recipes

My Weekly Menu Plan #3

September 23, 2012 By Jo-Anna 1 Comment

This has been a long week here our house!

A lot of activities.

A lot of tantrums and potty training mishaps, lol!

And to top it all off, a stomach but hit here. Gotta love those back to school bugs.

Good times I tell ya!

Anyway, here’s a little recap of what went on here on the blog last week:

I put together a fall table scape, in prep for Canadian Thanksgiving.
Made some Monster Cookies for my little monsters.
I added a new blog feature! Now my recipes will all be printable!
And right now I’m putting together my fall mantel, my fall porch and some fall decor in the house. So stay tuned!

Now on to dinner!

Sunday:
Dinner at my Sister’s! She’s an amazing cook!

Monday:
Mexican Layered Dip Tacos with Spanish Rice

Tuesday:
BBQ Chicken, Zucchini Biscuit Bake, Carrots

Wednesday:
Mac & Cheese, Fresh Veggies

Thursday:
Pot Roast, Mashed Potatoes

Friday:
Pizza night! I know it seems like we do this a lot, but I guess that’s just life! A stomach bug hit our house, and momma was exhausted. Exhausted.

Saturday:
Beef Barley Soup (made with the leftovers from our Pot Roast)

Here’s hoping for a good week ahead!

Have a delicious week!

Yummy Linking:
Flour me with love, OrgJunkie

Filed Under: menu plan, recipes, Weekly Menu Plan, What's For Dinner

15 Fresh & Delicious Summer Salads

June 14, 2012 By Jo-Anna 4 Comments

We love salads in our house, and try to have one with every meal.

So that means, I need to keep things creative and interesting!

Plus I really enjoy trying new recipes, and I thought you might too!

So I put together all the salads that I have blogged about thus far!

I hope you enjoy them!

From top left to right…here we go…

Do you love salads? What are some of your favourites?

Have a delicious day!

Yummy Linking:
At the Picket Fence, My Romantic Home, Whipperberry, Five Days 5 Ways, Craft-O-Maniac, A Bowl Full of Lemons

Filed Under: 15 fresh and delicious summer salads, 7 layer salad, Caesar salad, corn salad, couscous, greek salad, pasta salad, pea salad, potato salad, quinoa, recipes, salad rolls, vinaigrette

Cookbook Comforts

February 28, 2012 By Jo-Anna 8 Comments

I’m really discovering that my passion is food.

Baking, cooking…I love it all!

(and I especially love blogging about it…)

I want to expand my skills and be more adventurous with the recipes I choose!

It’s definitely a big goal of mine!

But, I have my comfort recipes and recipe books.

You know the ones…we’ve all got our go-to books when you are looking for something to create!

The books that we know will always give us a recipe that will turn out!

These are mine!

My most favourite cookbook of all time is the joy of Cooking!

This book was a wedding gift from a very special lady in our lives…our best friend’s mom, Mary.

I can’t tell you how many times this book has been opened! So many times.

There are pancake batter splatters, flour between the pages, and it’s falling apart at the seams…literally…(hmmm maybe a crafty diy coming up?)

I love this book. It has cooking answers to everything. Even how to cook a snake if you wanted. Ick.

But heh, you never know…

The Best of Bridge Series is an amazing set of recipe books!

Again, I have perused and read these books countless times,

and have made more recipes from them than I can count.

And one of the nicest things about these books, is that the authors are ladies from Canada! Woot!

And literally, almost every woman in my family owns these books!

They are treasures, and stand the test of time!

I can’t leave out my own recipe stash!

I put together this recipe folder for all of my recipes :
It holds all my recipe cards, and the magazine cut outs & newspaper clippings
that I have collected over the years!

I love this folder. It’s so comforting and holds so many recipes that I love,

not to mention all the memories tucked inside!

So that’s it!
These are my most favourite cookbooks and recipe sources!
Now what are yours?
Leave a comment!! I’d love to know!