfast while it was hot. If you have come here looking for "Fry Bread" you will be disappointed. This is not Navaho Fry Bread. You can fi … | Continue reading
Hello there! I could hardly wait to show you this delicious recipe I am sharing with you today! I get a newsletter every week from Barefeet in the Kitchen. In it the author Mary Younkin shares some of the goings on her life and links to several recipes. Some hers, and some f … | Continue reading
I love muffins. No surprise there. I bake enough of them. I am always up for trying a new recipe if it catches my eye and so it was with the Banana Chocolate Chip Muffin recipe that I spied on Simply Recipes the other day. I just happened to have some ripe bananas that I wanted … | Continue reading
I decided to cook sausages for my dinner today. I had found a recipe on Eating Well 101 for a delicious looking pan sausage dish. Garlic Butter Sausages & Broccoli Skillet.Quick, easy and nourishing the original recipe feed four people. I cut the recipe in half to feed only tw … | Continue reading
I had a quantity of leftover chicken that I wanted to use up today. I had been eyeing this recipe for Crunch Wraps Supreme for a while now.I am not overly fond of ground beef however and so I thought I maybe could shred up my leftover chicken and use it in much the same way. T … | Continue reading
Prepare yourself to fall in love with this beautiful Traditional Irish Barmbrack recipe I am sharing with you today. It is a bread which is normally baked in Ireland for Halloween, but I thought there was no better time to bake it in North American than for Saint Patrick's D … | Continue reading
I thought it would be fun today to share with you what I bought today at the grocery store. I do keep a fairly up to date store cupboard with a large variety of tinned and frozen meats, vegetables and fish, as well as other things such as flour, sugar, butter, lard, etc. Today&# … | Continue reading
I was going to go shopping this morning, but it started snowing and I decided to stay home. The roads are very clear, but not having driven in snowy weather for the better part of the last 23 years, I thought I just wasn't willing to chance it!So I took a boo into my store c … | Continue reading
I always go to church on Sunday mornings. I am a Latter Day Saint and belong to the Church of Jesus Christ. Going to church on Sunday's is really important to me. Its how I recharge my battery for the rest of the week. I do not know where I would be now were it not for my f … | Continue reading
Its been three years now since I left my home in the UK to move back to Canada. There have been a lot of changes in my life since then and since moving into my own home in May of 2021. Its quite different cooking for one person as opposed to cooking for two or more people. Yo … | Continue reading
With Saint Patrick's day being just a few weeks away, my mind this month is very much turned towards Irish recipes and food. One of my deepest regrets about the 20 years I spent living in the UK was that I never got to visit Ireland. It was on my bucket list, but just did n … | Continue reading
Today I baked us another sheet pan recipe for our tea. Sheet Pan Macaroni and Cheese. It was a recipe that I had saved by Amanda Hesser on Food52. If you have never perused that site, I highly recommend you join it. It is a veritable cornucopia of delicious recipes and meal i … | Continue reading
Hello. My name is Marie and I am a peanut butter-aholic. I love peanut butter. I love it in savory goods and curries. I love it in sweet baked goods.I love (close your eyes if you are British) peanut butter and jam sandwiches. I love peanut butter and cheese crackers. Peanut B … | Continue reading
Red meat is not something which I eat very often. I do enjoy a nice piece of steak every now and then, or a pot of beef stew. Occasionally I will enjoy a sausage, an all beef hot dog, or a pork chop. In the UK I used to enjoy a bit of lamb every now and then. Usually I only … | Continue reading
I have a bread machine and I have to say I make good use of it. I bake myself one or two loaves of bread in my machine just about every week. Sometimes if I am invited out for supper I will bake a loaf of bread to take with me as a Hostess gift. I can assure you it is always ve … | Continue reading
I'm almost embarrassed to share this "recipe" with you today, but it was so delicious I am going to anyways. It's a really simple make and goes together with just a few store cupboard ingredients. I adapted this recipe for Meatball Tortellini Bake from one I found in t … | Continue reading
One of my absolute favorite cookies are oatmeal cookies. I love them chewy in the middle with crisp edges. I love them crispy through and through. I love them filled with raisins, or filled with nuts, or chocolate chips, or all three! I JUST LOVE OATMEAL COOKIES, any which … | Continue reading
Roasted Veggie Hot Dog Hash. This is an easy sheet pan supper sized for two that is not only delicious but very easy on the pocket book. I also consider it to be almost a store cupboard type of meal as it uses things that I usually have in my larder and refrigerator.I adapted … | Continue reading
As many of my readers know, around two years ago I had to make a horrendous life change, through no fault of my own. I found myself in the middle of a Global Pandemic having to leave everything I had acquired and then some from my life in the UK and make my way back to Canada. … | Continue reading
I confess in my personal life, when it comes to cooking, I can be rather lazy. Its not that I don't enjoy cooking, but if I can find a shortcut to use and still produce delicious food, I am there! That's why I especially love sheet pan suppers. Everything cooks all on … | Continue reading
I love biscuits. I especially love drop biscuits. There is no fussing about with having to roll anything out. You can just mix everything together and drop them onto the baking sheet.They also end up with nice craggy crisp bits that I find very morish. I also adore cornbread … | Continue reading
I am a great lover of pasta. I am a great lover of broccoli. When I can combine those two loves into one quick, easy and delicious creamy pasta dish, then I am in heaven!I adapted and downsized this recipe from a blog called Savory Nothings. It now feeds only two people which … | Continue reading
Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, or pancake day as it is lovingly referred to throughout the Christian world. This is the last day before Ash Wednesday which marks the beginning of Lent. Traditionally on Shrove Tuesday families would use up the last of their flour and eggs before t … | Continue reading
Honey Sriracha Turkey Meatballs. This recipe I am sharing with you today makes either a simple and tasty appetizer for game nights or dinner parties, or a delicious main course when you add some rice and perhaps a salad or other vegetable on the side.Not only are they delicious … | Continue reading
Sticky Sweet Lemon Rolls. These are some of the tastiest and quickest sweet rolls that you could ever want to bake. With their sweet lemony sugar filling, and that beautifully tart lemon glaze, they don't let you down!I hope you will not hold my bad photography against me t … | Continue reading
One of my favorite vegetables has always been cabbage. I love it in any way shape or form. I could eat it every day, and sometimes do. My cats even enjoy it, which I think is kind of strange, but oh well! (I only let them have it in small amounts, just in case.)When I was a ch … | Continue reading
Chicken Tender Nachos. Chicken tenders are one of my favorite pieces of the yard bird! Always moist and tender, quickly cooked, and crazy adaptable to many tastes and flavors.When I worked at the Manor I used to cook up a huge iron skillet of Chicken tenders to put into the ref … | Continue reading
Occasionally I like to bake myself some muffins to enjoy in the mornings or with a hot cup of herbal tea mid-morning or afternoon. I have my favorites but I found myself with some applesauce that needed using up today and so decided to look for an applesauce muffin recipe to tr … | Continue reading
I am a sandwich lover. I am with the Brits on this one. I have never met a sandwich I didn't like and enjoy. Over in the U.K. they have whole shops dedicated to sandwiches. The British love their sandwiches.They are also huge fans of the burger. I am not so fussed over reg … | Continue reading
A POEM FOR TEAWhen the world is at oddsAnd the mind is all at seaThen cease the useless tediumAnd brew a cup of teaThere's magic in its fragranceThere's solace in its tasteAnd the laden moments vanishSomehow into spaceThe world becomes a lovely thingThere's beauty as … | Continue reading
Sorry if you came here expecting cake this morning. You will be disappointed if you did, but maybe not because what I am sharing is just as delicious as cake, except in a different way. My sister Cindy has a blog called Flat Belly Files (Real Food for Real People) which I real … | Continue reading
When my children were growing up, one thing which I used to make frequently for them for breakfast on Saturday's was pancakes. They loved them. When I was a child we only ever got pancakes once a year. On Shrove Tuesday. And always for supper, never breakfast.We never go … | Continue reading