Brussel Sprouts are not my favourite vegetable by any means. Sometimes if they are roasted & seasoned with maple syrup….haha….I can eat them! But I do like them raw in this salad. Paired with Kale, this is so healthy & fresh.
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Cheese & Crumb Cake by Carine Goren
My son bought me a new cook book .. Traditional Jewish Baking by Carine Goren. The pictures are so beautiful that they make me want to make everything in this book..& I might just do that!
The first thing I decided to make is a called Cheese and Crumb Cake to Die For. The picture in the cookbook is nicer then anyone I could get from my cake, but you should know that it is very good. The filling is no-bake, the crust gets baked but not for very long. The filling calls for a box of vanilla pudding mix which thickens this up without eggs. The problem was eating only one piece at a time! I served this dessert with a mix of blueberries & strawberries that I heated up & used some cornstarch to thicken & a touch of sugar too. I did not put much sugar in the fruit since I like the tartness of the fruit alongside the sweet cake.
Here is a link to the cookbook on Amazon
Chicken Casserole Topped with Cauliflower
I found a bag of cooked shredded chicken in my freezer from a chicken soup I made recently. Since I love chicken pot pie & shepherds pie, why not combine the two but making it healthier by omitting the pastry shell from the potpie & the potatoes from the shepherds pie? Good idea? I think so!
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Chicken in an Asian Salad Dressing
I found this Asian salad dressing on Food.com. I use it periodically when I want to have an asian inspired dinner & need a salad dressing that goes along with that! I make a salad that has some greens, vegetables, nuts, sesame seeds & top with some wonton strips or chow mein noodles. This would also be good drizzled on some sautéed bokchoy, or any cooked veg!
Meringue Cake with Dates, Nuts & Chocolate
I made this cake for Passover but I know it will be good anytime of the year so am posting it in dessert dishes!!
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Green Beans With Tomato Pesto
I love green beans but I don’t like them the way my mom served them!! We pretty much ate them from a can, warmed up & then they got cold on the plate…and they were a bit mushy….. but I do like them roasted! Sautéed is ok but I prefer them roasted. A bit charred and delicious! This recipe from bon appetit, is unique & very tasty,
Tahini Salad Dressing
I love this salad dressing. It is adapted from a recipe on the Canadian Living Magazine website. This is one of my ‘go-to’ salad dressings. The salad that I have put it on tonight has roasted sweet potatoes & roasted yellow pepper. lettuce, tomatoes,cucumber & sliced almonds. I like this dressing on a salad with a grain added to it. I use it a lot on quinoa salads … Kale salad would be good… the uses for this is endless I think!! There is a difference from this to a tahini sauce. Tahini sauce does not have vignette which is added in this recipe .
I made only 1 change to the recipe on the website, so my recipe is an inspired recipe that I adapted from the Canadian Living Magazine website!
Here is the recipe
Tahini Salad Dressing
Ingredients
1/4 cup olive oil
3 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tbsp maple syrup
2 tbsp tahini
salt & pepper to taste
Method
- Put all of the ingredients into a jar & shake!!
The salad I made tonight
Roast 1 peeled sweet potato … I cut it into chunks, drizzled it with oil, wrapped it in foil & baked it until soft. Let cool This can take a long time, so I roasted this early in the day & put it in the fridge….
Roast 1 thinly sliced yellow pepper … put the pepper slices on a lined baking sheet, drizzle with oil & sprinkle some coarse salt on, put into a 400f oven & roast until soft..watch because the time depends on how big you have cut your pepper
6 cups of salad greens
2 cocktail tomatoes, sliced
1 mini cucumber, thinly sliced
sliced almonds, I just sprinkled some on the salad
Pour some of the dressing on the salad & toss! You will have leftover salad dressing. It will keep n the fridge for several days!
Enjoy!



Happy Mother’s Day!
Mother’s Day is an opportunity for families to get together & enjoy each other’s company! If you aren’t going out for brunch or dinner here are a few posts that you might want to check out for inspiration to cook up something delicious ! Enjoy the day! Enjoy your mom! You mom-in-law! Enjoy your kids! Grandkids! & relish in the memories of moms no longer with us, I will be thinking of mine & enjoying my beautiful family!
Here a few ideas for you to cook today!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Baked in a Skillet
However you spend the day, whatever you eat…hope you enjoy it!
Vanilla Bundt Cake
I saw this cake in an email I received from King Arthur Flour. I like their recipes. I have made a muffin recipe from that website…Whole Wheat Blueberry Muffins
Chicken Thighs with Soy & Ginger
It seems like we eat a lot of chicken around here & I guess we do!! So here is another chicken dish. This recipe is from the New York Times Cooking by Martha Rose Shulman. It is very good & you should make it!
Chewy Chocolate Cookies!
Chewy Chocolate Cookies! The deep delicious flavour of this cookie comes from using cocoa powder. It is easy change this cookie up a bit, using the batter as the base, you can add chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, or chopped nuts.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Baked in a Skillet
This is such a quick way to make chocolate chip cookies! My niece, who is 9, & I made this together one time when she was over visiting. It was a last-minute decision ….we really wanted dessert to enjoy together so this worked out perfectly!

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