I had some homemade pumpkin puree left from making the pumpkin pies for Canadian Thanksgiving that I didn’t want to go to waste, so I substituted 1.5 c of pumpkin puree for the grated zucchini in this recipe. They turned out great!! Oh and Dave showed me a new “test kitchen” approved method for separating those paper muffin liners. (<-affiliate…
Our son has been experiencing some difficulty with stomach discomfort when he eats bread and other baked goods and we think he might have a gluten intolerance. He’s waiting to be referred to have tests done but in the meantime I’ve been experimenting with some gluten free recipes and he has found that he doesn’t have the same stomach problems…
It’s asparagus season here in Ontario and I came up with this salad quite by accident. We had stopped into a Longos when we were last in Toronto as they seem to be the only place in Canada where I can find the mint tea blend that I like. We knew that we’d be getting back to London fairly close…
One evening last week, just as our son walked into the apartment he smelled the air and said it smelled like cinnamon rolls. I hadn’t been baking but right then I decided to make cinnamon rolls as it had been well over a year and a half since I’d made any. Now usually, in the past, I’ve always made cinnamon…
I mentioned back in this post that since moving back to the mainland from Hawaii, we always find it funny that so many recipes are labelled “Hawaiian Something” simply because they have pineapple in them, regardless of whether you’d ever find that recipe eaten in Hawaii. And so when I created that recipe, I just couldn’t resist calling it Hawaiian…
A lot of the ready made granola that you find in the cereal isle at grocery stores are either very high in sugar or are mixed with raisins which have a very high glycemic load (GL). Last summer, I went in search of a recipe to make a low GL granola and after experimenting and combining various recipes, I’ve come…
When we lived in Georgia, one of our favourite treats were the Tomato and Onion Shicaccia from the Publix Bakery. At that time, the closest Publix was in Cartersville which is over 25 miles from Rome. The only time we had them was when we’d make a trip down to go to Hobby Lobby every few months or so. Then…
Earlier this month, on a visit with our friends in Panama City, our host taught Dave how to shuck oysters and our hostess taught me the most delicious way of preparing them. The very next day on our way back to our winter home, Dave and I stopped off at Joe Patti’s here in Pensacola to buy more oysters so…
While surfing blogs this morning I came across this yummy looking breakfast recipe and since I had two avocados that needed to be used up, plus half a package of bacon in the fridge that also needed to be used up… it was the perfect morning to try something new. I didn’t have any green onions to sprinkle on top…
In 2011, from March to the end of the year, on the 25th of each month, I posted ideas to create Christmas on a Budget. As I’ve mentioned before, this past year has been one of major on-going transition for Dave and I and Christmas has really been the last thing on my mind. But now with only a month…