This post has been sponsored by Ontario Apple Growers. As always, all opinions are our own. Anyone else feeling that Holiday season stress? Like stress with an extra large capital ‘S!’ So how about I help you out with this Apple Raisin Baked French Toast. So come Christmas day, Boxing Day, and New Years day,…
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Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese with Caramelized Onions and Apples
This post has been sponsored by Ontario Apple Growers. As always, all opinions are our own. Did you know there are actually FIVE seasons? Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, and our favourite, Mac and Cheese Season! And guess which one we are in now?! It’s no secret we love ourselves a good mac and cheese. 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 – Wheat Berry Waldorf Salad
So I’m remaking yet another vintage recipe. Not quite sure what’s gotten in to me lately but I seem to be on an old things kick. I just want to curl up and watch old movies, read classics and listen to 60s soul. And style my hair in a bouffant. The classic Waldorf Salad takes…
Baked Apples – a perfect seasonal treat
We’ve got apples folks. After an early frost devastated the 2012 Ontario apple crop in which some orchards lost up to 90% of their harvest, 2013 is back…with a bumper crop! So get out there and get pickin’. Either that or look for a ‘product of Ontario/ Canada’ when you’re shopping ‘k? Then, rush home…
How To: Snack Healthy – Apple Slices with A Twist!
An apple a day keeps the doctor away – right? I prefer an apple a day keeps the afternoon hunger at bay! And these apple snacks definitely kick the usual apple slices up a notch! Sure, you could just grab an apple for your afternoon snack, but me, I need something with a little more…
How to: Slow Cooker – Apple Cinnamon Steel Cut Oats
I sure did eat instant oatmeal back in the day. Maple and brown sugar was the first flavour to disappear from the variety pack. Followed by apple cinnamon and peaches and cream. Bringing up the rear was boring old plain, of course. These days, the excessive packaging, the artificial flavour and ‘caramel colour’ (both actually…