Hot Chocolate Mix As I start to contemplate the "finish line", I realize that life is too short to tolerate cr

Prosciutto-Wrapped Baked Apple My boyfriend and I lived together for three years before we got married. Even t

Beet Apple Carpaccio Salad with Maple Mustard Vinaigrette The Godfather is my favourite movie. Or, the Godfath

Arugula Pesto Recipe Do you find yourself being (privately) judgey about what other people put in their grocer

Pecan Brittle Recipe This pecan brittle recipe is really rewarding: it's quick, uncomplicated and versatile. Â

Blueberry Scones I love breakfast for dinner.  But I especially love dessert for breakfast!  Nothing quite h

Nanaimo Bars At the restaurant, our customers frequently ask "who cooks at home?"  Since we eat most dinners

Banana Bread I love a dessert that seems virtuous (it has fruit!).  And I especially love a dessert that make

Hummus Recipe Hummus, or peanut butter for grownups as I like to think of it, is my go to snack (or lunch, or

Cornbread Croutons Recipe My cornbread recipe makes a very large skillet; great for a crowd but too much for

Sidecar Cocktail Recipe As easy to make as it is to drink, the sidecar is my new favourite cocktail.  Most re

Cornbread Recipe A skillet of piping hot cornbread instantly turns a simple soup, stew or chili into a satis

Orange Cake Recipe I buy a box of clementines every year right before Christmas.  The first few are gobbled u

Bits and Bites Recipe Chips or Doritos?  Pretzels or nuts?  Rice crisps or Bugles?  The answer to all of th

Mashed Potato Biscuits Recipe This recipe calls for leftover mashed potatoes, as if there is ever such a thing

Butter Tart Squares Recipe Butter tarts are so quintessentially Canadian that rival rural Ontario communities

Lemon Cheesecake Recipe My children have pretty sophisticated and adventurous palates but, when it comes to bi

Pork Carnitas Recipe Yeah, I know, tacos are probably so over and you're on to some other new thing, but I d

Stewed Rhubarb Recipe When I was a kid, fruits and vegetables (except for the canned or frozen variety) were a

Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe Move over dill, this bread and butter pickles recipe is the best pickle recipe

Roasted Garlic Recipe I have roasted garlic in my refrigerator at all times; it just makes everything taste be

Donut Holes Recipe The time spent making donut holes (mostly waiting for the dough to rise) is inversely propo

Raspberry lemon meringue jellyroll cake is my go-to, feed a crowd dessert.  It's very easy to make, looks imp

On it's own, pound cake can be a bit of a bore, so I liven mine up with a zesty lemon glaze.  Delicious serve

My bread-loving friend also asked me to make bagels and sent me this link to Smitten Kitchen's adaptation of

I am bored to death with these endless, grey, drizzly days.  Hurry up spring!  The only cure is chocolate cr

Nothing is better with home-made soup, chili or stew than biscuits.  This cheddar cheese version is one of my

One of my chefs grew up in Texas with a father who was a frequent chili cook-off contestant .  Chili cook-

My children spend the whole day, it seems, with earbuds in their heads entirely ignoring me.  When I want at

Baked apples are almost as easy to make as toast.  Make sure you use a melon baller to remove the core; it's

This is one of the easiest, fastest and yummiest recipes ever.  Delicious with some baked beans, a little sal

My mom used to make cabbage rolls fairly often when I was a kid.  This is her recipe, as I remember it, with

One of my very best friends likes to send me recipes.  I think the deal is that, in return for her research,

You need this recipe in your arsenal.  Potato pancakes are delicious with sour cream and apple sauce, or useÂ

Lemon Squares I like my lemon squares to be really tart so I put lots of zest in the crust and the filling.  

Chocolate Butterscotch Brownies These chocolate butterscotch brownies are really easy to make and mix up all i