Category: Comfort Food

A Perfect Holiday Dinner

A perfectly roasted chicken and a lightened-up pumpkin pie bookend this delicious (and manageable) dinner.

Crepes

Making fancy-people food is easier than you think.

Bologna Cake 

Seriously. Bologna Cake. I wouldn’t joke about a cake made of meat.

Perfect Roast Chicken

Let’s face it, the easiest way to roast a chicken is to stop at the grocery store on the way home and pick up one of those $8 roasted chickens. This is the second-easiest way.

Ravioli Lasagna

This is one of those dishes that is more *assembled* than it is cooked, but, frankly, I’m ok with that. It’s better (and cheaper!) than take-out, and you can pre-assemble it at some point during the day and have a minion throw it in the oven while you’re at the gym.

Oatmeal Banana Bread

This is one of the best things I have ever made. I have had a favourite banana bread for years, but today I felt compelled to come up with a new one. Cold weather always makes me want to bake, but I’m pretty sure that the Manitoba Holiday Food basket sitting on my counter beside…

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Creamed Corn Cornbread

For tonight’s cornbread, I decided to try something new.  It went together super-fast and baked-up into a lovely, moist cornbread that went perfect with steaming bowls of chili.   Creamed Corn Cornbread Adapted from Tiny Test Kitchen 3/4 cup cornmeal 1/4 cup flour 3/4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 tbsp sugar 1 egg,…

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