Easy to follow, adaptable recipes for the busy home cook.
This delicious golden gluten-free Orange Polenta Cake is moist, rich and bursting with zesty orange flavor. It’s easy to make as it has no layers, no filling and no icing. Eight other women and I organized an in-home cooking class and dinner with Chef Michele Lee-Pollack from My Place For Dinner Cooking School (Toronto, Canada)….
No mixer needed for this delicious, super moist banana bread. We’ve gathered all the tips and variations you’ll need to ensure success and adapt the recipe to your own tastes and preferences. If you google ‘banana bread recipes’, you will get about 278 million results. They are all fairly similar (ok, I didn’t read 278…
This rich, creamy, flavor packed Pumpkin Risotto recipe in the instant pot is pure comfort food. It’s a knockout vegetarian dinner for Fall or Winter. Sub in butternut squash if you can’t find pumpkin. As with our Lemon Risotto with Grilled Vegetables, I find that the Instant Pot does a very good job with risotto…
Our best chicken quesadilla recipe with fresh basil, spicy sweet chili sauce, peaches, brie and a Balsamic glaze drizzle couldn’t be easier. Perfect for summer or any weeknight meal. In the lazy days of summer, with some leftover chicken on hand and some juicy ripe peaches, you can have a snack, dinner or appetizer on…
This moist apple cake recipe is a wonderful celebration of Fall. The cake is delicious on its own, but a real standout with a drizzle of silky bourbon caramel sauce. I make this apple cake recipe every year with a combination of seasonal apples or my faves, Gala apples. It’s a wonderful holiday or potluck…
Sweet cherry tomatoes and Moroccan spices come together in 20 minutes to make a rich, rustic, spicy cherry tomato sauce that you just want to put on everything! I recently had the pleasure of hosting an online cooking class with Bonnie Stern. Bonnie is an award winning cookbook author, founder a popular Cooking School in…
Summer ripe peaches, oranges, lemons and sugar are boiled (without pectin) to make this sweet and citrusy peach marmalade. Great jam, little effort (4 simple ingredients). I just can’t get enough of peaches during the short peach season we have in Toronto so I try to use them every way I can – for breakfast,…
This healthy, easy gazpacho recipe screams summer freshness. And it satisfies those who prefer their gazpacho smooth or chunky. Spoon it or sip it. Gazpacho is essentially a tomato and vegetable soup that originates from the region of Andalusia in Spain. The core ingredients are tomatoes, cucumber, onion, olive oil, garlic, peppers and vinegar. There…
