I’ve finally recovered from my week in the kitchen with 37 kids over Spring Break. We had so much fun! I’m stopping now, because I had you at 37 kids, didn’t I? Yes, but they were spaced over two camps (younger kids in the mornings, older ones in the afternoon), not 37 kids all at
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March 27, 2013
Easter Treats for Small Hands: Monkey Bread and Bird’s Nest Cookies
December 24, 2012
Mint Chocolate Butter Crisps – Happy Holidays!
I have had many friends and clients ask me to post this recipe so that they can Pin It and “never lose track of it again“! I get it. This is the one cookie I make without fail. I almost got away without it this year, but this morning – Christmas Eve – I woke up
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October 31, 2012
Fresh Pumpkin Loaf
The last three weeks of rain, rain, and more rain has driven me indoors where I am cozy in my kitchen, laughing in the face of damp cold weather. It’s easy to be smug when I know my comfort foods have got my back. My own favourite foods-to-protect-me-from-rain can be anything from roast chicken to curried lentils to apple pie. But none
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September 9, 2012
Train Museum Pie
By “Train Museum”, I mean the BC Forest Discovery Centre. By “Pie”, I mean, well, pie. Many years ago, when my oh-so-cool Middle Schooler was a train-obsessed toddler, we would have to, have to, stop at the ‘Twain Museum’ on our way up and down the Island. Old-fashioned vehicles and machinery, and a steam train ride
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August 31, 2012
Garlic Chili Dilly Runner Beans
Yesterday, I posted one of our simplest and favouritest summer meals: crispy chicken with Nonna’s green beans. We eat green beans a lot around here, since they are a favourite vegetable of at least three members of our family. Seasonal, nutritious, tender-crisp, sweet, done in a jiffy – does it get any better? Yes, it does, apparently.
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August 30, 2012
The Simple Recipe that my Family Thinks is All Gourmet
Since I have started documenting my simple summer meals, I realize that I make Crispy Broiled Chicken quite frequently. It’s so common around here and so well-loved that I’ve even posted about it once before. I make Crispy Broiled Chicken because it guarantees super-crispy skin and moist meat on the very same piece of bird. It’s my favourite method for
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August 27, 2012
Simple Summer Meals and the Kid Rating
Thank you for the positive feedback I’ve received so far on my first simple meal post. I’m thrilled to know that I’m in good company while I suffer from a love of cooking/eating with not-enough-time-to-make-it-happen. Wait, let me rephrase. I did know I am not alone in this, but I’m thrilled to know that some of you want to read
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August 25, 2012
A Simple Summer Meal meets the Problem with my Blog
Many of my cooking class students are curious about my home cooking and my family’s eating habits. In almost every class, it seems, I am fielding questions about my personal life, the most common two being: “Will your kids eat this?” and “Do you cook like this at home?” The short answer to these kinds of questions is ”most
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August 16, 2012
Camping Food, Post Three: Huckleberry Pancakes
By the time you read this post, I will be away camping on beautiful Cortes Island with my children and their cousins. I will, without a doubt, be making a giant batch of these pancakes on the trip, possibly on this very day. Apparently, a camping trip without Auntie Heidi’s huckleberry pancakes is
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July 23, 2012
Sour Cherry Cobbler with Almond
This is how much I love sour cherries: 1. When my parents’ sour cherry tree died of a horrible tree disease several years ago, I cried and held a private tree funeral service in my head. 2. I kept my last jar of frozen sour cherries from that tree for four years because I didn’t
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