
Raspberries. Blackberries. Fresh lemon zest. Packed into a light fluffy muffin flavored with cinnamon and nutmeg. Interest you yet? Made these fellas last night and I have to say they were pretty darn yummy. Ingredients 2 1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour 2 Tbsp. Baking Powder 1 Tsp. Nutmeg 1 Tsp. Cinnamon 1 Tsp. Lemon zest [...]

Let me start out by saying that we have been some seeing technical difficulties with both the rss feed of the blog and the speed in which the page loads. We think we got all the problems addressed but if you continue to lack posts in your email or Google reader – I want to [...]

Happy Monday! A while back, I was fooling around with muffin recipes and I made an apple granola muffin that was a 6-7 out of 10. Apples were a little bland and they were nothing to facebook and tell your friends. This time around I altered the ingredients slightly. I used organic hemp granola with [...]

The end of the week is here! This week flew by, hard to believe we are in May already. Guess what I just remembered last night? It is mother’s day on Sunday. Opps sorry Mrs. Zesty – I will get on it as soon as possible and surprise you for Sunday. I have a couple [...]

Scrambling with work and Disney preparations – I decided to recycle one of my new found favorite ways to serve potatoes… Let me know if you like them. Growing up on PEI, potatoes are everywhere, and I have grown to love them. Whether they are mashed, baked, french fries, scalloped, pan fried, boiled, microwaved ( [...]

Happy Monday! Life seems to be back to normal, holiday season is behind us, regular work days are back in order. How is everyone doing? Hopefully everyone’s new years resolutions are still on track – I feel I am having a pretty good start to the new year so all is positive. Remember last week [...]

Happy Monday from a snowy PEI. As I sit at the dining room table the snow is falling, the trees are white, the ground is covered in snow and oh yes…. the snow plow just rolled down the road and plugged our driveway. Welcome to the first significant snowfall of the winter. Am I excited? [...]

Happy Wednesday! WOW what a week. I am pretty excited to see the holiday around the corner for tomorrow. I had a lot of fun this week especially the blogging aspect of it. Despite the fact that work and zestycook.com consumes a large majority of my waking day… I love it! No complaints from being [...]

Help The Students Event: Day 1 Welcome to the kick off of Help the Students event. For the next month you will be seeing recipes that are student friendly. Recipes that use simple, easy to find ingredients. Recipes that are straight forward and easy to prepare. You will also find tips, tricks, shopping ideas, economical [...]