recipes

The Christmas season has settled upon the Hooton household. It’s been quite a year! Highest moment was Theo proposing to Meggie at…

For a Maritimer, seafood and Christmas go hand in hand. It’s not that we don’t eat fish and seafood the other eleven…

Ralph and I never used the word ‘step’ in our family language. We were never step parents. Our children were never step…

You’d be hard pressed to knock on any door in the Maritimes and not find a recipe for lobster chowder. It would…

This is the perfect holiday pot luck dish. It takes seconds to assemble then gets popped in the oven so you can…

I’m days away from hosting our twelfth ‘Christmas on Carmarthen’ party. The girls were fourteen the first year that we hosted what…

Fruitcake is one of those sweets that people either love or politely refuse. It’s an old-fashioned dessert that was lovingly ‘put up’…

I’ve begun party prep countdown for Christmas on Carmarthen! We live on Carmarthen St., hence the name. I’ve decided on a mixture of fourteen different…

Dark Chocolate Shortbread Cookies are a delectable journey of indulgence. The velvety embrace of rich, buttery shortbread perfectly complement the intensity of…

I mentioned a while ago that I am attempting to feed myself well despite being crazy busy at work and at home.…