Stainless steel bakeware

The Food Renegade blog is giving away stainless steel bakeware. Go check it out, and while you’re there, if you have any interest in “real” food, fermentation, raw dairy, healthy fats, etc, have a look around the rest of her site too.

Real Food Online Course Giveaway

Food Renegade is giving away one spot in Kelly the Kitchen Kop’s Real Food for Rookies course. Don’t go check it out though, I want to win it all for myself. Do check out the rest of her site though. There is lots of great information about cooking [...]

“Hiding” Vegetables

We did baby-led introduction to solids with Meredith, and will do the same with Fiona. Proponents say that this method of introducing foods is more natural and that kids are less likely to be picky about what they eat. One of the keys is to offer variety. I find this part hard sometimes. For [...]

Cooking Spree

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We spent this past weekend cooking up a storm. I’m actually impressed with how much we managed to get done. We made chicken and beef broth, chili, steak and mushroom pie, prespiced whole chickens,  wontons, yam and bean and beef and bean burritos (with homemade tortilla shells and everything), hamburger soup, [...]

Baked Seasoned Salmon

This was delicious and really easy and quick. The salmon came out nice and moist and perfectly cooked.

1lb salmon filet mushrooms (optional, original recipe didn’t call for these but we thought it would be good) 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar 1 Tbsp worcestershire sauce 1 Tbsp lemon juice 1 tsp salt 1 tsp [...]

Homemade Beef Dip

One of Kris’ favorite meals when we go out to restaurants for lunch is beef dip, sometimes also called French dip. I’ve never attempted to make it before though. Our grocery store had roasts on for a really good price, and in the flyer next to the roasts was a big picture of beef [...]

Pantry Challenge

A pantry challenge basically means to go through your cupboards, refrigerator, and freezer, do a good clean out of anything that may not be usable anymore, and take inventory of everything else. Then, you make a meal plan based on that inventory. The goal is to buy as little as possible besides [...]

Thanksgiving

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We had a busy Thanksgiving weekend here. My twin sisters came to visit from Calgary. One of them has only visited once, and it was four or five years ago. The other has never been out here. So it was really neat to see them. I really haven’t spent much time [...]

Meal Plan

This last month we’ve really gone off the meal plan bandwagon. What with Kris’ surgery, lots of travel, Meredith teething, and just general laziness lack of motivation, it hasn’t been happening. But, I feel like we haven’t been offereing Meredith enough variety and she’s getting to that age where access to a variety of [...]

Pasta with mushrooms and capers in balsamic reduction

This was supper last night. It was the first time making it, and it was really delicious. Definitely a keeper recipe that we all enjoyed and that will be made again. The recipe as is is vegan and gluten-free. We added boneless, skinless chicken thighs that we cubed and marinated, and then grilled and [...]

“It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.”
~ Terence

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