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Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins

Even though I write a blog about cooking healthy meals and snacks for and with kids, I still struggle with what to make for dinner every night. Ok, I’m going

Spring

Giving Up Gluten: 5 Stages of Grief

Saying Goodbye to anything that you have a relationship with comes with various emotional swings. Why should removing something form your diet be any different? The following is a fairly

Vegetables

Travel Snack Week: Sweet Potato Chips with Honey Yogurt Dipping Sauce

Our family is definitely not travel amateurs. Scarlett has been on a plane practically every few months since she was two months old. It’s the reality when you don’t live

Dairy

Travel Snack Week: Ham & Cheese Muffins

March break is just around the cor­ner here in Ontario, but where ever you are there’s some kind of spring break from school com­ing up. Which, if you’re lucky and

Picnics & BBQs

Lisa’s Letters Home: North African Meatballs with Cous Cous

Most meals I make are cooked in one pot because a) they are great time savers and b) I hate doing the dishes. I puffy heart love my slow cooker

Summer

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

Fall

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

Dinner

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

Fall

Apple Pie Pancakes

It’s no mis­take that we have a week themed around com­fort foods. I’m a fan of most dishes cat­e­go­rized as comfort–foods like mac and cheese, pan­cakes, tuna casse­role, apple pie or grilled

By Meal Type

Lisa’s Letters Home: Grilled Duck and Noodle Soup

My grandmother was Japanese-Canadian, which meant that our holiday dinner table had an unusual hybrid of things like roast turkey and sushi rolls. Although she was a tiny woman who