This guacamole recipe is a great – no, huge – leap up from using one of those premade seasoning packets to mix into mashed avocados. We’ve been using a handwritten copy since the mid ’00s but it’s one that never made it to the site until I started getting serious about putting all my recipes online for the kids. Avocados…
Frog Eye Salad is a fruit salad which a tendency to make people give me a worried look, like I’ve lost my mind. Maybe so, but that’s more than this blog can cover. Once they’ve tried it, though, most really like it. It is not a universally loved food, but it is love by many, liked by most of the…
I’ve been using this recipe to make chicken strips and nuggets for….. ah, well, a long time anyway. It has never let me down and consistently makes a lot of full and happy bellies with everyone I’ve ever made it for. It was one of just five foods my pickiest of picky kids would eat when very little, and my…
Ranch Dressing. North Americans almost literally have a love affair with the stuff. I’m not immune to it’s delicious charms, either. However, there’s been a disturbing trend in the past 10-15 years, where bottled ranch is getting more and more disgusting. Cheap chemicals to maximize profits? Probably. But what’s happening is these mega corporations are taking what used to be…
Last year we put in the new compost bin that we picked up at Costco. It’s made in Canada from recycled plastic and not very pretty to look at, but that’s ok. Functional is good enough, pretty is just a bonus. I left it alone for a full year, only adding material. It has been nearing full, so it was…
I make this potato salad so often that I’d forgotten it was even on the website. I went to add it and there it was, from March 2009! I’ve only recently – in the past couple years – been brave enough to make this for people outside our house and have gotten nothing but happy stomachs and requests to make…