As a child I remember being excited for the Canada Day long weekend. School was out, summer vacation was just getting started. If the weather was nice maybe Mom and Dad would pack up the cooler and take us to Miquelon Lake. Sometimes we were […]

Although born and raised in the city my paternal grandpa was a country boy at heart and spent his adulthood living in the countryside. He passed away in March, so we wanted to celebrate his memory with this Father’s Day table setting. The Grandpa I […]

Based on the amount of baking we do you would think Mom and I love all things sweet. And we do, but we both don’t like anything overly sweet. This is perhaps why we love this brownie recipe as much as we do. Yes, it […]

It’s Father’s Day and If there is one thing we love about holidays like this, it’s that we have a reason to celebrate and show our love with food. So, today’s recipe is in honor of two father’s, my grandpa who recently passed in March, […]

Whenever we discover a recipe we like, or in this case rediscover a recipe we haven’t made in awhile we can’t help but come up with variations. That is exactly what happened with our lemon square recipe. The lemon is great, but we thought why […]

When we first started the blog, our intention was to share my grandmother’s recipes with our family and evoke memories they had of those who are no longer with us. Mom and I will always enjoy sharing those recipes but the more we do this […]

Mother’s Day was a simple affair this year with just Mom and I sharing a meal together. Mom made a delicious pasta dish and I made strange looking cheese bread. Not everything turns out as planned and like the delicious but strange looking bread, our […]

Even if you yourself are not Ukrainian you can’t live in Alberta without having friends or extended family who are. I have an aunt, cousins, and many childhood friends whose ancestors came from the Ukraine. This recipe, nalysnyky, is one of our absolute favourites. I […]

With St. Patty’s Day coming up we thought we would share our version of an Irish classic, soda bread. If there is a favourite recipe amongst all the family favourites, then this is the recipe. All of mom’s siblings passed this recipe down to my […]

When Mom and I set out to create our family recipe book, before I convinced her we should do a blog instead, this recipe was one of the first ones on our list. We even took photos in June, only days after launching the blog. […]