Choose your own (dinner-time) adventure!

So they tweeps have spoken, with a narrow margin voting in favour of a food-related post!

Tonight’s post is another easy dinner, that you can throw together with mostly on-hand pantry items (depending on your pantry), but can also be modified to meet whatever flavour profile you’re hankering for, or adapt to whatever seafood you have available.

These [...]

Black Bean Chili

I sense a theme coming on — Easy Sunday dinners!

We’ve had dreadful weather lately, and braving it out on the barbeque in the rain and the wind, hoping that summer would magically appear!  Well yesterday, the sun was out, and everyone rushed out in shorts and tank tops, madly pursuing summer activities, and I was thinking [...]

Crab Cakes (file under easy dinners!)

Last night we had crab cakes for dinner, and I put up a quick pic of a lone crab cake (taken after we had scarfed down a few with side dish for dinner!), so I thought I would post the basic recipe I use.

Crab cakes are a bit of an indulgence, given the price of fresh [...]

Gluten-free cinnamon raisin bread

Well I’ve had a couple of things I needed to do on the gluten-free baking front, one being to work on a new loaf to add to the mix, and a cinnamon raisin loaf seemed like just the thing.

One of the other things on the list was to incorporate chia seeds into more of the baking [...]

Grapefruit Bitters

I’ve had another round of bitters in the works, and these pink grapefruit bitters are particularly tasty.  I started with a base of Bacardi 151 — one of the few overproof rums available to us up here, and one that is too fiery to successfully use blended in cocktails.   What else to do with a bottle [...]