I’m a real sucker for lasagnas. I’ll make them a few times a year and always forgot how much work they can be. Worth it? absolutely. But still, shortcuts are nice. But to be honest, most of the time, when I hear shortcut, I hear sacrifice. I find it usually means skipping a ‘homemade’ step for a ‘convenience’ step. And…
Big Batch
Make your own Potstickers
A few weeks back, my husband and I went for dim sum with friends and took our one and a half year old. Dim sum is a style of eating Chinese food, where you order a wide variety of small, shareable portions. In some restaurants you order from a menu, in others you pick what…
How To: Big Batch – Thai Carrot & Sweet Potato Soup
Have I told you how I won the cookbook lottery jackpot? Just before we rang in 2017, I found out I won not one, not two, but TWELVE cookbooks! Do you know how many cookbooks twelve is? A LOT! So much that they are all still sitting in a pile on my bedroom floor as…
How to: Slow Cooker – Daal
There is no shortage of slow cooker recipes popping up all over the place now that it’s fall. So why should you try this one? Because. And also, it was a “perfect on the first try” recipe. A simple, healthy, flavourful stew that tastes great right out of the slow cooker and even greater the…
Perfect Potluck Pasta Salad
You want to know my super power? Superior potluck skills. Come now, don’t be jealy. It’s because of all the dang practice I get. I work in a hospital setting on two separate hospital units, with two different teams. Once a week, each team organizes snacks for team rounds where team members rotate bringing the…
How to: Make your own – World’s Simplest Tomato Sauce
This summer has been such a scorcher. Way back in June, I couldn’t wait to dive head first into Ontario’s summer bounty. For months I’ve been in LOVE with fresh summery salads and grilled everything, but now that September is here, the honeymoon is kinda over. This Labour Day weekend, we travelled to my BFF’s cottage with…
How To: Slow Cooker – Mexican Shredded Chicken
For every recipe you see me post on this blog, I can promise you there were at least one or two others that I thought would be hits, but instead were major recipe flops. While I love my slow cooker for chicken, meat, and the occasional vegetarian curry, it does have the tendency to turn…