Summer

By Meal Type

Coconut Flour Pancakes

I like wheat flour, don’t get me wrong. One of my favourite things in the world is homemade crusty bread still warm from the oven, slathered in butter. Sadly, wheat

By Ingredient

Sweet Corn Tostada

As a Mexican food fan living life in Canada you can imagine my pickings for authentic restaurants are slim. It’s only made worse by my boastful husband who loves to

Picnics & BBQs

Almond Flour Cheese Chips

When I’m not stuffing my face with cake (and let’s face it, ideally that would be a daily event), I try to avoid wheat and high sugar foods to help

Fruits

Blueberry Yogurt Cake

Still looking for recipes to use up all the wild blueberries piling up at the market? Look no further. The basic recipe for the French yogurt cake can be adapted

Seafood

Grilled Shrimp Guacamole Salad

Our lovely Lisa is on a well deserved holiday (crossing our fingers that none of her kids come down with chicken pox this year!). So, we’re bringing back an oldie

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Grilled Corn and Green Bean Salad

Whenever August arrives I’m a bit conflicted. Part of me wonders where the hell half the summer has already gone while the other half of me is psyched for the

Picnics & BBQs

Chef Notes: Smoking Made Easy Peasy

Just the idea of smoked food gets my mouth watering. Who doesn’t love smoked oysters, smoked turkey breast, or smoked beef brisket? It’s one of the oldest ways of preserving

By Season

Lisa’s Letters Home: Curry In a Hurry

One of the most quintessentially British dishes isn’t fish and chips, pie and mash, or toad in the hole – it’s a good ol’ curry. One of our son’s first foods was

By Meal Type

Chef Notes: Mussels

I came to love mussels when I moved to New England.  I started slowly, first I would only sop up whatever buttery, garlicky broth was left after my fiancé Al

Fruits

Eat a Rainbow Salad (or How to Get Kids to Feel Good About Eating Healthy)

Okay, here’s a recent dilemma of mine. Although I’m far from perfect (really, really so far) when it comes to what I feed my kids, it’s come up in several