We’ve made it. It’s Thursday. There’s something about Thursday that makes it my favourite day of the week. Tomorrow is Friday, you can almost taste the weekend, and you’ve gotten over the dreaded Wednesday hump day. Thursday is also the day when I just feel like there is no way I can wash another dish. Not…
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How to: Make your Own – Cheesy Gnocchi Bake
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…
How To: Meal Planning – Your One Week “How To Eat” Dinner Plan
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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 – Make your Own: Crunchy Ramen Noodle Salad
Ahhh ramen noodles. As cliche as it is, I fell in completely in love with them, followed by entirely sick of them in my first year of university. I bought cases and cases of chicken flavoured Mr. Noodle that year. Stuck in a dorm room, a kettle as my only cooking aide, it was the only way…
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…