Day 286 – Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie
October 12, 2016 - Only once a year do I make a pumpkin pie - Thanksgiving. Sometimes I switch it up and make pumpkin cheesecake. This year I found a hybrid, a pumpkin pie that [...]
The Politics of Dinner (10/365)
January 10, 2015 - Atlantic salmon has become vilified in many circles because it is farmed. So many people take a position that Atlantic salmon is somehow a terrible meat product. It's not. That position, [...]
52-52-2014: Mom and the Christmas Pudding
December 25, 2014 – Mom seems to stick around at Christmas…like an old Christmas Pudding…. Mom came to stay with us for Christmas in 2011, and out of her old [...]
24-52-2014: Fresh from the garden
June 15, 2014 - I can't wait until the renovation is over and I can wash salad greens in a kitchen sink rather than in the bathroom. What a pain! But we are getting there. [...]
13-52-2014: Fresh Baked
March 30, 2014 - Once is luck, twice is interesting, but three times...when you manage to do something perfectly three times in a row... now you have a pattern 🙂 A few weeks ago I [...]
Punishing pomegranates!
I never eat pomegranates. Not because I don't like them, I love them. But I never eat them because they are more trouble than they are generally worth. But after watching this... I think I [...]
9-52-2014: Soup Sunday!
March 2, 2014 - Ahhhh, what can be better than a warming bowl of potato-bacon soup on a rainy Sunday evening? I can't think of much! Sundays always seem like the perfect day for easy, [...]
Roasted Baked Potato and Garlic Soup
It's "Soup Sunday" again, and my inspiration came from someone else's (Afton's) recently posted soup recipe. We had a pretty empty cupboard so a trip to Granville Island was in order. It goes something like [...]
Day 154 – Banana & Sour Cream Bread (with chocolate chips)
154/365 (June 3, 2010) - Do you know what the best part of this photo is? (Besides the fact that I get to eat what's in it) This banana bread is baked in my grandmother's [...]
Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
If you haven't seen it yet, turn on your TV Friday nights and watch Jamie's Food Revolution. Unfortunately you've missed the first two evenings, the first of which was the most powerful so far. But [...]
Pumpkin Gingerbread
Oh wow. Totally ignore those pumpkin bars I wrote about a few days ago. I mean, they are OK.... but this, this is amazing. Pumpkin Gingerbread. It's a quickbread loaf and it is totally scrumptious. [...]
Pumpkin Squares
OK, three cans of pumpkin and three cans of evaporated milk from the depths of the cupboard. Plus a can of pumpkin pie filling (stupid mistake at the grocery store) and another tiny can of [...]
Chicken and White Bean Chili
Do you ever look at your cupboards and realize that, for the most part, you live out of the first few inches? It gets scary to dig deeper because you never know what you will [...]
Pancakes….but in a can?
Pancakes. Comfort food. Even the word sounds comforting. Memories of weekend breakfasts at Granny and Grandad's farm, at Grandma and Grandpa's orchard, at our cabin, and at home too of course. Pancakes are awesome, easy, [...]
Tinned Fish Casserole
Ever had one of those days when you wished you hadn't picked up the phone? I just did. I received some bad news, news I'd been expecting for about 6 months, but hoped wouldn't come. [...]