I must confess; since I was quite young, I’ve been making the same recipe-without-a-recipe scalloped potatoes. I watched my mother make it several times and then made the recipe myself as a duplicate to hers, with a frustratingly low 65-70% success rate. I’ve always figured that my hit-or-miss percentage on this recipe was because I…
Tag: Vegetarian
Recipe Post: Cauliflower Cheese Pie
My father, a proud British man and a pretty decent plain-cook in his own right, had an absolute passion for making and eating Cauliflower Cheese Pie (which is of course a casserole, not a pie, but that was its name and that’s what I shall continue to call it). He also had quite a preference…
Recipe Post: Slow Cooker Versatile Vegetable Soup
There’s something about these shorter days and longer nights, and the cold, damp wind that seeps through every crack and crevice of your home to nip at your ankles and make you randomly shiver. It’s definitely time to put away the shorts, tank tops, and flip flops of our recent long, hot summer, and haul…
Recipe Post: Slow Loris Chili Con Carne…erm, I mean “Slow Cooker…”!
Sadly, the warm days of summer are a distant memory in this part of the world, but the one good thing about cold, snowy, drizzly, wintery weather is that hearty warming soups, stews, and chili come back in rotation at the dinner table! This bright, colourful chili con carne recipe is simple enough, but delicious…
Recipe Post: Freezer Batch Lasagna
There are few meals I love better than lasagna. I’m not Italian, but it was always a featured, special meal for our family at least a few times a year, and ALWAYS the main course on Christmas Eve. In the last 20 years, I must have made dozens of lasagnas, both meat- and veggie-based, and…
Recipe Post: Creamy Chicken Vegetable Pasta Bake (Veggie version too!)
Yay! I finally get to post about this delicious Creamy Chicken Vegetable Pasta Bake (dang that’s a long name!), as we finally cracked one open last week when I wasn’t feeling up to cooking due to YET ANOTHER BOUT OF THE FLU. This episode was brought to me by the letter Q, the number 4, and my…
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