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Home Made Cooking

Baked Fish and Chips – A Twist on My 1st Canadian Food Memory

I love taking part in special projects, special initiatives and various challenges. This month I will be posting my first blog post as part of The Canadian Food Experience Project. For this project, myself and many other Canadian food bloggers (participants) will share our Canadian food stories and experience. What’s the purpose you ask?  We […]

Chicken Drumsticks and Olives
Home Made Cooking

Chicken Drumsticks and Olives – Kids’ New Favorite

Sometimes roasted or grilled chicken drumsticks simply do not do the trick with my kids. What, Drumsticks again? Mommy, can you peel the skin off? I don’t feel like eating this, and much more creative versions of this is what I’ll be getting If I keep making drumsticks the easiest and most obvious way. Well […]

Cakes and Cookies

Strawberry and Whipped Cream Spelt Squares

I recently discovered that you can actually bake pancake batter and get a whole different thing than pancakes. So of course, I decided to try it out with Spelt flour which is very low in gluten and so much better than the traditional white flour. This was super easy and ended up being so good. […]

Home Made Cooking

Almond Portobello Pasta

Pasta is always my go-to dish. Why? Well, two reasons: 1) The pasta I have at home is always Gluten-Free, which means that it is rice pasta, which means it’s less likely to give that ‘heavy’ feeling after eating it, and we like that. 2) There are so many options for pasta. You can add […]

Home Made Cooking

Thai Curry Chicken “Summer Fresh” Style

I love going to Thai restaurants. They are the kind of restaurants that use great spices in their food, something I miss dearly here in Halifax 🙂 I like it when the food is just a little bit spicy. Not too spicy to make your mouth burn but just spicy enough to make you crave […]

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Mediterranean Couscous Fritters

Almost every Saturday we have a nice family brunch. It usually consists of Bourekas, orange juice, feta and olives, hard boiled eggs and of course freshly chopped salad. Sometimes it’s Israeli chopped salad and sometimes I would take that extra step and make it a Tabbouleh Salad (Recipe HERE) with couscous; A few weeks ago I […]

Baked Goodies

Cheese and Olives Savory Scones

Saturday morning. I wake up, make myself a cup of coffee (that is, if my dear husband didn’t already make one for me), go over my emails, Facebook, Instagram, check to see that the kids are still somewhere around and then I start feeling hungry. But really, I have no desire to make something too complicated and […]

Home Made Cooking

Homemade Mac & Cheese

The easy solution for any lunch or dinner with the kids is Mac & Cheese. I have to confess that I’ve never made Mac & Cheese myself. I always have these kits with the macaroni and cheese powder you mix together and serve. I do buy the organic ones with no food colorings and all […]