Dinner tonight was Rack of Pork.   I presalted the rack on Thursday night and this morning before leaving for work I seasoned the roast  with fresh sage, garlic and fresh ground black pepper. I worked the new store in Victoria today and  knew I would be late getting home from work so Moe’s job…

This week’s Saturday Blog Showcase recipe is another recipe from  The New Portuguese Table cookbook by David Leite. White Beans and Sausage (Feijao branco e chourico da minha familia) I knew that this would be one of the first recipes I would try out of this book.  Moe loves beans of any kind, especially baked…

  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…