Visit our Bread Recipes page for more fantastic homemade breads!isit our Bread Recipes page for more fantastic homemade breads! For years upon years upon years, drawing close to a decade and a half, I've been making 6-Week Bran Muffins. They're really more of a Bran-ish muffin really... Why Bran-ish? Because it doesn't fit in the normal bran muffin box. They're lighter both in color and texture than the average bran muffin, gently sweet and über-easy. Oh- and you can store the batter in your refrigerator for 6 weeks. More on that in a moment... 6-Week Bran Muffins are simpler and more convenient than just about any other muffin View Post
Kielbasa and Pierogies Sheet Pan Meal
This Kielbasa and Pierogies Sheet Pan Meal is one of our family's favourite go-to meals in the winter and fall months. We hope you love it as much as we do! Can I see a show of hands for people who are absolutely mad for pierogies? I don't see how there could be a much more perfect food: mashed potatoes and cheese (or maybe onions) wrapped up in a perfect pasta pocket. Seriously. Pierogies almost reduce my linguistic skills to guttural noises. Uhhhhnnnnnn. For years upon years, I've made pierogies one of two ways: pan-fried with butter and onions (HELLO CHOLESTEROL) or baked. "Baked pierogies?" you ask? Oh yeah. Big View Post
One Pot Lightened Up Chicken Parmesan Pasta {25 Minute Meal}
I've been a big fan of the one pot pasta approach for a while now. My One-Pot Bacon Pizza Pasta and One Pot Tex Mex Pasta Toss are some of the more popular dishes among the 'busy parent' and teen cooking classes I teach. The dishes are well loved for their taste, ease, economy, and one-pot clean-up. All that practicality aside, ohmygoodness, but they taste wonderful. Because the pasta cooks in the sauce, it soaks up all the deliciousness the sauce has to offer. This makes it far more flavour packed than a pasta that is simply dressed with sauce. It feels like a magic trick to use one pot to do all this and have it turn out so View Post
Black Bean and Corn Tacos | 10 Minute Meal
Today's selection is a lightning fast, super fresh and divinely delicious vegetarian taco that cooks up in under ten minutes. HELLO LOVELY! I can't say that Black Bean and Corn Tacos lack meat because they lack nothing; they're just right as they are. What they are -and I realize this is semantics- is meat free. I hope that by now, you all know me well enough to trust that I'm not going to give you a healthy and/or inexpensive meal that feels like you're wearing a culinary hair shirt, right? I don't do healthy or cheap recipes just to behave. I do healthy and inexpensive recipes that taste like you just made a REALLY good decision for View Post
Easy Cajun Blackened Salmon | Quick and Easy Main Dish
I have a thing for fish. I love it. In fact, I could eat it most nights out of the week. I'm not super picky, I like just about every variety. Not all my kiddos share my adoration of fish dinners, however. Well, unless they're battered, deep fried, and served with *gag* ketchup, that is. Don't get me wrong, I love fried fish, too, but that's not an every night kind of dinner. What you see above, though, is just that. That is a simple Easy Cajun Blackened Salmon coated in a lovely homemade Smoked Cajun Spice Blend (recipe included below), fried in a little oil in a cast-iron skillet, and served on a bed of rice with some equally lovely View Post
Simple 6 Ingredient 6 Minute Creamy Tomato Soup from Scratch
Simple 6 Ingredient 6 Minute Creamy Tomato Soup from Scratch is about as easy and nutritious as a lunch can get. Have your classic American lunch without any of the nasty additives or preservatives in the canned stuff! With the possible exception of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, can you think of a more classic American kid meal than grilled cheese and tomato soup? Everyone knows the manoeuver; you pick up a wedge of your sandwich and dunk it into the soup then get it to your mouth quickly so it doesn't drip down your hands. And the key is to dip just enough of your sandwich in for one bite, so the rest stays crispy crusted View Post
Easy Baked Ranch Fish Tacos {30 Minute Meal from Scratch}
My husband has done mucho business travel lately and eaten roughly a metric ton of restaurant food. To hear him tell it, he's good and tired of eating out. "It's the same thing all the time! Bread, meat, brown stuff, heavy, low on the veggies! I want some home cooking!" Leaving aside the fact that I would love to throw in the towel and go out to dinner to celebrate his being home, I get it. You just plain feel BETTER and HEALTHIER when you eat food made at home on a regular basis. ...Well, provided you're not making meals of THIS, ya know... Or THIS. I do get it. When you are eating at home, you have three distinct advantages: 1) View Post
Onion, Dill, Sour Cream Bread Bowls {mini boule loaves}
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! It's not too big a stretch to say my existence is build on bread and soup. Bread is sustenance, to be sure; it's the staff of life. It's also one of the foods that provides unending inspiration to me. I got so caught up yesterday with some bread I was working on that I lost track of time and ended up running my youngest to his tap lessons with my hair pulled back into a messy wad with an orange hair tie, no make-up on, mud-covered brown boots, wearing cuffed jeans and a parka. It didn't matter, though, because the bread turned out great. I might look like a hot mess, View Post
Panko Crusted Sriracha Cod {baked}
Here fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy... Lenten Friday fish dishes don't have to be bland or boring: Panko Crusted Sriracha Cod to the rescue! We are a family full of fish-any-which-way lovers with one notable and vocal standout: the baby. To be fair, the little guy loves tuna, sardines, and anchovies, so I guess he qualifies as a fish lover, but when it comes to actual filets of fish, he only loves the sort that comes with a crunchy coating. Not a problem, says this mom. A lot of folks shy away from making breaded fish at home because they think it has to be a messy affair that requires deep-frying. Not so! Our favourite home breading View Post
Roast Beef and Caramelized Onion Naan Pizza {10 Minute Meal} plus 6 Fast Family Faves
Need dinner in a hurry? Add a salad and this 10 Minute Meal Fix Roast Beef and Caramelized Onion Naan Pizza will have a satisfying and hearty dinner on the table in a flash. I have a set of recipes I go to for meals on busy nights or nights where I'm just not feelin' it in the kitchen. Obviously they have to be fast, but they also have to be made from ingredients or products that I almost always have on hand, they have to make everyone happy, and they have to, well, BE GOOD. Honestly, what's the POINT of food that doesn't taste good? Sustenance? I suppose but there's only so far you can go without feeling a little excited over your View Post
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