When you're short on time but big on aspiration, this recipe will definitely save your life! 2-Ingredient 7UP Cupcakes make delicious and simple Strawberry Shortcakes in a jiffy. Dierks Bentley's "What was I thinking?" kept going around inside my head. Seriously, I must have had a little something wrong (or a lot) with my head that day, to even consider catering dessert for two hundred people (wedding dinner). Not just dessert, strawberry shortcake, made with cake, …
All-Time Favourite Stew to Fight Winter’s Chill
I loved winter as a kid, and now that I have a kid I love winter again, but during the in-between years winter and I were not friends. Now, I love playing with my daughter in the snow and the hours spent on a toboggan, and even how she "helps" me shovel the driveway. Even more than that, though, I love the comfort food that comes with winter: hearty soups and stews that really warm you up inside. The smell of a pot of stew on the stove or in my slow cooker, especially if it's my all-time …
How to Make a Muffuletta: Mastering the Massive Sandwich
Given my love for enormous food items, it’s hard to believe I had never heard of a Muffuletta until a fateful stop-over in Syracuse. Upon checking in to the hotel, the girl at the desk asked if I needed any restaurant recommendations. It was late in the evening, so my choices were limited to a popular national bar and grill chain restaurant or Tonini’s Pizzeria. “It’s the Home of the Muffuletta!” I was excitedly told. Naturally I was intrigued. It turns out the sandwich traces its North …
Reinventing Mac and Cheese; Bacon Syrup Anyone?
It’s finally happening. After generations of unpronounceable ingredients resulting in hyper orange powder and a somewhat passable cheese flavor, Kraft Foods announced that they are changing ingredients in their much loved Kraft Dinner Mac and Cheese recipe. Starting in 2016 Kraft is going to use natural ingredients such as paprika and turmeric to color the cheese powder in an attempt to meet the request of over 300,000 people who signed an on-line petition asking the manufacturer to consider …
5 Steps to a Successful Taco Night
If there’s one meal that is sure to cause a unanimous chorus of approval around here, it’s taco night. And we all know how much that sound is music to the ears for the meal planner in the family. The fact that I put taco holders ahead of Tiffany’s on my Christmas list tells you just how much I love to hear it. In honour of National Taco Day (yes, it’s really a thing), here are my top 5 tips for a successful family taco night. Find your wrap We have different preferences for …
