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Mother’s Day is Sunday!!

A few delish dishes for Brunch on Mother’s Day !!! Pick one or two or make all of these!! Add some cut up vegetables & some fruit & you will have a wonderful meal!

Hash Brown Casserole

This recipe, Hash Brown Casserole, is one of our family favourites at any buffet meal! This is an old recipe probably from over 25 years ago that I got from a friend of mine. Always a hit with everyone! The only confusing thing about this recipe is the size of the bag of frozen hash…

Cheddar Cheese Puff

I first posted this recipe for Cheddar Cheese Puff n 2017! I used to make this wonderful dish whenever we would have company over for brunch. Sometimes I would make it for pot-luck dinners…it is great on a buffet table. Eggy, Cheesy, Crisp around the edges, this is so good you will ba making it…

Breakfast Bread Pudding & Praline Oven French Toast

Perfect to put together the evening before, here are a couple recipes that we love! Breakfast Bread Pudding & Praline Oven French Toast

I Love Bran Muffins!

That just about says it all…I love bran muffins. My favourite bakery in Edmonton, Bon Ton Bakery, makes the most delish bran muffins, but it is Sunday morning & they are closed! So what is a girl to do? Bake them myself! I found a recipe for Bran Muffins from Chatelaine magazine that I had…

Norene Gilletz Blueberry Muffins

I always made these muffins when my children were young.. they loved them! Simple to make & perfect! I made these muffins with fresh blueberries—they are juicy & burst inside the muffin…& ooze out of them a bit… just beautiful …but these ar equally as good with frozen blueberries too! Making them with the frozen…

Blueberries are on sale everywhere here! So lets get Baking!!

Here are 11 of my favourite recipes using Blueberries!! If you can’t find delish fresh blueberries you can use frozen ones for any of these recipes!

Blueberry Galette

I just love Blueberry Pie & this Blueberry Galette is just as good…it is easy to make so you should make it soon! The recipe is from Bon Appetit Blueberry-Pecan Galette The crust is made with pecans, it is really easy to handle so even a novice pie maker can feel good about making this!…

Blueberry Crisp

The fresh blueberries are so delicious now…plump & juicy! There were a lot of emails going around with blueberry recipes last week, so I wanted to join in. I just needed a small dessert & happened to have the right amount of fresh blueberries in my fridge for this recipe! The recipe is from marthastewart.com Blueberry…

Lemon Blueberry Scones

I love scones…pretty much any kind of scones.. I have 2 favourite places to buy them.. one here in Edmonton & one place in Toronto I like scones to be crispy on the outside, soft & flakey & tender inside. The 2 places I love to buy scones at is The Duchess Bake Shop in…

Blueberry Labneh Cheesecake

I used homemade Labneh in a cheesecake instead of cream cheese & it was delicious! Replacing the cream cheese in the cheesecake worked out really well. I worked out the calories on an online site for the same recipe with cream cheese & then using the Labneh…. there was a big difference…the one with the…

Lemon Blueberry Icebox Cake

Well, this was delicious! The recipe is from Bon Appetit & i just love the recipes on that site! We had company coming for dinner & I did not feel like baking anything.. I was hoping for a warm evening so I thought If I had a frozen dessert .. maybe it would inspire the…

Blueberry Pie

Blueberries are everywhere & I am pretty happy about that! There are several recipes I love with blueberries & one of them is this blueberry pie. Just a basic blueberry pie, nothing fancy.  I used a recipe from Martha Stewart. The fresh blueberries I used were not very sweet so the pie wasn’t either. Some…

Norene Gilletz Blueberry Muffins

I always made these muffins when my children were young.. they loved them! Simple to make & perfect! I made these muffins with fresh blueberries—they are juicy & burst inside the muffin…& ooze out of them a bit… just beautiful …but these ar equally as good with frozen blueberries too! Making them with the frozen…

Blueberry Ricotta Pancakes

I love making ‘breakfast/brunch’ on the weekends. Whether it is eggs, french toast, waffles, the delicious list of breakfast foods goes on & on. I saw this recipe on bon appetit & had to make them. A soft, light in texture pancake studded with blueberries & topped with a delicious blueberry-lemon compote. Honestly, you must…

Blueberry Hand Pies

This recipe is from King Arthur Flour. They have a bake along series & this is the first recipe I have tried from this series. These Blueberry Hand Pies are delicious & quite easy to make. I did not put enough filling in the hand pies. It looks like I put in the same amount…

Blueberry Pudding

This delicious Blueberry Pudding is a lovely dessert. I have the recipe in my recipe binders], but I do not know where I got it from! I cut it out of a magazine years ago. It is one of the recipes I saw one time, & thought it would be good- then did not make…

In Memory of Norene Gilletz here are some of her Recipes

Norene Gilletz was a friend of mine who passed away 3 years ago. She was a successful cook book author whose recipes are used over a& over by many home cooks!

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