• DESSERTS

    Pear and Chocolate Oat Crumble (Nigel Slater)

    Now for all you Canadian Cooks – get your conversion calculators ready or your kitchen scales – it may help you with the British measurements.  I just kind of roughly converted mine – crisps can be quite forgiving. Ahhh Nigel Slater….you never dissapoint me!  I have such a foodie crush on his brilliance!  He is just truly inspiring!  OK enough about Nigel – lets get to this easy yummy recipe of his. I bought a huge bag of ripe pears at the grocers the other day – when this morning it dawned on me that we may not eat them all up before they go bad, so flipping through one…

  • BREAKFAST

    Potato Feta Bacon and Scallion Frittata

    If there’s one thing I’ve learned as a Mother of three boys – the best way to lure sleepy kids/teenagers out of bed – BACON!  Yep – that’s it!  Once they smell bacon cooking in the kitchen – they seem to come running!  Just a little trick I’ve got up my sleeves! This was the case today when I started to whip up this Frittata..as soon as the bacon hit the pan I had three boys up in my kitchen wondering what was cooking! I have 2 full bookshelves of cookbooks that I’ve been collecting over the years…and I actually de-cluttered and gave away a bunch last month because simply…