Pork Recipes

Azaleas & Rhododendrons As Cut Flowers

Do you have Azaleas and Rhododendrons in your garden? Do you ever think of cutting them for displaying inside of your home? My husband and I have both Azaleas and Rhododendrons on our property - at least nine of them. A few Azaleas and the rest are Rhodos. All but two...

How To Keep Cut Tulips Standing Tall

I love tulips! I haven't always, but over the years I've learned to love them, even though they tend to droop over not long after being cut. At least they did until last week! Don't Forget To Prick Them With A Pin One of my neighbours dropped off a thank you bouquet...

Easy Pesto Recipe

This is an easy Pesto recipe! Simply toss all of the ingredients in a food processor and process on low speed. A bit of pulsing the contents can help the basil work it's way throughout the mixture a bit more easily too. Easy Pesto Recipe Ingredients: 2 cups (500 ml)...

Pesto Chicken Quesadillas

This Pesto Chicken Quesadilla recipe is inspired by the Cactus Club restaurant. A friend took me there for lunch a few weeks back and we shared a salad and their Pesto Chicken Quesadilla with yam fries. YUM!! Afterwards, I was determined to recreate Quesadilla recipe...

Cajun Chicken Pesto Pasta

This is delicious and easy to prepare cajun chicken and pesto pasta recipe! Flavourful and pretty straightforward to prepare - who would have thought cajun and pesto would go together!! A great dish to make the night after you’ve had a Cajun Caesar Salad --- or the...

Simple Pad Thai

An easy to prepare and tasty Pad Thai recipe. The sauce was inspired by a Pad Thai sauce recipe from the Best of Bridge. It's not the same sauce but it was the inspiration for the sauce used here. Ingredients - 3 carrots, cut into thin strips 6 green onions, cut into...

Easy Chicken Enchiladas

Easy Chicken Enchiladas

This recipe is EASY and tasty! I was looking for a way to use up leftover meat from frozen rotisserie chickens that I had thawed. I made a big batch of chicken soup for the freezer ... 15 containers! And still had more chicken left over. (I had leftovers from roughly...

It’s the …

It’s the cancelled surgeries.   It’s the family and friends we haven’t been allowed to see. The elderly parents passing away alone.   It’s the funerals of loved ones we haven’t been allowed to attend, and the limit to how many can celebrate their death or even attend...

Easy Sourdough Bread (With A Touch Of Yeast)

Easy Sourdough Bread (With A Touch Of Yeast)

For a little more than a year I've been making sourdough bread. I've loved it but getting the extra rise that makes it a nice sandwich bread has been difficult. So, I decided to test out adding a bit of yeast to my sourdough recipes and the difference is night and...

COVID, Vaccinating Children & Trusting Big Pharma

COVID, Vaccinating Children & Trusting Big Pharma

Vaccinating children is insanity. The risk to children from a vaccination that is being used under an emergency use authorization and will not be finished with trials until 2023 is crazy. Even that is early. This vaccine bypassed many of the early stages normally...

This Could Never Happen In Canada, Right?

This could never happen in Canada, right? A 6 month prison sentence if the unvaccinated are caught inside any restaurant, bar, coffee shop, sporting event, theater, cinema, museum, for starters. A 12 month prison sentence and a 45,000 euro fine for any business if...

Sourdough Starter From Scratch

Sourdough Starter From Scratch

Making sourdough starter from scratch is so much easier than I ever thought it was! I've bought sourdough starter in the past, although I have only recently really begun to make sourdough bread. Until recently, I hadn't had a lot of success. I think this was largely...

Nanaimo Bars

Nanaimo Bars

My mother-in-law's recipe for Nanaimo Bars. Easy to pull together and delicious. A Christmas favourite! Ingredients for Nanaimo Bars Nanaimo Bars Base - 1/2 cup (125 ml) butter 1/4 cup (60 ml) white sugar 5 Tbsp (75 ml) cocoa 1 egg 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla 1 3/4 cups (425...

Swedish Loop Cookies

Swedish Loop Cookies

I've had this recipe for Swedish Loop Cookies for years - and for the life of me can't remember where it came from. A good Christmas Cookie recipe that is super easy to make with lots of options. Very similar to a shortbread cookies, but not. Sprinkle or roll cookies...

Date-Rhubarb Squares

A healthy snack or quick breakfast! A great way to use up rhubarb from your garden without adding any extra sugar. The dates add all the sweetening needed. Full of good stuff and very little added sugar! Easy to prepare and will last several days in the fridge. You...

Ginger Cookies

Ginger Cookies have only recently become a favorite of mine. Over Christmas, I tried one at Anita’s Organic in Chilliwack. They were so delicious and for weeks I’d been thinking of making Ginger Cookies … and finally did yesterday! After doing some Ginger Cookie...

Easy, Delicious Baby Back Pork Ribs

(I remembered to take a photo before I popped the ribs in the oven, but forgot afterwords. Our friends, Jenny and Steve, introduced us to this easy way of cooking delicious pork baby back ribs. My husband and I love ribs, but while we'd eat them out they seemed like...

Flo’s Homemade Salsa

Flo’s Homemade Salsa

My mother-in-law, Florence, has made jars of salsa for me each year for closer to twenty years, until last year. Last year I decided it was time for me to start making my own, using her recipe. The main difference between Mom's recipe and mine is that I don't peel the...

Natural Facial Mask Made With Coffee & Honey

Looking for a homemade facial that uses natural ingredients to exfoliate, tighten and firm your skin? Here's one that uses ground coffee and honey. It provides a gentle facial scrub, lightly exfoliating your skin, and it leaves your face and neck feeling soft and...

Caesar Salad

A variation of Garlic Lover’s Caesar Salad ... and my new favourite Caesar. An easy to prepare and tasty Caesar Salad recipe. Ingredients - 2 - 3 anchovie fillets 6 to 8 garlic cloves 2 egg yolks 1/2 - 3/4 cup (125 - 185 ml) olive oil 1 tbsp (15 ml) Dijon 2 tsp red...