It was beautiful day here last Saturday...sunny, around 5 degrees Celsius, (about 41 degrees Fahrenheit), with clear blue skies. It was the perfect day for exploring the great outdoors with our Goldendoodle, Daisy. I had planned on making bbq ribs for supper but really...

 A few weeks ago, I decided to make Sloppy Joes for dinner. Even from skillet to plate, Sloppy Joes are an easy, quick weeknight meal. But having a perfectly delicious recipe for Slow Cooker Sloppy Joes, going that route just made sense to me. Besides....meal prep u...

This past weekend the clocks sprang ahead one hour, Don't get me wrong....usually I'm all over that because it's the first indicator that spring is on the way and spring is my favorite season of all because it holds the promise of summer. But this week is when we offic...

Last week, I was as sick of January as I had ever been. It's the Mount Everest of all of the months; a constant, uphill battle against frigidly cold days marked with less than 8 hours of daylight. For me, January is the longest, most drawn out, anticlimactic of all mon...

Perhaps it's just me, but it seems like Christmas comes faster with each passing year. One minute you're poking away the Halloween decorations and the next, your thrown into Christmas Chaos! There's not enough transition time if you ask me. No sooner does the clock st...

When I was growing up, you could pretty much tell the day of the week by what was being served for dinner and from what I gather, many of my friends can totally relate to that. There was very little variety and a serious lack of creativity and imagination when it came...

Slow cookers can inspire even the most culinarily challenged cook to create fantastic meals in one pot, with consistent and delicious results. It's like an Easy Bake Oven for grown-ups, making cooking fun and easy. I can't think of an easier way to cook than to toss a...

The Newfoundland Recreational Cod Fishery is in full swing and bys', the fish are plentiful and they're BIG!! No problems catchin' your daily quota here, let me tell you!  The fish are plentiful enough that you can afford to be a little picky, tossin' back the wimpy on...

Every one of us has had one of those days, or several of them in a row, where there just doesn't seem to be enough time to get everything done.  I had just one of those days yesterday. Between doing the routine morning chores of making lunches, making breakfast, doing...