Salads

Vegetarian Spread - Roasted Zucchini onion and Walnuts
Home Made Cooking, Salads

Roasted Zucchini, Onion and Walnut Spread

Isn’t life amazing? And busy? And amazingly busy? Yeah, I’ve noticed. The fact that I wasn’t posting for a while does not mean I stopped cooking (well maybe for a bit there) or eating (I wish). I WAS keeping it on the low side though, which means I preferred to snack on things than to […]

Grilled Vegetables at Home with Lemon Garlic Marinade
Home Made Cooking, Salads

Lemon and Garlic Grilled Vegetables – Using your countertop home panini press to grill vegetables

It’s starting to look really nice out here. Of course, we still get the occasional rain and wind but it’s mostly above zero temperature and the feeling that winter is (finally!) over. And when the weather is nice, all I want to do is grill my food. I just love the BBQ and the fact […]

Salads

Scrumptious Lentil kohlrabi Salad with Roasted Sesame

Some ingredients are seriously under appreciated. When was the last time you had Kohlrabi for example? or when was the last time you used lentils in a SALAD. Yeah..thought so. That’s why when I saw that Canadian Lentils  are having a ‘lentils recipe revelations challenge’ I immediately knew I want to put the under appreciated […]

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Rice Salsa in Baked Wonton Cups

When I was asked if I’ll take part in the “USA Rice Blogger Challenge” by USA Rice Federation, the answer was clear – YES. I received a few recipes for review, photos, info sheet and a great video and the task was to create something creative using USA rice. We all use rice, some on […]

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Tomato Salad With Fresh Mint and Goat Cheese – Mint and Goat Cheese Caprese

  It’s Friday, I’m making dinner, I’m done cooking and now moving on to the salad, I open the fridge and find out that all I have is tomatoes…great! Now what? I improvise. If there’s anything that’s really refreshing in the summer and really comforting during the winter is mint. Yup, fresh mint leaves. I […]

Seared Maple Basil Mini Scallops
Home Made Cooking, Salads

Seared Maple Basil Mini Scallops – A Nova Scotian Delight

Summer is here! It’s 29 degrees Celsius outside as I type this and I am just thrilled! Of course, witnessing the sun and warmth through a glass window while sitting in my office at work is not your prefect definition to “enjoying summer” but I’ll take it! (Since really, there is no other option). So […]

Homemade Dill Pickles
Home Made Cooking, Salads

Homemade Dill Pickles

I love beer! There, I said it! But what does it have to do with this post? Ahhhh…this post is about one of the best things to go with beer – Dill Pickles. And not just any dill pickles, homemade ones. Ever since I can remember myself my favorite type of dill pickle was the […]

Mediterranean Quinoa Salad with feta cheese, kalamata olives, oregano, basil
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Mediterranean Quinoa Salad

I think that people think that if you love cooking and baking you must love most foods. Well, I’m not sure about the others but I don’t. For example, I will never be able to clean up a fish and then cut and cook it, same goes for chicken. I also don’t like quinoa, brown […]