My husband and I love making our own spice blends and rubs, and lately we have been hooked on our homemade fajita spice blend; using it on fish, chicken, pork and beef! Sometimes…. we don’t even make fajitas with it!! It’s incredibly easy to make in a flash and adds so much flavour that I guarantee you will wonder why you ever purchased the processed blends from the store! You can make your fajita spice blend, seal it in an air tight container and store…
It’s May long weekend here in Canada and I am sitting in my tent trailer camping as I write this. Not my usual camping, I have to admit. I am in a site that has power, water and sewer. None of these services I need. We bring our own power and water and the forest provides us with a latrine or we build a latrine. But it’s May long and we went out without a reservation, so the only site…
What is your favourite meal of the day? Mine is easily breakfast. But it has to be a savoury breakfast. None of the sweet syrups, sugary berries or whipped cream for me! I want salty, fatty bacon and sausages and creamy egg yolks please! However, if I ate the way I really wanted all the time, I would be having some weight problems, so to lighten up my savoury breakfast craving, I made these chicken breakfast sausage patties! They are…
Happy Cinco de Mayo!! If you read my post from last week, you will know that I am using the red enchilada sauce for today’s recipe! You can go back and read it and grab the recipe here. I’ll wait for you to come back. 🙂 Okay, now that you are ready, let’s make a Mexican casserole! Basically it’s kind of like a lazy enchilada recipe. I would say that this recipe is also on the healthy side of things!…
Cinco de Mayo is coming up and I will have two recipes for you to help celebrate. I cook and eat Mexican all year round because it is one of my favourite cuisines. I even have a huge cookbook called Mexico that I often look for inspiration. To start my mini-Mexico series of two posts, I bring to you homemade red enchilada sauce. It is way better than anything you can buy in a can and is not hard at…
Leeks are interesting to me. They are an allium, like the onion and garlic. But they don’t grow in a bulb like the onion or garlic; instead they have a cylinder of leaf sheaths, which is part of the edible portion of the leek. They have a mild onion flavour and are great in soups and stocks. Today I used a leek to make this turkey leek mushroom skillet. I had a carb loaded breakfast and lunch so I was looking…
When a two person household smokes a beef brisket, we are left with a lot of brisket leftovers; and the perfect way to make something with these leftovers is to make a gooey, leftover smoked beef brisket sandwich. I don’t want to call this a Philly cheese steak sandwich and cause controversy over if mushrooms and peppers are supposed to be on a Philly cheese steak sandwich; or if mozzarella cheese is the appropriate cheese to use. I don’t want to…
It is spring. But nights are still cold and our heater is running full every evening. Here in Alberta not only are the nights still chilly, but we also just encountered our first spring snow storm, on the first full day of spring. This is rather typical of Alberta weather and we easily could get one, two or maybe three more snowfalls before spring really sets in. A cinnamon bourbon toddy was the perfect remedy for such snowy day and luckily I just happened…
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