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Recipe: Bueno Burrito
It’s Burrito time! You can see from the second picture above that cooking isn’t always the cleanest job. I make a total mess, but I do clean it up! Always worth it. Ingredients Chicken Vegetables (onions & peppers) Corn Salsa Burrito Sauce Cheese Sour Cream Beans Guacamole Green Onions Tortillas First – get the chicken going. I use coconut oil (it’s solid to start with and is able to withstand high heat – and no coconut flavour) and heat it up for about 3 minutes…
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Recipe: Crock Pot Turkey Roast
I know – it’s summer time and more often than not, it’s too hot to turn on the stove. Moreover, it’s rare that we feel like turkey and mashed potatoes, but this past week has been kind of cool with lots of rain, so turkey roast is what we have!! Ingredients turkey roast 3 tablespoons of butter salt and pepper The picture below, on the left, is what the roast looks like when you buy it. It’s an all breast roast that’s rolled in on…
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Recipe: Stove Top Popcorn, circa 1953
It’s Saturday night – what does that mean? Movie night!! What do you need with movie night? Old Fashioned Popcorn!! So much better than microwave popcorn…microwave popcorn has chemicals, yuck. Here’s what you need… Ingredients 1 stove – yes, you need a stove 1 big pot with a good fitting lid oil – I use sunflower oil popping corn salt (just a bit) Step one – put the cold pot on the cold stove (don’t turn it on yet) and fill it with a thin…
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Recipe: Blueberry Buttermilk Muffins
Blueberry? Buttermilk? Why not! Muffins that are oh, so good. Ingredients 1/2 cup regular flour 1 1/2 cup cake flour 1/2 cup raw sugar and white sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 eggs a full cup blueberries 1 cup buttermilk 1/4 teaspoon of salt First – cream together the eggs, both sugars and the vanilla. Then, add all the other ingredients except the blueberries. Mix well. Slowly add the blueberries and make sure your mixer is set on stir, otherwise it’ll breakup the berries and the…
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Recipe: Egg Casserole
This morning my husband was sleeping in – it was his turn! I was up early with the dogs and I wanted to cook breakfast for us…but, I didn’t want my husband to wake up to a messy kitchen. So, what a better way to enjoy breakfast than an egg casserole! I popped it in the oven and let it cook while I cleaned up – easy easy! Onion and turkey bacon are a perfect pair and adding jalapeño havarti cheese made it so…
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Recipe: Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
Sprinkles, sprinkles and more sprinkles. What better way to celebrate a sunny spring day than with sprinkle sugar cookies! Bulk Barn has so many different colours of sprinkles…and I love that you can mix and match any colours you like. Here’s what your’ll need – this recipe makes about 2 dozen super flat sugar cookies. Ingredients 3/4 cup of room temperature butter 1 1/2 cups of sugar 2 eggs 3 teaspoons of vanilla 1 1/2 cup of cake & pastry flour about 1 1/2 teaspoons…
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Recipe: Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Are you ready for some chocolate chip banana bread? Let’s get baking on this fine Wednesday. Who’s ready?! Chocolate Chip Banana Bread So, it’s Wednesday morning and I’m prepping crock-pot meals – not enough room in the freezer because of all the bananas. What to do? I could have made my regular banana nut muffins, but my husband has been a bit of a chocolate chip thief…sneaking a handful at a time, so why not make chocolate chip banana bread!! Start with my banana nut…
