This recipe is well over 20 years old and follows the one posted earlier today for Green Salsa. My partner and I at the time decided to document his salsa recipes for my blog at the time and so we set out to Kensington market and bought a couple of giant bags of dried peppers…
Green Salsa
This recipe is well over 20 years old! This is the most delicious and versatile salsa which can be used in almost any Mexican food recipe. You can make it milder or spicier than what this recipe calls for and the amounts are only approximations. Have fun using this salsa with enchiladas, chilaquiles, molletes, tostadas,…
Apple Chunkies
I didn’t know what to expect from this recipe going into it – would it be more like a cake? Squares? Something else? The proportions had me thinking it wouldn’t yield much, but it ended up making a decent sized dessert that was more than enough to serve my family of five. And I’ve decided…
Crumb Cupcakes
I decided to adapt this crumb cake recipe into a cupcake recipe as an easy lunch box treat for my kids. These were an instant hit in our house – old becomes new. Ingredients 3 cups flour 1 cup Earth Balance 1 cup granulated sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 tsp salt…
Italian Spaghetti and Sauce
This spaghetti sauce recipe wasn’t too far off from the recipe that my family already uses regularly. I gave it a try and found it tasted like my childhood. We never use dried parsley in our cooking and I didn’t find it added anything here. It also didn’t take anything away, so I’ve listed it…
Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting
A delicious icing that will run (no pun intended) a little runnier or thicker depending on the cream cheese alternative you choose. I find the Tofutti brand is thicker where the Daiya brand results in a runnier icing. Either way, they are delicious. Try it on carrot cake or fruit cocktail cake (pictured). Ingredients 2/3…
Fruit Cocktail Cake
I don’t think my mother ever made this cake but I could tell it was a recipe from Grandma’s “no fat” phase. She went through a kick in her 50s where she wanted to lose some weight and it was around the time in the early 90s where all nutritional fat was considered “evil” and…
Stuffing
Stuffing was always a HUGE favourite in our family. It literally was not Thanksgiving or Christmas without it. Of course, when I was growing up we usually had it stuffed inside of a turkey, but because we loved it so much, we often had a stovetop or casserole version in addition – or, because we…
Stuffed Manicotti
This was such a hit in our house growing up and would probably hit my top five favourite meals my mother ever made. I’ve adapted it over the years and no matter how many times I make it, one thing remains true: I can never make this dish without breaking at least one manicotti shell…
Cranberry Sauce
I was sort of surprised that there wasn’t a recipe for cranberry sauce in Grandma Donna’s cookbook since we had it pretty much every Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. I am wondering if we were just the “buy it in a can” kind of family? I adapted this recipe from a few I found on the…
