By Season

Fall

Pumpkin Oat Muffins with Spiced Cream Cheese Spread

I’m a very sentimental, nostalgic and overall warm and fuzzy kind of person. So if you ask me on any given day what I’m most thankful for I’ll probably get

By Ingredient

Pumpkin Bread Pudding

Because I’m one of those people who makes everyone at the Thanksgiving table say what they’re thankful for (and because I just finished a freelance article of how to stop

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Slow Cooker Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich Oatmeal

One lazy, hot summer morning this past August I was sitting with our cottage neighbours, Paul and Lizzie, on their deck discussing breakfast. It’s usually what we did in the

Lunch

Turkey Meatloaf with Apple and Sage

It’s amaz­ing that I’m still feed­ing my fam­ily. Since our book How to Feed a Fam­ily launched on Sep­tem­ber 3rd, it’s been super dif­fi­cult to keep up with the pace of

Summer

Apple Upside Down Cornmeal Cakes

If there is a consolation for summer’s end and that consolation came in the form of food, it would be apples, no? They are the very essence of goodness. And,

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Lisa’s Letters Home: Char Siu Pork

Oh, hello kitchen! I’ve missed you! It was only one week but I am so pleased that you’re back with your working ovens, a stove top, and running water. You’re

Red Meats

Rosemary and Dijon Lamb

One of our favourites from June 3o, 2011….. I have to be honest. I hate lamb. Well, not so much anymore. Ever since I was a kid I didn’t like eating

Fall

Gluten Free Butternut Squash Soup Topped with Spiced Pumpkin Seeds

It went from the heart of summer heat and humidity to deep fall within 24 hours in Toronto this week. There are things I hate about our moody weather (like

By Meal Type

Chicken Cacciatore

We are in the thick of it, people. Three morning shows, plus three newspaper interviews and that’s just this week. Last week we did 21 radio interviews! Not that I’m

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Avocado and Cream Cheese Sandwich

Our book came out the same day school started here in Toronto. So we sent our babies away (you bet I cried) and then introduced our newest family member to