pasta/risotto

This is my favourite time of year in the garden. The trees and shrubs are heavily laden with blossoms or buds waiting…

About forty years ago, I returned from a European school holiday understanding that there was more to Italian food than red sauce…

In roughly six months my life will turn upside down. Gone will be my delicious self-directed schedule, answering only to me and,…

I know that when you think of meat sauce for pasta, you’re picturing a roaring fireplace, snow falling gently and warm woollen…

Hot Caprese Pasta Salad is a keeper! My Hot Caprese Pasta Salad isn’t your typical  North American macaroni pot-luck go-to. Instead of…

I love May Day! A day to celebrate springtime with revelry and feasts paying homage to fertility and planting. Oh to be…

Ralph loves to capture my intense sense of fashion! It had to have been -25*C with the Arctic gale howling across our farm…

Being married to a hockey player has tried my patience more than once. When the girls were little, it was nothing for Ralph to…

One of the things that I enjoy most about traveling is coming home and trying to recreate some of the wonderful food…

So here I am, once again, sitting in front of my computer, coffee cup full, my camera loaded with pics and so…