Butter Tarts are a Canadian treat. I’ve never had them outside of Canada. I made a pastry for two single crusts today and used a little more than half to make a quiche . I had enough dough left for a small tart so rather than make individual butter tarts I made one big one….

Tomato – Broccoli – Cheddar ……………. I don’t make Quiche often and when I do I don’t follow a recipe. I use what I have on hand. Today’s quiche was based on tomatoes, chives and fresh basil from our garden, broccoli, and green onions from the Duncan Farmers Market, Canadian 3 year old white cheddar,…

Fresh picked from my garden. I picked two Black Krims this morning. This is an Heirloom tomato. A dark red sweet tomato. My favourite breakfast “well toasted” toast topped with thinly sliced tomatoes with lots of fresh ground pepper and sea salt.

The last of the ten pounds of blueberries went into a pie. This is my favourite blueberry pie recipe. Another recipe from the Canadian Living collection. I posted this recipe back in January. It has been a while so I’ll post it again. Blueberry Tart/Pie==================I’ve made this recipe for years. I think it was from…

I’ve been using up the last of the ten pound box of local blueberries I bought last week. So far we have had blueberry scones , blueberry muffins, a blueberry upside down cake and breakfast this morning was blueberry pancakes. And I have a blueberry pie in the oven as I type. I used my…

OOOOH this steak was sooooooo good. I picked up three boneless rib steaks (think Prime Rib AAA Alberta Beef). Each of the steaks weighed more than one pound. Two went into the freezer and I presalted the third one. It was also rubbed with fresh garlic, lots of coarse black pepper and fresh rosemary and…

I have a number of blueberry muffin recipes that I love,but I thought I would try a different recipe today. One I found on another blog “Helena Bakes”. The blueberries were local and I made a couple of minor changes to the recipe. I subbed sour cream for most of the milk and added a…