
Happy Monday! Hope you had a good weekend. I wanted to share with you a simple side dish that can replace your normal run of the mill grains such as rice or pasta. I find, for me anyway we tend to get in a rut of only choosing rice and pasta as our grains. I [...]

Hi and happy Monday… or so I hope it is a happy start to the week. I am still recovering from the excitement over the weekend. There was absolutely no time for house work this weekend, minus a little bit of tidying and cleaning up. It started on Saturday and ran through right until Sunday [...]

Happy Canada Thanksgiving! Ever have a lot of leftover vegetables from the night before and you are unsure what to do with them? Happens from time to time and I usually create a vegetable hash, veggie cakes or a vegetable puree but today I wanted to share something slightly different. Although this concoction is similar [...]

Happy Wednesday! Let me first off say thank you for all the comments on my latest BLOG Makeover Giveaway. It really is fun to give back to the blogging community and help friendly people out. I am really impressed with the excitement level and I cannot wait to announce the winner next week. So many [...]

Happy Friday! Sorry for the delay in posting. I actually never had time to write last night as we were at the house until 11:00pm prepping the upstairs for the painter today. Progress is moving along and things are starting to take shape. We picked out some plumbing fixtures today which are in stock… whoo [...]

Happy Monday to you! I hope you had a great weekend. My weekend was action packed with “the house”. We started painting the ceilings this weekend and I had to clean the whole house before paint starts on the walls (today). We are still having window problems – we had some more rain along with [...]

Happy Friday! Another week in August is gone. Can you believe it? I find it hard to believe but it is what it is. So here I am prepared to show you one of my favorite things to eat in August….. Corn on the cob. For this meal, it was a simple roasted chicken from [...]

Wow! What a weekend… Just to let everyone know – I am addicted to Zestycook and usually spend every waking minute either thinking about what to post, cooking in the kitchen, writing down ideas or checking out all the amazing food blogs around. I love it! My focus while working all weekend on Zesty was [...]

This week is another healthy addition in the grocery item of the week excitement. We have been buying these bags of goodness for a while now and I must say they actually taste good and are simple to prepare. Great for a quick vegetable as a side dish or adding into a casserole at the [...]