A few weeks ago I came across some cream horn tubes at a local kitchen store here in Vancouver. These tubes are usually used to make those tasty treats filled with whipped cream and made from a pastry dough. I thought they would be perfect filled with chicken salad. I used a sweet dough rather [...]

I’m very fortunate to be living on the West Coast of beautiful British Columbia. If you ever get the chance to visit here you will see some of the most gorgeous and stunning scenery in the world. We have many cruise ships that come through our port each year with many of the visitors saying [...]

A few weeks ago I came across these black sesame seed. They have an incredible charcoal color and a slight stronger flavor then the regular sesame seed you see in the local grocers. I also found out that black sesame appears frequently in Chinese, Japanese and Korean dishes where meat or fish is rolled in [...]

Well, as you can see I’m on this roasting kick these days. Everyone loves tomatoes in a sandwich, so why not place roasted tomatoes into the bread itself. I’m using these tasty trio-colored tomatoes. I cut them into wedges with a little crushed garlic, olive oil, thyme and freshly ground salt and pepper then roasted [...]

Well, I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter, filled with great food and perhaps a few chocolate bunnies too lol. We spent our Easter at my sisters house with the whole family. My brother in-law made a Turducken and it was amazing. For those who don’t know what a Turducken is, it’s a de-boned turkey [...]

Whole grains/ whole wheat breads are becoming very popular as people become more health conscious these days. I’ve had several people emailing me requesting more whole grain bread recipes. This is what I came up with. A very simple and tasty bread that is all about the grains. No filler in this one. No oil, [...]

I was planning to have a different recipe this week, but sadly it just wasn’t working for me. Have you ever had one of those ideas and you work and work on, but it just dies on you. Well, that’s what happened to me this week. I wanted to make these bunny tails for Easter. [...]

I was at Whole Foods and found these wonderful Beets. They had both the red and some gorgeous golden beets. I decided to roast them for supper because they looked delicious. Here is the recipe on how I roasted them. Roasted Beets 6 beets 2 tablespoons olive oil few sprigs fresh thyme 3 crushed garlic [...]

This months, Bread Baking Days #18 is being hosted by Mansi at the Fun & Food Blog. For those of you who don’t know what Bread Baking Day is all about. Well, it was first introduced by Zora of Kochtopf and this event is dedicated to bread. Each month a new theme is picked by [...]

I was out shopping at the Organic Grocers awhile back and came across a bag of Teff Grains. I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of these beautiful looking tiny grains before? I think it was the color that first caught my eye. These small grains had a mixture of beige, browns and a [...]