By Occasion

Summer

Strawberry and Watermelon Salad

This recipe is by far one of my favourites. We published it last year on June 20th but we had to bring it back a bit earlier because this time

By Occasion

Garlic and Kale Dip

I had only one hope for this post: the dip would live in a bread bowl. I think life would be so much more satisfying if more foods were housed

By Occasion

The ALT Sandwich (Avocado, Lettuce and Tomato)

This was hard. I mean really hard. Hard like trying NOT to eat the cookies off the tray of homemade treats during the Christmas buffet kind of hard. Picking one

By Season

Sugar Cookies

This might be my favorite post in my favorite week. Favorite. Cookies are my achilles heel. I can’t ever turn one down. To say the least, I was excited for Ceri and

By Occasion

Mini Snowman Cupcakes

This recipe was originally posted last year  but they are so cute we decided to share them with you again… I don’t have a sister, unless you count my friend Janet. A friend

By Meal Type

Roasted Cauliflower Salad

For some reason I have more distinct memories of Thanksgiving dinners than I do of any other holiday. Hilarious, huge meals prepared with our American friends Paul and Kira (who

Picnics & BBQs

Grape Salsa

Our neighbors at the cottage are an amazing couple. From Vancouver, they travel every summer with their family to the tiny strip of Georgian Bay beach we all call home come June. Now, when

Lunch

Sweet Potato 5: Quick and Easy Summer Dinner Salads

Have we told you we’re contributing to iVillage.ca? This summer is flying by at such a pace that we’ve been on iVillage.ca for a month now and just realized we

Summer

Grilled Shrimp Salad

Esme used to say that she wanted to be a chef or a doc­tor. And Ben and I would always tell her that those were skill sets we’d be happy to inte­grate into

Red Meats

Sponsored Post: Get Grilling with Walmart, plus a special offer for SPC Readers

I’ve always loved cooking. And a good thing, too, since having kids means I’m doing it all the time. But grilling, sorry to say, I’ve always left to the men