I love a good salad.
I’ve been making my own salads and coming up with my own dressing since I was twelve. My basic salad was basically lettuce (probably iceberg for the crunchy juiciness), shredded carrot, diced green onion or finely sliced yellow onion, and diced tomato, all of that proportioned to taste. [...]
Last year, in a fit of homesickness, I decided it was about time we have a Christmas meal that was more French Canadian. My eldest children are Québecoises, after all, and hadn’t enjoyed a Québec style Christmas in ten years. So I looked up recipes for things like Tourtière and creton (something similar [...]
This is, without a doubt, the most successful recipe in my arsenal. My husband absolutely loves it, and likely wishes I would make it more often! Originally found at Cooking.com,1this one has been on my books for years.
Makes: Enough to fill a 9×13 pan
Prep Time: 30-40
Cook Time: 60
Ready In: 90-100
Servings: 8
Ingredients
For the Pastry:
2 [...]
Our very first Thanksgiving together, my husband and I established a tradition of making our meals non-traditional. That is to say, although we might make something that looks traditional, preparation and ingredients wouldn’t be.
Over the years we’ve also gone outside the American tradition, making an Italian meal, or improvising something more Middle-Eastern, and so [...]