Canadian summer recipes

Mom's Sangria

Sangria always reminds me of Spain, a place where you can drink Sangria just about everywhere. A fruity, refreshing drink in the summer or any…

Peter's Bluenose Seafood Casserole

Poutine from Québec

A poutine is a Quebec traditional dish. It is served in most fast food restaurants and consists of french fries and cheddar cheese curds covered…

Herbed Tomato Sauce for Chicken or Veal Parmigiana

You will love this homemade Herbed tomato sauce. I serve it on top of veal or chicken cutlets and spaghettini…

Easy Tandoori Chicken

An easy, quick, tandoori chicken dish. A delicious meal for the whole family.

Smoked salmon WITHOUT SMOKE

An excellent gravlax appetizer. Serve with or without cream cheese on thin crackers or fresh baguette slices.

Blue gardenia salad

This wonderful salad is the specialty of a restaurant in my area. It is my all time favourite salad. It tastes fantastic and is very garlicky.…

Old Fashioned Chocolate Malt

This recipe is adapted from the Original Old Fashioned Malted Chocolate invented by "Pop" Coulson available at Walgreens, Hudson Bay Co., Woolworth…

Curried lentil and rice salad

A flavourful, curried lentil and rice salad for healthy conscious cooks.

An All in One Meal in No Time

It is truly amazing and quite amusing when you think about how food and cuisine have evolved through time and different cultures. Take, for example,…

Chicken Enchilada Soup

This soup consists of ingredients you can whip together quickly, throw into the slow cooker and forget about until chow time. And, as an added…

Apple, Cinnamon Rice Pudding

Rice pudding with twist. My husband's favourite dessert.

Warm artichoke dip

A tasty, elegant, warm dip to serve with rice or water crackers when entertaining.

Herbed Dip

This is my favourite low calorie, fat free, savoury, all purpose dip. You can use it on baked potatoes or as a chip dip or as a dip for fresh…

Sunflower oil pie crust

This pie crust is ideal for vegetarians AND vegans. Sunflower oil is used instead of lard. It has now become my goto pie crust recipe for all my…