Adventures of a Home Cook
I know that I am supposed to eat more fish, especially oily fish like salmon. I have been told repeatedly of the numerous health benefits. And don’t get me wrong- I like fish. It just never seems to make it into the regular repertoire. I’m …
I am always looking for new and interesting ways to use vegetables. This is especially true in the summer when produce is plentiful, my eyes are bigger than my stomach at the Farmer’s Market, and my garden produces all of its vegetables at one time. …
Carrots may seem like a vegetable relegated to cold winter months, where root vegetables are the only decent looking produce at the grocery store, but they are actually delicious and in season in the late summer. Thin carrots with the greens still attached and beautiful …
Where I am from, the last weekend in August is known as Cornfest weekend. Yes my small town celebrates its corn to an extreme degree. There is a corn-eating contest, a Miss Cornfest pageant, and the Cornfest parade lead by Nibby and Niblet- an adult …
Every time I make traditional ratatouille I am severely disappointed. I don’t think it is the recipe creator’s fault. I just expect ratatouille not to be so liquidy and soggy, but to really be a spiral of vegetables like the dish served in the Disney …
While we are still in full barbecue swing I have decided to share my new favourite potato salad recipe. This is not the typical standard creamy potato salad, although it does contain mayo (don’t leave the page- I swear it’s not the usual creamy concoction!). …
Every summer my mother and I take a couple days off of work and can preserves, pickles, and if we are ambitious, tomato sauce. I’m not going to lie: it’s exhausting. It takes a full year before I muster up the energy again and forget …
This past weekend marked my daughter’s (gasp) 4th birthday. What does every little kid want for their birthday? A cake filled with sprinkles. Dots of funfetti colours throughout the cake, topped with icing and more sprinkles really screams “kid birthday”! And while it is filled …
I came back from a week away to discover that my garden had produced a zucchini the size of a large squash. I had no choice. I had to make zucchini bread. Or so I tell my Keto-dieting husband. Really though- an overly large zucchini will …
Having recently returned from a week away at our cottage in Northern Michigan, I need a nap! There was a time when a vacation away at the cottage meant spending the afternoon floating on the lake, reading a good book on the screened in porch …