Chocolate and ginger may seem like an odd combination to some, but to our family chocolate covered gingers are a birthday and holiday staple. Boxes of dark chocolate gingers from a certain Canadian Chocolatier well known in western Canada are exchanged between Mom’s siblings on […]

One Sunday morning when my mother was catching up with one of her brothers, he mentioned that he loved my grandma’s banana bread.  We thought this was interesting because Mom had no memory of her making banana bread. So, we turned to Grandma’s recipe box […]

It may not officially be fall yet but it sure does feel like our favourite season, and with Thanksgiving only a few short weeks away we wanted to share another delicious recipe for dessert. This year the theme seems to be baking untraditional versions of […]

A trip to her grandmother’s always meant a delicious treat for mom, either cookies, cake or often time pie. My great grandmother was an excellent pie maker, as was my grandmother and my mother. Grandma and mom even worked in a bakery when I was […]

September 5th is an important day in our household as it’s my parents wedding anniversary. This year they are celebrating 34 years of marriage. They like to joke and say it’s been 34 long, hard years, but although long and hard, they have spent it […]

In our cooking posts we love to show you what to do with your leftovers so we can inspire you to make our recipes. Today’s post was created out of necessity. We had left over pineapple bits from our Tropical Coleslaw and needed to find […]

Everyone has a favourite family recipe, some recipes are known and made by a few family members, others are made and enjoyed by everyone. Today’s recipe is one that everyone in my family enjoys. Sometime in the 1950’s to 60’s my Great Grandmother Rankin would […]

Everyone has a favourite family recipe, some recipes are known and made by a few family members, others are made and enjoyed by everyone. This recipe was first made by my Great Grandmother Rankin and is made today by many of my family members. I […]

This week Mom and I decided we would share a no bake recipe which is perfect for the warm weather we are currently experiencing, no need to turn on the oven for this recipe. Although the recipe did not come from my grandmother’s recipe box […]

We don’t particularly like to turn on the oven in the heat of the summer, especially after the last week of record-breaking warm weather. Luckily, we decided to bake these muffins before the heat wave though I would’ve been tempted to turn on the oven, […]