Fairytale Pumpkin and Banana muffins are loaded with all sorts of good for you ingredients - and a few chocola

Looking for something lighter to serve with your greasy and heavy appetizers on New Year’s Eve? Not willing

We have landed and unpacked, but sadly, we have mostly missed peach season here in Norfolk County.  Sure, Nia

The most processed food I can ever remember being in my grandmother’s house was Tang.  No other packaged fo

The kids have decided they no longer care for traditional pasta salad.  You know the one – noodles tossed w

Let’s cut right to the chase – should you purchase and consume the new Philly Cheddar Cream Cheese spread?

Quick – tell me the first thing that comes to your mind when I say ‘Pressure cooker’. Dangerous? Explosi

Impossible Pie sounds like a bit of an oxymoron right?  I mean, some people find pie crust difficult to make,

Sometimes, random things land in my mail box.  Sometimes, life hands you lemons.  And yet other times, the r

So all over social media, I see people posting about seeing and hearing their first robin of the season.  ‘

I hesitate to use the phrase ‘best ever’ for my beef stew, but truly, that is what it is.  For the longes

When I was younger, I spent a lot of time at my grandparents.  Our home was built on a piece of land that my

So, I recently discovered an entire bag of frozen bananas at the bottom of the freezer.  No, I don’t mean a

Valentine’s Day is not so far away.  If you are not fortunate enough to live near a Prairie Girl Bakery ( i

I’ve been cruising through my little black book lately.  Before your eyebrows go too far up through your fo

We’ve had a bit of unsettling news around here lately.  E1 has dropped ten pounds since last spring.  I kn

So, once in a while, some pretty crazy stuff happens to me.  Yah, me.  She who spends her day in blue jeans

This year, my garden decided it would not be producing Brussels Sprouts.  Green beans – sure.  Carrots –

Where do you stand on the eggnog issue?  Yay or nay? I come down firmly on the YAY side – with one caveat.Â

There are entire sections of the produce aisle that I regularly breeze right through and probably shouldn’t.

One would think there are only so many ways to make a pumpkin pie.  I certainly did.  I mean, the basic ingr

Every year, I tell myself that I will make more of my own appetizers.  That I will cut costs and sodium and f

Our neighbours had a garage fire this weekend.  It was an electrical fire, ignited, in all likelihood, by an

I love recipes that contain phrases like ‘wrap up the dough and leave it alone for 8 hours’.  That means

It is time to start planning for your waistline expansion festivities. Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, New Yearâ

Comfort food has never really gone out of style, has it? I am pretty sure all those salad munching, smoothie-d

Dessert is by far the best part of any meal.  Anyone who claims otherwise is either lying or delusional.  Av

Have you ever read through the comments/review section on popular recipe sites?  Give it a go sometime, if yo

Tired of pumpkin spice everything?  I hope not.  But if so, these pumpkin spice whoopie pies with ginger cre

Again on a quest for the ultimate after school snack, I began cruising the interwebs in hopes of being struck

When I say the word ‘Quark’ what comes to mind? An elementary, sub-atomic particle That less than scrupulo

The Norfolk County Fair and Horse Show is celebrating 175 years this year. The Fair opens on the Tuesday befor

It has turned decidedly too chilly for a camp fire.  Not that we are technically allowed to have one here in

The summer is finally here – at least weather wise.  The air conditioning is cranked, the sprinklers are ou

Strawberry season is all but done.  We picked three flats on July 1st and by July 2nd, when I went to clean t

So I had this brilliant idea.  Canada Day is coming up and strawberries are finally in full swing.  Would it