I find I normally have recipes I reserve for fall/winter and recipes I use for spring/summer. Sure, I try to cook with seasonal ingredients, but mostly find I crave heartier stews, soups, and casseroles in the colder months and lighter salads and bbq meals when the weather turns warmer. But sometimes, you just need some…
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How to: Seasonal Cooking – Homemade Apple Sauce and Crispy Apple Peel Chips
Quelle surprise. It’s fall and I’ve got an apple recipe for ya. These little dandies are brand new and Ontario grown. They’re called Ginger Gold and they’re perfect for eating, baking or…applesauce as it were. Sweet as pie on their own, this recipe requires zero added sweetener. Don’t go out and buy yourself fancy apples…
How To: Healthy Breakfast – Apple and Peanut Butter Baked Oatmeal
This weekend I fully embraced fall. I bought my first can of pumpkin, baked up my first pumpkin loaf, and made my first baked oatmeal of the season. Fall, bring it on! Spring and summer I’m more of a cold breakfast eater – yogurt and granola or overnight oats are the usual suspects. But…
Parsnip and Apple Soup
I trust you’ve enjoyed your Thanksgiving gluttony as much I as I have? Number one holiday in my books. I love the crisp fall weather, the variety of fresh local produce still available, the fact that there are no presents (gift holidays – I’m looking at you birthdays and Christmas – stress me out), and…
How to: Seasonal Cooking – Apple Muffins
Remember the game where you twist the stem of an apple, and each twist corresponds with a letter of the alphabet, and whichever letter the stem twists off at is the first letter of your true love’s name? Good game. Though, not quite fair to anyone who’s name begins with anything after about G. Today…
How To: Recipe Makeover – Cornflake Crusted Fish Sticks with Spicy Pineapple Ketchup
So we seem to be on a roll with ingredient and recipe repeats here. First it was corn – grilled and buttered and then battered and frittered. And now, fish sticks. But instead of crusting in parmesan, these are coated in cornflakes crumbs. A rolling pin makes it easy to crush a bag full of…
How to: Seasonal Cooking – Grilled Pineapple, Two Ways
GRILLING SEASON!!!! (all caps totally necessary) Grilled pineapple needs to be on to your list of ‘things to grill’ this summer. NEEDS TO BE. (once again, legit all cap use) To convince you I’m posting two recipes, and both are blow-your-hair-back good. First up is grilled pineapple salsa. The photo below pretty much sums up…