Here I am with another Meals of the week post, this one from the 26th of March to the 1st of April.  I think I will be making this a regular thing. I have always been interested in what other people are eating on a daily basis and I think other people will be interested in the things that I eat on a daily basis, at least for my main meals anyways. If nothing else this could serve as inspiration for people who are finding themselves in a bit of rut when it comes to meal planning and the like.  I am a senior citizen who lives on my own. Just myself and my two cats. W ..read more

    I really love Oatmeal Cookies.  I think of all the cookies, next to peanut butter, oatmeal are my favorites.  When my children were growing up I always made sure the cookie jar was filled  with fresh cookies when they got home from school. When I was a child we only ever very rarely got home baked cookies. My mother worked full time and she was not a woman who liked anyone messing about in her kitchen.  We  mostly got store bought cookies unless it was Christmas.   I determined when I was very young that I was never going to work outside t ..read more

  One of my favorite side dishes has always been creamed corn. I normally buy it in a can and I will be honest with you here, I have been known to eat it with a spoon right from the can! ? Yes, I do like it that much! I discovered this Easy Creamed Corn recipe on a page called Sweet Little Bluebird the other day and I was instantly drawn in.  It promised a delicious side dish of creamed corn made from scratch in virtually minutes!   I thought it might make a lovely Holiday side dish for our upcoming Easter dinner. Ham and corn go beautifully together.  I am ..read more

    I quite simply adore cabbage.  I love it in any way shape or form. I love it raw. I love it cooked. I love cabbage. My family has long been cabbage lovers. I think the only one of us that is not fond of this humble vegetable is my father. When we were growing up and my mother made cabbage rolls, he would swap me his cabbage for my meat.  (I was never fond of the meat part.)     This is a recipe I discovered on a blog called Girl on the Range.  It looked so delicious. Wedges of cabbage, braised until meltingly tender in a lush cream sauce flavor ..read more

  I love Pierogi.  They are one of my favorite foods of all time. They were not something I grew up with, but something which I discovered when I moved out to Winnipeg to get married in 1977.   I remember being in a restaurant at Polo Park and my husband told me I should try Pierogi.  They were actually deep fried and came to the table all crisp and hot with a small bowl of sour cream and garnished with fried onions.  I fell in love.   We left Winnipeg a year later and moved to Calgary. I made friends with a lovely woman named Esther. Esther ha ..read more

    Easter is just a few weeks away and I wanted to come up with a viable option for the smaller family to enjoy for Easter Dinner. When I was growing up and for all of the years I was raising my family we always enjoyed Ham at Easter.  When mom cooked it, it was always cooked the day before and served cold and sliced, whereas in my own family we always enjoyed it hot.   As a person living on my own now, I didn't want to have to be eating ham for days on end after the holiday meal.  I know many others are in the same situation and there are also many of us ..read more

  I have a pasta obsession.  Its true. I put my hand up.  I cannot resist a dish of fine pasta.  I collect pasta like little boys collect bubblegum cards as well.  I have a cupboard full of a whole variety of different pasta shapes and sizes. Whenever I see pasta on offer at the shops, or if I see a different shape that I would like to try, I cannot resist buying it.  Dry pasta will keep for a very long time in the cupboard and in fact it will keep for two to three years past its sell by date in all actuality.   That makes it an excellent stor ..read more

  Todays recipe is for an easy, yet elegant fish supper that I think everyone will love.  Not only is it delicious, but it goes together very quickly and easily. I was inspired by a recipe I found in a Cook's Country book entitled One Pan Wonders.  I have adapted it to use what I had on hand, to make it a bit less complicated, and also to make it so that you can create as many or as few servings as you require, with quantities today being given for one serving.    I confess I forgot to put the lemon slices on when I was taking the photos, but I know y ..read more

    The recipe I am sharing with you today comes from an old cookbook of mine, The Hershey's 1934 Cookbook. When we were living in Meaford Ontario about 30 years ago now, there was a shop at the edge of town that was filled with nothing but books. I used to spend hours in it perusing them. You could often get brand new copies of very old books at a very decent price.  I had copied the recipe into my Big Blue Binder when I moved over to the UK, which is why I still have the recipe. The book got left behind when I moved back to Canada. One day I may replace it. I don't know ..read more

      One thing which I really learned to love when I was in the UK was lamb. It was not something which I had ever really eaten very much of prior to going over there to live.   At our wedding supper I had roasted saddle of lamb and it was delicious. I fell in love. It was so tasty! My mother had only ever cooked lamb chops once for us when we were children. I think it was mutton actually as it smelled like she was burning mittens when she was cooking them. None of us would touch them.   Mom had always spoken fondly of a lamb stew she had enjoyed whil ..read more