Hot Sticks! Get your Hot Sticks, here! Hot off the barbie, that is. Touting sublime, slightly spicy, tangy, tender, grilled steak slices. TOP TEN REASONS TO MAKE BEEF SATAY SKEWERS WITH CHEATERS' PEANUT SAUCE 10. They're easy to make and easy to eat. 9. Satay rhymes with cachet. 8. You... Read more →

Quick and easy! Perfectly al dente bucatini cloaked in a timeless tomato sauce, dishing up a little kick of heat, and simple medley of classic flavours. Mangia tutti! One of my fave weekly errands is to hit Valoroso, one of the Okanagan's best Italian deli-grocery stores, to gather all the... Read more →

Deliciously crunchy and buttery, boasting butterscotch chips, milk chocolate chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips. Ever remember the first time you tasted something? I do. ....It was a beautiful Okanagan summer morning. I was contentedly basking in the warmth of the sun, and the warmth of being at my favorite aunt... Read more →

Nostalgic, sticky treats, amped up with nutty browned butter and sea salt. HEL-LOH, my salt-kissed sweetness! What sorcery is this? This is sweet, salty, nutty, sticky, soft, retro, irresistible, sorcery. And that's a fact, Jack! The teensy weensy little detail of browning the butter and tossing in just a spurt... Read more →

Perfectly grilled steak plunked atop a rich, creamy, caramelized onion riddled, blue cheese tang-ed puddle of goodness. Rahther luscious. I do so like blue cheese and steak. I do so like them, for Pete's sake. Would you eat them on the docks? Would you eat them with a fox? Down... Read more →

Crusty outtards, fluffy innards, baked potatoes topped with tangy, buttery, soft delicious muddles of feta. One potato, two potato, three potato, more.....please. What is it about baked potatoes? They're nothing special, but they're always so good, or they just hit the spot, perfectly, and they carry our cravings off to... Read more →

Melt-in-your-mouth shortbread crust. Check! Juicy, sweet, fresh blueberry filling. Check! Golden, crunchy, buttery, crown. Check! An oft quoted line from Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem, Hamatreya states the "Earth laughs in flowers." I've always, always, liked the feeling of this thought. No matter when, or how often, I come across these... Read more →

A versatile dressing that buzzes up all cool and creamy, spice-ay and tangy! TOP TEN REASONS TO MAKE SPICY AVOCADO DRESSING 10. It's the same colour as the forest in springtime. 9. Provides yet another reason to give a shout-out of gratitude to avocado farmers everywhere. 8. Avocado and lime... Read more →

Lightly crusted, golden, moist cake, overwhelmed by fresh strawberries that transform into plush pockets of sassy berryness, as they bake. How could this dessert not taste like summer? An easy peasy, tasty-as-heck, little cake touting a full pound of fresh strawberries. I scoop and smooth the batter into the prepared... Read more →

A luscious, silky, saucy cheese touting beguiling amounts of poblano, jalapeno, green chilies, black pepper and fresh tomato, swooped over warm-from-the-oven tortilla chips. Gutsy, spicy, brazen! We eat a lot of nachos at our house. Always have. Nachos kind of sum up all those Mexican flavours and textures and spiciness,... Read more →