So some days you just don’t have time to cook. I wanted to try to cook something simple and yummy. I would say this is great for a weekday meal, although cook time is about an hour so you need to plan ahead so you wont be eating at midnight. I made this recipe with…
Category: back to the basics
Zucchini Pasta Sauce
This recipe was inspired by Meghan Markle’s Sexy Pasta Sauce. I also saw this recipe on emmymadeinjapan. For this version I decided to use the instant pot. It is a simple recipe and all you will need some broth (or bouillon) and zucchini. So the difference between this recipe and Meghan Markle’s is that for…
Parmesan Green Beans
A couple days ago, I made an easy recipe that my kid loves. It was so simple that it was great for a weekday dinner. One thing I do recommend is getting some nice and young green beans. I think mine were a little old so they were a little chewy. The recipe I followed…
Chinese Eggplant and Bean Stir Fry
Eggplant is a hard vegetable to cook. Its not great if its undercooked but gains a ton of flavour when its cooked just right. Here is a simple Chinese inspired eggplant dish. To prepare your eggplants, slice them up and sprinkle it with salt. Let them sit for at least 1 hour. This process will…
Easy Natural Sweetener
As you may know, I still struggle with eczema. It isn’t as bad as before but it will get worse with the holiday season coming up. This is mostly because of all the sugar!! To fight my sugar cravings I made this date paste. It is so sweet and tasty. I love it on toast…
Roasted Pickled Beets
I’ve always loved getting roasted beets from restaurants and I didn’t realize how easy it was. Start with cleaning and slicing your beets. You want to remove the outer skin which can get a bit tough. The beets that I had was a candy cane beet. They had a wonderful and gorgeous look when sliced…
Sneaky Shepard’s Pie
If you’re finding it hard to add more vegetables to you meals, then you came to the right place. This is a sneaky shepard’s pie with cauliflower mashed potatoes. Cauliflower mashed potatoes sounds like a weird combination but some how cauliflower makes the mashed potatoes just that much better. Most people won’t realize that they…
Lazy, Easy and Quick 4 Ingredient Granola Cereal
Lately I have been addicted to yogurt, cereal and fruit or berries. The trouble with my special diet is that I try to avoid anything with white sugar (cane sugar). Unfortunately most cereal is filled with white sugar. I decided to make my own granola. We already have a recipe online for homemade granola but…
Chinese Pancake Wraps
One of my favorite dishes to order when we go out to a Chinese restaurant is the Peking duck wrap. The best part is the wrap. It is basically a flour tortilla wrap and it can be used for any thing. It is chewy and thin and tastes good with any filling. Most of you…
What’s for Dinner? Cooking for Real People Part 2: Weekly Plan
Welcome to Part 2 of this series. If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, go and do that now. I hope your month has been going well and you have been recording your most common meals and building your meal idea list. In this post I will be describing the process of how I plan…
EAT it NOW or EAT it LATER 