This smoked tomato & herb cream cheese spread comes together quickly with just a few simple ingredients and delivers a powerful punch of flavour for little effort. In fact, it’s so easy, I’m encouraging you to play with your food today by NOT giving you quantities or even a recipe to follow! Ingredients? Yes, kind of. Ready to play?
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Scalloped Sweet Potatoes
Scalloped potatoes are the perfect comfort food for when the cold weather arrives. Replacing the typical white potatoes with sweet potatoes kicks it up a notch and turns this classic side dish into a rich creamy indulgence everyone will love.
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Salads: Not Just for Summer
This may surprise you, but salads are not just for summer. Now is the time to take advantage of fresh fall harvests by adding your favourite fall foods to a salad. Not to mention, it’s a tasty way to add more fruits and veggies to your day.
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The Taste of Summer: Tomato Sandwich Recipe
Nothing says summer like an old-fashioned tomato sandwich.
I lived for tomato sandwiches when I was younger – it was a lunchtime staple introduced to me by my dad. Fresh, ripe slices of juicy tomato between two slices of soft bread covered with mayo. It was freshness at it’s finest!
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Grilled Pesto Peppers (gluten-free)
Summer and deck weather have finally arrived in Ontario, and that means it’s grilling season!! These pesto and cheese-filled peppers are a quick and easy appetizer that come together in minutes and make a great appetizer, snack or light lunch all summer long.
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Snack Attack! Pizza Quinoa Bites
We’re down to the final two exams in our house this week and all of our energy is being directed to studying rather than making meals. So this weekends food prep was focused on quick and easy snack foods that would help keep us fueled and satisfied while we hit the books. I decided to switch up one of our favourite recipes this week and created these pizza quinoa bites.
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Egg Bites: We’re Ready for Exam Week
Raise your hand if you survived another weekend of food prep! Now pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself. Way to go!
This weekend was an extra long food prep session in our house: it’s exam week here for our oldest daughter, so I wanted to make sure the refrigerator was fully stocked with quick go-to grab items that would keep her going as she struggled with study time.
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