10 Green Garlic Recipes to Welcome Spring
Green garlic, also known as spring garlic or young garlic is such a treat. Here are 10 easy green garlic recipes that celebrate the warmer weather. If you visit farmer’s markets you know that spring...
View Article12 Fiddlehead Recipes to Celebrate Spring
A round-up of some of the best fiddlehead recipes from fantastic cooks. Anyone who has known me for a long time, but still loves me, would say that I’m a bit…frugal. I’m not stingy with others. But I...
View ArticleEasy Peasy Pickled Ramps
These quick pickled ramps are so easy to keep the special flavour of wild leeks all year round. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when ramps poke through the spring soil and it’s time to go...
View ArticleGreen Garlic Potato Salad
An easy green garlic potato salad celebrates the best of spring vegetables and tastes even better the next day. Growing up I hated potato salad. I think it’s because I was an 80s kid and most of the...
View ArticleA Chef’s Recipe for Pickled Chanterelle Mushrooms
This chef’s recipe uses season chanterelles to make the best pickled mushrooms in minutes. There’s a story behind these pickled chanterelle mushrooms. Don’t worry I won’t get into it because I know...
View ArticleNo Need for a Flight with these 5 Authentic Asian Restaurants in Mississauga
A city of international flavours, you can taste the world with these Asian restaurants in Mississauga. This year I plan to spend 8 months in Asia. I don’t know my exact schedule as I like to keep...
View Article50 Easy Strawberry Desserts for Summer
Nothing says summer like strawberry desserts, it’s why almost all Canada Day desserts use strawberries. I reached out to home cooks to share their favourite Canada Day desserts recipes and realized so...
View ArticleHodge Podge – A Vegetarian Delight in Nova Scotia
Traditional hodge podge is a Nova Scotia classic summer recipe. It’s sometimes called vegetarian chowder as it’s fresh summer vegetables in milk or cream. It’s a Nova Scotia classic and has ALWAYS...
View ArticleA Tasty Getaway Exploring Restaurants in Saint John
Disclosure: this post about restaurants in Saint John New Brunswick is in partnership with Discover Saint John. They were fantastic about offering their favourite suggestions for things to do in Saint...
View ArticleClassic Nova Scotia Turkey Dressing with Summer Savory
A classic Nova Scotia turkey dressing recipe made with bread AND potato. And you can’t forget the summer savoury because that’s what makes it from the Maritimes. In the last decade of writing this...
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