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Our Family’s Go-To Chili Recipe – Crockpot Chili

Fresh-tasting and so comforting. As we enjoyed this meal yesterday, we all agreed that was the most perfect meal on a chilly winter day! There’s no other meal that was going to hit the spot in quite the same way! Served with vegetables, cornmeal muffins and followed by chocolate mint […]

Kung Pao Chicken

Absolutely the favourite stir fry in our household! It’s so easy and quick to put together, making it a perfect choice for a quick weeknight meal. Chicken can be chopped up and stored in the refrigerator covered. So can be the veggies as well as the sauce. Meaning that the […]

Gingersnap Cookies

Long gone the days where I thought chocolate chip was the only cookie that mattered! In fact, I’m going to dedicate the upcoming year to cookies – learning about all the different kinds of cookies and perfecting various cookie recipes. There’s something so unbelievably warm and festive about these Gingersnap […]

Chicken in Creamy Mustard Sauce

Everyone likes this simple yet flavour-bomb of a recipe! Juicy chicken thighs, crispy skin paired with delicious creamy mustard sauce! Takes half an hour to make, yet is worthy of any company! I love making this for a dinner date because of how little effort and time it takes. It […]

Borscht With Meat – Bright and Fresh Tasting Classic

This is an unbelievably hearty yet bright and fresh tasting soup. It has an unforgettable umami flavour that you wouldn’t typically expect from a borsht. And that gorgeous colour!!! And not to mention those tender ribs, that make this a complete and filling meal. It also fits my two philosophies […]

Classic Chicken Noodle Soup

Classic, but with a few technical improvements. It’s October, the official soup season as far as I’m concerned. And no soup season is complete without a bowl of classic chicken noodle soup! Although chicken noodle soup recipe is a fairly standard recipe, we are making a few improvements with this […]

Best Hot Chocolate

There are so many hot cocoa recipes out there. And I’m sure they are all good. I mean how can you go wrong combining ingredients like milk, cocoa and sugar. But despite trying and testing many recipes, some simple, some more complex, I’ve always had this hot cocoa recipe as […]

Patty Melt

Melt a bit of butter in a heavy skillet, ideally cast iron, over medium heat.

Add bread slices and cook for about 3 minutes until crisp golden brown. Move them around as needed to make sure they caramelize evenly. Remove to a plate with the seared side up. Top each slice with a piece of cheese.