Side Dishes
Grilled Peach Salad
With peaches in season, we just can’t get enough of the juicy fruit. They are perfect for snacks and always welcome for a picnic. While they are great on their own, grilling the peaches brings [...]
In the Garden – Tomatoes Part 2 of 2
Read In the Garden, Part One So, after all your hard work all summer, now you have a bumper crop of tomatoes in various stages of ripeness staring back at you. What to [...]
Watermelon Gazpacho
The summer has been exceptionally hot this year. The last thing anyone wants to do is to turn on the stove or even the bbq. Easy meals are key and especially ones that require little [...]
Spam and Pineapple Fried Rice
This Spam and pineapple fried rice recipe is a delicious way to repurpose leftover rice. Add in juicy pineapple cubes, some staple items from the pantry or freezer and you can turn those leftovers [...]
Cauliflower Fritters with Hollandaise Sauce
Most food trends are fleeting, generally (these days) driven by social media; Instagram triggered the unicorn Frappuccino® — and a thousand swirly purple unicorn foods after it — and TikTok recently brought us a [...]
Welsh Rarebit
Ale and Stout Canadians love their beer — and we in the prairies are particularly lucky to have close access to some of the best barley in the world. And lucky us — not [...]
Brunede Kartofler
We’ve turned the 12 days into the 12 tastes of Christmas as we visit tables all over the world during the holidays. From KFC in Japan to injera in Ethiopia join us on a [...]
Hy’s Little Gem Wedge Salad
Little Gem lettuce is a small lettuce that is a cross between romaine and butter lettuce offering both a crisp and sweet bite. It pairs nicely with the blue cheese, cooked bacon and buttermilk [...]
Yakimeshi
Yakimeshi's literal translation is: Yaki, to cook +fry +grill; Meshi, rice. In Japanese it is also called by the more common name ‘Chahan’. Chahan is the Japanese pronunciation for ‘Choafan’, the Chinese word for [...]
Roasted Cauliflower Hummus
Roasted cauliflower hummus is the perfect blend of sophisticated taste and guilt-free snackage. Substituting roasted cauliflower for the traditional chickpeas makes it a low-carb option and adds a depth of [...]
Dirty South Fried Rice
Dirty rice is a traditional Louisiana Creole dish made from cooking small pieces of beef, pork, chicken livers, seafood, even sausage and combining with spices. While cooking, the white rice becomes coloured from the [...]