This is one of our favourites.  Especially when it is made with fresh caught local Spot Prawns.  Rather than serve it as a “Tapa”  or an appetizer portion I serve it as a main course.  With lots of homemade French Baguette to sop up all the wonderful garlic sauce. Printable Recipe  Spanish Tapa –…

  I roasted a small sirloin tip roast for dinner last night.  The beef had been presalted on Monday.  I uncovered it early Tuesday morning so that it could air dry. Usually I serve roast beef with mashed potatoes, but, decided to go with David Leite’s recipe for Punched Potatoes.     I was recently gifted …

Rhubarb Pie is my all time favourite pie.  So I’m always excited for the first rhubarb of the season.    I baked two rhubarb pies yesterday using the same recipe I’ve been using for over 30 years.   It is Madame Benoit’s recipe and I’ve yet to find another rhubarb pie recipe that is better than…

There are a number of version of this recipe.  I found a recipe that appealed to me on another blogger’s site and I adjusted it to suit my taste.   The recipe called for both ketchup and sugar.  I dislike ketchup “immensely”. (sounds better than hate) so I never have it on hand.  Since the…

I told Moe that his  breakfast this morning was really  an act of love. Cooking a Dungeness crab, hand picking out the meat, making a homemade Hollandaise Sauce isn’t something that happens often around here. Last night, a friend of ours, Bud, the same friend that raises the big roasting chickens,  gave us a fresh…

I’m boring when it comes to pizza.  I tend  to stick a few of the more traditional toppings, like, pepperoni or Italian sausage, sauted mushrooms and maybe olives.     Moe is happy with whatever I make, but he also enjoys a few other toppings that I don’t care for.   Last night I  made…

  I’m an early riser.  Usually up between 5 am and 6 am.  I don’t leave for work until around 9:30 so I have a lot of time to kill.   Yesterday morning I decided to bake something.  Pineapples were on sale this week for $2.97.  Beautiful ripe golden pineapples.   What better to bake than a…

Lori of All That Splatters is hosting this week’s Saturday Blog Showcase.   My contribution this week is a recipe that I actually found on Lori’s Blog – Homemade Hamburger/Hot Dog Buns. I had nothing planned for dinner yesterday so I stopped at the grocery store on the way home from work and hoped for…

I roasted a chicken for dinner last night. It was huge.  It was just under 10 pounds.  Looked more like a small turkey  compared to the little three pound chickens I normally roast. The chicken was given to us by a friend who raises meat birds.  It has been a while since I’ve seen such…

  Those that know me are aware that I don’t like leftovers. (With a few exceptions).   Last night’s dinner though was a remake of the stuffed zucchini we had the night before.  We both really enjoyed that dinner so  I stuffed a couple of more zucchini with the  leftover pork/rice filling and made my version…