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Bacon Wrapped Green Bean Bundles
These are blooming fantastic. These are the ultimate, surprise appetizer for a party, people will be amazed at these little creative bundles of sweet, smoky bacon, green bean goodness. Guests will...
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The Best Brownies AKA Chocolate Chewy Wonders
Ever since I made delicious, chewy brownies and promptly lost the recipe for them, I have been searching for a recipe that creates the same chewy-riffic, chocolate bliss that I once experienced. In...
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Teriyaki Chicken
Finding new and easy ways to make chicken can be so daunting. And boring, extremely mind-numbingly booooor-ing. Just like the same chicken over and over is boring. So I wanted something new and...
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Skillet Potatoes
Easy. Delicious. Has bacon. Do I have you convinced yet? These were a craving one night when we whipped up steak, the same night I realized it must be a uniquely Canadian trait to take out your...
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Space Ship/Rocket Birthday Cake
This was supposed to be a space shuttle, this cake was not in any way, shape or form supposed to look like it did. It was supposed to look like the one on the Berry Crocker website. The bleepers at...
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Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins
Necessity is the mother of invention, so they say, and this mother had to make a banana muffin that her kids would eat! I have tried oatmeal banana ones, but they never seem to like them, banana loaf...
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Seven Layer Bars
Thanks to my cookbook give away the other week, I discovered in the comments another kind of bar/dainty that I would like to try. And as per usual, I put my own twist on it, which is very easy to do...
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Pineapple Slice
This is another one of my grandma's recipes, and one of my favorites. Oh, fine, they are all my favorites. It's a given. This is a light, airy, just sweet enough dessert that now has taken top place...
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Christmas Biscotti
I have a fondness for biscotti of all flavors, and biscotti makes an excellent Christmas gift, because to be frank, anything dipped in chocolate makes a great gift. I also love candied fruit, and to...
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Easy Chocolate Truffles
Truffles mean that God is a woman. I'm just going to put that out there and leave it at that. These are the easiest truffles that you can find to make, and that is saying something. Good truffles take...
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Minty Ritz Delights
These are a magical mystery goodie. God Bless Kraft for coming up with these, who in their right mind would cover a Ritz cracker with mint chocolate? The test kitchen people at Kraft, that's who. And...
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My Butter Tarts. They’re Even Famous.
Alright, the cat’s going to be let out of the bag, the chicken’s gonna flew the coop and all that jazz. Yes, I know that was horrible grammar, and the grammar police are coming as we speak. But not...
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Grandma Marion’s Christmas Pudding
This is the loveliest idea for pictures we have done ever; we took a beloved, traditional recipe and made it together as a family, while my friend Rebecca memorialized it for all eternity in pictures,...
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Whipped Shortbread
The best ever shortbread. No really, I don't like the traditional hard shortbreads very much at all, in fact. This is the only kind of shortbread I have ever known in my baking life, to be honest,...
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Alfredo Sauce With Mushrooms and Asparagus
I crave hot pastas in the winter, they are definitely a seasonal fare for me, and I was definitely having a craving when I put this together. Besides the fact that Parmesan is amazing, Asiago cheese...
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Chocolate Cake #1
Well, I kicked the tires and lit the fires on my new mixer, she cut her teeth on my first homemade chocolate cake. She still doesn’t have a name, it will come with time, she will let me know her...
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Red Wine & Mushroom Pork Tenderloin
I love when recipes sound fancier than they are, and this recipe falls right into that category. It sounds time consuming, a recipe you might skip over in a book for that very reason, when in fact,...
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Buttercream Icing Recipe – How to Make the Best Buttercream Icing
I have found my buttercream icing recipe, it’s perfect and I won’t fiddle around with it any more. Promise. Ok, well maybe one day I will try adding a couple drops of lemon juice to it, to give it a...
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Honeyed Cornish Game Hens
I love Cornish game hens, they are just the right size for quick cooking, a healthy source of protein and relatively inexpensive. I can find them for about $6 apiece at a local super store we have...
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Dijon Crusted Pork Tenderloin
This was just something I whipped up because I had no time, but didn’t want a plain roasted tenderloin. So because Mike and I really like Dijon mustard, I used that as the main flavor. If you don’t...
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