Category Archives: Recipes

Refreshingly Easy Iced Tea For One

Warm weather means cool down drinks. This easy iced tea is especially refreshing! It’s great for an after school pick me up, picnic or just because. And with a fancy drink enthusiast for a daughter, I have been making her this iced tea for all of the above or no reason at all.

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How To Make A Summer Fruit Pie

summer fruit pie

I am usually a purest when it comes to summer fruit pies, jams and such. One fruit and one fruit only! But in an effort to try new things and never miss out on something delicious. I tried mixing the remaining blackberries, blueberries and peaches I had leftover after a weekend of canning. And it was so good! So good in fact, I might just have been (somewhat) converted into a multiple fruit kind of gal, because I have been thinking about this pie ever since I made it!

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Easy And Delicious Baking Powder Biscuits

golden baking powder biscuits on a tray

I grew up with baking powder biscuits as a staple, as did a lot of families. They are rather perfect for any time of day. Baking powder biscuits are equally good slathered in butter and jam, with tea or coffee, as they are accompanying a large pot of soup on a cold night.

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Delicious and Simple Blackberry Ice Cream

Close up scoop of purple blackberry ice cream

Honestly it might be surprising it’s taken me this long to come up with a blackberry ice cream recipe. My love of all things blackberry is no secret. And since getting reacquainted with my ice cream maker this summer – I have entered the ice cream (sorbet, sherbet) making stage of pandemic, because I think we all know I was never going to buy an RV!

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Delicious Ginger Spiced Blueberry Pie

close up of cooked blueberry pie

Blueberry pie is nothing new and a rather easy fruit pie at that. No peeling or dicing of fruit. Just a quick rinse and sort through of the berries. But I like to kick it up a notch and amplify the flavours by adding freshly grated ginger! It’s my ‘secret’ or unexpected ingredient I insist on adding to blueberry pie that is not in most recipes and makes all the difference!

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Quick Easy Delicious Orange Sherbet

Orange Sherbet

This orange sherbet falls in to the category of how can anything so delicious be so simple?! Real ingredients and freshly squeezed orange juice is likely the answer, but this recipe was too good to not make twice more, perfect and share immediately.

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How To Get Churros And Crullers (From One dough)

crullers and churros

It occurred on me in my last donut making spree, that I could make churros and honey crullers simultaneously. Because basically both crullers and churros begin with a choux pastry. And what’s better than making one deep fried treat?! Making two.

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