My contribution this week for 100 Mile Monday is a fairly light meal—salad and rolls! But the salad is not such a light salad, as it has lentils, beets, cabbage, blue and cheddar cheese, and… bacon! And the rolls are actually whole wheat popovers (or according to our friends, “Yorkshire Pudding”). Enjoy this meal by … Continue reading
April 22-28 We have several new recipes to try this week and once again most of them come from the Food & Wine cookbooks. Because my Young Assistant has swim lessons on Monday nights at 6pm he and his brother eat early and Madame and I have a quiet dinner together after they go to … Continue reading
I know there are TONS of linky collections and blog hops out there, and I’ve only just discovered them! So it seems a bit soon for me to host my own, but I’m doing it because I haven’t found a blog hop that focuses on LOCAL food. The rules for this 100 Mile Monday link-up … Continue reading
Last month after our big chicken meal (in which we cooked a whole chicken and actually ate very little of it) the chicken was broken down into its respective parts and has since made its way into several more meals. (Following that original chicken dinner the bony parts spent the night in the slow-cooker with … Continue reading
We celebrated our real Easter meal with family Saturday evening and it was a big production featuring Mediterranean foods. It was a feast – and much of the afternoon was spent in the kitchen and around the grill. It featured hummus, Tzatziki, walnut dip, tabouleh, Greek salad, chickpea-cucumber salad, whole wheat pita bread, feta, grapes, … Continue reading
The inspiration for the frittata came from Fertile Ground CSA’s website. Theirs was simply a leek frittata, but for some reason we wanted to add Ontario mushrooms… so we did. We had to combine a few recipes so we based ours on Fertile Ground’s and on Foodland Ontario’s. The results were quite good, and although … Continue reading
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