Dinner

By Meal Type

Warm Quinoa and Kale Salad

I am probably the only person who gives up gluten and promptly gains 5 pounds by recipe testing desserts. Gah! Thank god it’s summer, and time for salads: interesting, satisfying,

By Ingredient

It’s All Good: Gwyneth’s Turkey Meatballs

I’m going to file this book in my cook book shelves under “I don’t know how she does it.” I feel like “My Father’s Daughter” just came out when “It’s

Dinner

Beef Curry

“Don’t freak out” is how my daughter greets me when I pick her up from school when she’s done poorly on a spelling test or lost a mitten or, last

By Season

Kale Mac and Cheese

I never know when the wrench is going to get thrown into our day. I’ve gotten used to it though. I make an awesome plan and then wait for Scarlett

Herbs

Lemon Thyme Chicken Burgers

The only pos­si­ble rea­son that my home isn’t the set­ting of a hit real­ity show called “Will They Miss the Bus?” is that Mark Bur­nett has not stopped by at 8:05

Pasta

Giving Up Gluten, Part 2: Like molten bicycle spokes

When one person in the family goes gluten free, everyone to one degree or another is going to have to get on board, right? My kids eat a lot of

Vegetables

Italian Roast Chicken with Bell Peppers and Olives

Is there anything better than a new cook book? All the possibilities they represent, all the changes to your usual cooking roster? I love it. I always spend quite a

By Season

Chili Mac

After a rocky start, laced with a few extra urgings of “Hurry up!”, a melt down over appropriate outfits for a snowstorm and a soggy schlep to the bus stop

By Meal Type

Chicken and Butternut Squash Risotto

I have this new friend. She’s actually my neighbour. We both love interior design, chatting, 80’s music, chatting, cooking and chatting. In other words, we spend a lot of time

Fall

Lisa’s Letters Home: Beef With Mushroom Sauce

If snuggling up to a pot roast is wrong, I don’t wanna be right. You know when people ask you in person/a Facebook quiz/in primary school via a wadded up