Have you ever seen that Seinfeld episode where Jerry and George dare Elaine to grab food from another customer’s plate at a restaurant and carry on walking as though nothing was out of the ordinary? She can’t work up the courage despite being ravenous, but that courage comes easily to our independent 2-year-old. After a […]
Slow Cooker Beef & Barley Risotto
We’re 2 months into this new baby thing, and dare I say I think we’re getting into the swing of things? I feel like it’s risky to put that out there but, knock on wood, he now goes down consistently around 8:00pm, sleeps mostly-consistently through the night, is learning to enjoy his swing or his daddy […]
Mom’s Recipes: Tomato Basil Chicken Casserole
It’s been too long since I posted a must-make dinner recipe, hasn’t it? It could be because I don’t like to cook actual dinners when the weather gets hot, or because my baby is getting so big it is making my stomach too small to care much about whole meals and increasing my personal body heat […]
Chicken Caesar Burgers
It’s still very much the middle of winter here, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about burgers. At least, burgers that are made in the great INdoors! Even in the summer, when barbecue season is in full delicious swing, I sometimes make these burgers or similar ones inside. I staunchly refuse to learn to […]
Ultimate Beef Wellington
Herein lies the most expensive post you will likely ever find on this ol’ blog: Beef Wellington. To someone who generally considers $3-$4 absolutely plenty to spend on meat for a meal to serve a family of 5 (one baby vegetarian, so more like a family of 4), forking over $40 for meat to serve […]
Mom’s Hawaiian BBQ Meatballs
Since my mom is here all week (YAY!) I thought it only fitting that I share another of her famous recipes – it’s been too long since a Mom guest post! I think these meatballs are part of the reason Carl married me, thinking they would be a regular staple in his diet if he […]
Crispy Lemon Mustard Roasted Chicken
I am on a serious roll with new dinner recipes. *High fives all around!* I love coming up with new recipes, but when they don’t work I pretty quickly get grumpy and get back into a funk of sticking with old stand-bys, giving up on meal planning, and not bothering with risky experimentation. When […]
BBQ Pulled Pork Pasta
We were at Boston Pizza awhile back and Carl ordered some BBQ Bolognese Pulled Pork Pasta. I had a serious case of dinner envy (isn’t that the worst?), since it turned out to be way better than whatever I had ordered, and I kept sneaking bites while saying, “I could totally make this at home.” […]
Peppery Chicken Quinoa {Cookbook Feature}
I am at heart a learner. I love the fact that it really is possible to learn something new everyday. Of course, with 3 preschoolers around, many a day goes by where the only kind of information I learn is that the words to the song are NOT “found me another one, prettier too, skip […]
Mom’s Classic Lasagna
Fall and winter are all about comfort food. And what’s more comforting than your favourite recipes from growing up? This lasagna is probably the food I remember eating most often growing up, and one of the only things I knew how to make when I moved out: meat, noodles, cheese, noodles, meat. I will never […]
