It’s October which can only mean one thing: pumpkin! Much like I can’t listen to Christmas music (which I l-o-v-e) until December, I can’t even think about pumpkin anything until the calendar turns to October. But once it does all bets are off and it’s Operation Orange (of the squash variety). And like egg nog…
Recipes
Chicken, Strawberry, Blueberry Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing
It’s June and on the West Coast that means two things: the unofficial start to summer and the official start to berry sesason; strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and later on blackberries. I just happen to live about 10 blocks south of one of the most prolific berry growing regions on the Lower Mainland in an area called…
Pork and Vegetable Stiry-fry
I went to the supermarket the other day to grab a “few things.” As it turned out I had to buy an extra reusable shopping bag to get my 12 pounds of groceries home. It’s a good thing the store is only a kilometre away and that I’ve started working on improving my upper body…
Chorizo and Potato Hash
It’s Saturday which means I have tons of time to “fart around” (as my Grandma would say) in the kitchen. I like to call it “recipe development”. Whatever it’s called I know that when I’m in the kitchen I’m in my happy place. I always have music on (I’m digging the Google Play “Claire de…
Cobb Salad
BACON! Is there any other food, on the entire planet, that makes everything else taste better? No, there is not! This tasted like a bacon lettuce tomato sandwich and potato salad all mixed up together thanks to the super easy Ranch style dressing I poured all all over it. Now, even though I love a…
DIYS (Do it Yourself Salad) This
About 2 months ago I started channeling a salad artist. You’re thinking “a what?” Yeah, I know. I had no idea such a person existed either but they must have because I have never, in my lifetime, created one salad that has looked even sightly like the ones I have been whipping up lately. So the only logical explanation…