summer
Coleslaw with Granny Smith Apple and Chili
Warmer weather brings out all our favorite recipes for barbecues, family picnics and when it gets too darn hot to cook in the kitchen! Everyone has their favorite coleslaw recipe that perhaps their mom or grandmother used but this one, for me, takes the blue ribbon at a state fair hands down! Coleslaw gets its…
Read MoreFresh Fruit Cake
I had a craving for something sweet and because it’s just the two of us, making a cake doesn’t make sense as we would be eating it for days to come. This super easy dessert stays moist even on day three! It’s so easy to whip up and I like the idea of baking it…
Read MoreThe Best Homemade Lemon Ice Cream!
This recipe (adapted from Gourmet) forms part of another – Frozen Lemon Gingersnap Pie – which I will share with you in another post. There’s something so quintessentially summer whenever lemons are mentioned in a recipe, making any day of the year sunny. Flavored shaved ice (precursor to ice cream) has been used for thousands…
Read MoreFattoush Salad
I first made this salad 6 years ago and have enjoyed it many times since then…I never tire of its fresh, clean taste. Fattoush comes from the Levantine cuisine and makes wonderful use of stale or leftover pita bread. Full of nutrients and vitamins – a perfect salad to bring to a family function, picnic…
Read MoreEasy Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream
An ice cream maker had been on my list when we were living in Asia but I never did purchase one because the voltage there is 220 and that meant when we moved back to Canada it would not work unless I had a converter . I went that route when we moved from Canada…
Read MoreStrawberry Cupcakes
Fresh strawberries always remind me of summer. As a child I distinctly recall picking wild strawberries in my grandparents’ field…this was not an easy task as it would take forever to pick a pint (wild strawberries are tiny!). All the whinging that took place was soon placated by strawberry shortcake topped with sweetened whipped cream…
Read MoreBlackberry-Lime Cornmeal Shortcakes
I love interesting and unique types of cookbooks. I received my copy of Ripe last week and thus far have cooked 4 dishes from this beautifully, color co-ordinated book. Whenever I get a new cookbook I always flip through the pages and jot down the page number of the recipe I want to try. Thirty-six…
Read MoreAsparagus, Smoked Bacon and New Potato Salad
My fondest childhood memories of summer were swimming long hours down at the beach where my grandparents lived and only leaving the watery playground to eat. You could work up such an appetite swimming, skiing, playing in the water! Potato salads were a favorite my siblings and I always enjoyed. It was usually accompanied by…
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