Get your foodie on!
We have the best friends ever!!!! Whenever we get together with the FAB east kitchen (formerly, the FAB west kitchen) we always have a great time of cooking, drinking and socializing. Not only do Mooby and One of Seven help cook and clean, buy food and booze, and make us laugh (a lot), they [...]
One of the fun kid-friendly recipes I found that we used for lunch while we were camping was Taco in a Bag. (Gary even had this served to him at a car event he was at). The kids absolutely loved it and I think it will be a staple as a school lunch. It looks [...]
A week long camping trip with 3 children involves some pre-planning around food. Our kids like to help with the menu and the cooking and typically like to cook the same things every time we go. This year for our trip to Silent Lake Provincial Park, I decided to do some internet surfing before we [...]
Our youngest bought his dad (G) an Indian cook book for Christmas. He’s not very adventurous when it comes to food but he does like Butter Chicken. I actually encouraged him to buy the book because I wanted it (but no one need know this!). After cooking a bunch of main stream food for New [...]
Growing up in an English family, brussel sprouts were always a part of any big meal. My mom would boil them perfectly every time and I really enjoyed them as a kid. When G and I got married and I mentioned making sprouts as a side dish for Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner, he was never [...]
As I mentioned in an earlier post, our last dinner party was themed “Touched by Fire”. G spent the entire night (and I mean entire night) smoking a pork shoulder for pulled pork. He woke up every couple of hours throughout the night to tend to the smoker. I was afraid that the neighbours would [...]
One of my favourite foods is pasta. Another, is bacon. When you put the two together, what could be better? I was searching recipes that combined the two and Pasta Carbonara kept coming up. I must admit, I have always been a little wary about trying this recipe because pouring raw eggs over hot pasta [...]
Our latest dinner party was themed “Touched By Fire”. Everything that was made had to be either touched by the flame or extra hot in some way. I gave the oldest child the job of finding a veggie that would fit the bill and this is what she came up with. Even though our first [...]
I always love attending Pot Luck functions as it often leads us to find fun new recipes. Before I started working from home, I worked in a rehab hospital and once a month a group of us “psycho-social” type professionals would take the opportunity to have a pot luck lunch, trade recipes and stories. I [...]
When a Milestones restaurant opened in our neighbourhood, we just had to try it. All of us loved their Baked Goat Cheese and Slow-Roasted Garlic Flatbread Plate and decided we had to try to duplicate it to take to neighbour’s 40th birthday bash. it is so simple and wows guests. We liked it so much [...]
