Spiced Pumpkin Muffins with Raisins

Spiced Pumpkin Muffins

Here’s a simple pumpkin muffin recipe with raisins and walnuts, spiced with cinnamon, ground ginger and molasses. These pumpkin muffins are both healthy and tasty and make a great snack on the go. 

Spicy Pumpkin Muffins with Raisins

Easy Pecan Granola with a Hint of Orange

Easy Pecan Granola with a Hint of Orange

If you’ve never made granola at home before, then I suggest you give this recipe a try. It’s super simple and you probably have all of the ingredients in your pantry. It keeps for a couple of weeks and also freezes well.

Simple Granola with Pecans and Cranberries

Breakfast Egg and Spinach Wrap

Breakfast Egg and Spinach Wrap

This is a fun way to change up your same old scrambled egg and toast breakfast. The eggs are cooked like a flat pancake in a skillet and served in a flour tortilla with avocado, fresh spinach and a few dashes of hot sauce.

Breakfast Egg Wrap 

Ricotta Pancakes with Banana Caramel Topping

Ricotta Pancakes with Banana Caramel Topping

Here’s a pancake recipe that’s slightly different. It does require a few extra dishes but it’s worth the mess. The fun part of this ricotta pancake recipe is the banana caramel topping. But if you don’t like bananas, then simply serve them with maple syrup. 

Ricotta Pancakes

Italian Soup with Italian Sausage, Green Lentils and Spinach

Italian Soup with Sausage, Lentil & Spinach

Eating soup and nibbling sweets are a perfect way to endure the hectic,cold days of December…right?

To me, soup season means accepting that winter is firmly in place, and it’s time to settle in and wait it out. Slurping soup when it’s cold, snowy, or rainy is comforting and helps endure the unavoidable short days and long, dark nights.

Soup warms our souls, and keeps us hydrated and healthy. Many soups are filled with veggies, and often made with beans or meat, making them hearty enough to serve as one-pot meals.

What will your go-to soup be this winter? 

If you need a new idea, then try this Italian Soup with Italian Sausage, Green Lentils and Spinach, delicious served with homemade cheese biscuits.

Cheddar Cheese Biscuits

Cheese Biscuits

These are easy to make, freeze well and are perfect to serve with soup on a cold, snowy or rainy day. I suggest using aged cheddar cheese for more flavour.

Crescent Shaped Nut Sugar Cookies

Crescent Shaped Nut Sugar Cookies

These little cookies are full of flavour ! With few ingredients, they truly are easy to make. I suggest making them small, because they are rich. I used walnuts, but pecans, hazelnuts or almonds would do as well.  

Nanaimo Bars

Nanaimo Bars

Three Layers of yumm!

If you are from British Columbia then you will be familiar with Nanaimo Bars, a three-layer sweet treat named after a town on Vancouver Island. 

We always ate Nanaimo bars when I was a kid. They have a crust of graham cracker and chocolate, followed by a layer of buttery icing sugar with vanilla pudding, and finally, a thin layer of chocolate on top. I hadn’t had a Nanaimo bar in decades and was excited to make them after I found an old recipe in one of my mother’s recipe books. They tasted exactly as I remembered!

Cranberry Maple Banana Bread

Cranberry Banana Loaf

This banana bread is different from your typical banana bread because it has coconut and cranberries. It has a nice mixture of sweet from the bananas and tart from the cranberries. It’s a great way to use up old bananas and cranberries that may be lingering in your freezer!

Cranberry Raspberry Compote

Cranberry Raspberry Compote

Here’s a cranberry raspberry compote recipe that you’ll want to have on hand for many different dishes. It’s the perfect blend of cranberries and raspberries with a little sugar and orange juice. It’s great on yogurt, ice cream, cheesecake etc. Whatever it is, the compote will make the dish shine.