For our Christmas dinner this year we did something a little different.  My daughter is not terribly fond of turkey and when I asked her what she would like for our dinner, she replied “Sushi”.  I am allergic to seafood so this wasn’t an ideal choice for me so I worked out a compromise.  I [...]

Today is National Hot Chocolate Day!  In celebration, I offer you these recipes and ideas for making your hot chocolate extra special: I occasionally watch Cityline on CityTV here in Canada.  My favourite days to watch are Mondays when it’s “Around the House Day” – devoted to cooking and gardening and things like that and [...]

I’m not Jewish but we began celebrating some Jewish holidays when my daughter was a child.  It began with two key events.  One was that my daughter learned about Jewish holidays at school as part of her religion lessons in Grade One and was so taken by them, that for a time she wanted to [...]

Here are two of my family’s favourite pork chop recipes!  My mouth is watering already just thinking of them! Jerri’s Pork Chops and Rice This recipe came from my sister-in-law Jerri. Ingredients: 1 medium onion, chopped 1/2 cup celery, minced (note: you can just chop it but I am not fond of a really obvious [...]

I love to give holiday gifts from my kitchen.  Most are quick and easy and they always are a big hit!  More than that, it’s something that I know the majority of people will use – even the most difficult to buy for – and you aren’t giving them something that will add clutter to [...]

St. Nicholas is known as the saint on whom the story of Santa Claus was based, being the patron saint of children.  Today, December 6th is the feast day of St. Nicholas.  In many countries there are customs surrounding St. Nick’s Day usually involving leaving out wooden shoes or something similar which would get filled [...]

This recipe is adapted from Michael Smith.  I saw him prepare it on TV and knew I had to try it.  It is a favourite of mine now! Ingredients: 4 chicken breasts or 8 chicken thighs (he used thighs but my family is not big on dark meat so I used breasts) – Michael deboned [...]

My grand-niece’s room is decorated in butterflies so since she was born I have had some fun making her some butterfly art for her room.  The first one I show here was based on a design I saw quite a few months ago online somewhere.  The original design showed a “flock” (don’t think that’s really [...]

A few weeks back I posted an idea for making bouquets of flowers out of baby clothes.  I had done this as a gift for my newborn grand-niece and it was a big hit.  At the time I couldn’t find my photos of the bouquet I had made but SURPRISE!!! I found them today!  Here [...]