I love to eat all manner of frozen fruit. The regulars consist of frozen banana, raspberries, grapes, blueberries and cherries. It’s something I’ve done for ages, I love to make smoothies in the morning using frozen fruit and I like to nibble on frozen fruit as a healthy snack, it often hits the spot with…
Oven Baked Kale Chips
I totally got hooked on Kale chips last summer. It took me a good long while to try them out, mainly because they were so darn expensive for such a little bag. I mean tiny bag, like really small, pouch small, bag is almost to big a word for the size of these things. They…
Raspberry Passion Fruit Pavlova
This past weekend was like the planets aligned. I stopped at my grocery store and found local raspberries on sale for 99 cents a package. I filled my shopping cart with them and my fridge is now full of fresh raspberries. Yay! I scooted on over to the next produce section and what do I…
Pho Inspired Beef Noodle Soup
This past week is one of cravinnngsssssss. You know the kind, the ones that latch on and refuse to let go until you give in. I Don’t even bother trying to pass something else off in its place. It’s not going to work. Just give in. I’ll be better off for it in the long…
Homestyle Poutine
Poutine is a once in a blue moon kind of dish. Or at least it should be. Eating this on a regular basis would be dire to your waistline, just for starters. But it is an oddly satisfying food. It’s hard to explain, but it works. It’s a total comfort food. What exactly is Poutine?…
Fresh Homemade Baked Scones
Plenty a visit home was spent sitting around Uncle Jon’s kitchen table, waiting for his famous Sunday Scones to come out of the oven and on to the heavy round wooden table, where everyone was busy loudly debating or discussing something of note on that given day. I usually sat quietly in my spot, listening,…
Curried Rice Noodles
It’s Kitchen Sink Special time again. When you open up the fridge, the freezer and the cupboards and go “oh, my….” For the past several years, for the most part, my life in the kitchen is really all about those “oh, my…” moments. Those times when the food budget is stretched as far as it will go, the…
Three Berry Mixed Fruit Crumble
Today I am digging through some of my Culinary Zest folders, long forgotten ones, and within one I discover a photograph for a three berry mixed fruit crumble I baked up last Fall. As can happen when life is busy, I tucked it away and left it to collect dust, to wait for the perfect “I have time to blog…
Fresh Three Tomato Salsa
Fresh Three Tomato Salsa. Yum! I love fresh salsa of every kind. But my favourite is always fresh tomato salsa, this one is three times as good cause it has three different kinds of grape tomatoes. Yup. Yummmmmmmmmmmmm. Fresh Three Tomato Salsa kind of yum. There is nothing that compares to fresh salsa. Nothing. There…
Homestyle Meatball Melt Subs
I really love when I go to the grocery store and I hit the discount lottery. For me, that’s going to my grocery store and finding most of the foods that I would normally buy or want and they’re all on discount. 50% off. And if they’re also on sale, that’s 50% off the sale…
