Here’s an affordable, easy recipe to make baked beans in tomato sauce using either a crock pot or an Instant Pot. Haven’t jumped on the Instant Pot bandwagon yet? The photo below is the one …
Recipes

Super Easy Vegetable Pot Pie
The only thing better than cooking up a super easy vegetarian pot pie would be to find one in the frozen section of the grocery store. If you’re a vegetarian you’ll know there are never …

Chopstick Tuna Casserole
One of my favorite recipes was the tuna casserole my mother used to make. Tuna casserole and buttered toast. Great for lunch or dinner! This is an easy recipe to put together. The toughest part …

How to make Poached Eggs in the Instant Pot
I like poached eggs. I’ll order poached eggs in a restaurant, but I rarely make them at home. I used to make poached eggs by cracking eggs directly into boiling water for a few minutes. …

The Dead Banana Dilemma
Welcome to my life of the dead banana dilemma! Who else has had this scenario played out more times than you count? You buy a bunch of bananas. Maybe they’re already ripe. Maybe they’re green. …

Skinny Blackberry Muffins
It’s August. That means it’s blackberry time! I grew up in Cloverdale, a town within the City of Surrey, about 30 miles from Vancouver. There are plenty of wild blackberries bushes around here. When I …

7 Ways to Kick Start Iced Tea
I might be a Canadian anomaly – I drink iced tea year round. Everyone else in Canada might wait for sweltering summer days to enjoy iced beverages, but I always have a pitcher of tea …

Best Rhubarb Muffins
When you read my post about how I’m the keeper of the rhubarb, an old family heirloom, and watched my Youtube video, you caught a quick glimpse of the rhubarb muffins I made. They live …

Baked Chocolate Peanut Butter Donuts
Baked chocolate peanut butter donuts! Sounds great, doesn’t it. I’ve been working hard to lose weight and keep the weight off. Weight loss is motivated by fear. I don’t want to get diabetes or other …

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins
Oh how I love baked goodies! How about you? Chocolate chip pumpkin muffins are my favorite! Or at least my favorite that are easy to bake and freeze well…. I often have a muffin for …