Foodie

Finding fun cake decorating ideas for the men in your life can sometimes be a challenge. Here is a simple cake decorating idea my daughters and I came up with to celebrate my husband’s 41st birthday this weekend. While throwing around ideas of what to put on the cake, my oldest asked, “Can you put [...]

I have to tell you that I have been having a lot of fun making recipes up as I go. Everything always sounds so good in my head and in the end, some of them even turn out. I often cook and bake by smell. I look and/or smell what I want to make, then [...]

I’ve been trying out my own ‘instead of’ way of eating lately and have been substituting foods I normally eat with healthier options (‘Instead of’ honey, use agave…etc) . So far it has been working really well and I feel great. Today I decided to try making hummus to eat with some carrots from our [...]

I can’t believe we just passed the first day of summer. Our weather has been absolutely amazing. It’s been so wonderful that I don’t even mind the rainy days. We do make the most of the sunny days though. Playing in the yard, gardening, working on the deck, and eating outside whenever we can. I [...]

A few weeks ago we sat around the dinner table, full from a big barbecue and talking about our weekend when we heard a familiar tune. My husband and I heard it first and then our kids perked up. Anyone who was once (or is now) a kid would recognize it in an instant. It [...]

This Maple Caramel Ice Cream Cake is my contribution to Canada Day recipes everywhere. It actually started out a little more daring then it ended up, but I’m happy with the end result. When I first decided to make a new recipe to celebrate Canada Day, I had it in my head that I wanted [...]

This is an easy recipe to make and I get rave reviews from my family. This was originally my mom’s Spare Ribs recipe and I took out a couple of ingredients and added something of my own (because I love paprika) and it is a great meal to make when you have some time to [...]

Canadians are coming out of a very long winter. Actually, as of writing this, some of my friends across the country are still knee-deep in snow. Slowly, summer is creeping in though. Longer days and milder temperatures have many of us daydreaming of gardening, outside activities and the always popular backyard parties. This year, ease [...]

My daughter was home for spring break this past week and we made a list of things we wanted to do. Two of the items were ‘bake something’ and ‘do an experiment’. My girls wanted to decorate a cookie, but I didn’t want to make my basic sugar cookies as I just made some the [...]

I’ve been really bad at meal planning lately. Last Friday at 3:00, I realized that I had no clue what we were going to do for dinner. Since our fridge was fairly bare, I didn’t have much to work with, but, it turns out, I had what mattered. After raiding the pantry, I threw this [...]