It sure has been a while since a posted a recipe here. I’ll keep it short and sweet lest I raise the ire of the people who get upset about long form narrative blogs of days gone by. This is absolutely one of my family’s favourite dinners. All the kids love it which is such a relief since making a meal that pleases three kids of varying degrees of pickiness is exhausting. Just a couple notes on the ingredients – pancetta can be a pricey item so feel free to reduce the amount used to stretch it a bit. You […]
Clementine Yogurt Cake
Take a deep breath. We made it through 2020. The new year has begun and it doesn’t mean that we can forget about all the difficulties we faced. It does mean that we can breathe and move forward into a new year. I never aspired to live in interesting times as I would much rather read about them in history books or snuggle up to watch a documentary about them. Twenty-five years from now, the PBS twelve part documentary on 2020 is going to be one helluva watch. There are lots of ways that people will weather this shiny new […]
Teriyaki Beef Meatballs
*This post has been sponsored by Hello Fresh Off and on for the past couple of years I have been using subscription meal kits to help me out with weekly meal planning. I have subscribed to Hello Fresh when life was busy or overwhelming, like at the beginning of the pandemic, or I simply was in a meal rut. One of my favourite things about using Hello Fresh is that it introduces me to ingredients I didn’t know. In the summer I got one of the Hello Fresh boxes and one of the meals was this Teriyaki Meatball meal with […]
Porcupine Meatballs
What can I even say that doesn’t come off as trite about how the months have gone since my last post? It’s 2020, we all know the deal, this ongoing pandemic is incredibly difficult. I know that I am one of the lucky ones. My husband’s job is safe, none of my family have gotten sick, and I’m pretty sure my liver is doing ok despite being put through the wringer of late. At least I hope it is. We have been getting take-out about the same amount as we had done pre-pandemic and with three kids, we hardly ever […]
Chicken and Sweet Potato Tortilla Soup
Where do I even begin? It has been over a year and a half since I put up a new blog post. So much has happened since I last wrote. Many of you have been following my blog for years and may remember that this space used to be called Buffy & George. It was named after my dogs because this was going to be a fun spot where I would share stories of my life the way blogging used to be back in the day of the journal style blogs. Sadly, both Buffy and George have passed away. George […]
Camembert Baked with Herbs & White Wine
This is a paid post that has been sponsored by Fresh Wines. They provided me with a lovely case of VQA wine to try and to use in the development of this recipe. A couple of weeks ago a miracle happened. I was able to get eight moms together for a weeknight wine tasting session with relatively short notice. Honestly, it happened. When the case of wine arrived from Fresh Wines, I knew that I wanted a bunch of people to get together at my house for a tasting. I’m hardly a social butterfly and I also have a good […]
Linguine with Prosciutto and Pea Shoots
This is a paid post that has been sponsored by Fresh Wines. They provided me with a lovely case of VQA wine to try and to use in the development of this recipe. When summer finally comes I want to get out on those lovely restaurant patios and order a glass of chilled white wine to accompany some delicious summer menu item. The reality of having three little kids is that this seldom, ahem, I mean never happens. Instead of paying through the nose for a babysitter we sometimes feed the little ones an early dinner and get them into […]