Casseroles Blog Posts

 This may not be much to look at, and it may sound like an unusual combination, but I just have to tell you that this is one of the most delicious casseroles you could ever make for your family.   Not only that, but it's also economica...

  One thing that I have always loved is/are tinned tomatoes.   I could quite happily just sit down with a tin of tomatoes and a slice of bread and butter.  A smattering of salt and pepper and I am feasting.   I find it very satisf...

Some of the meat which was sent to me recently by the Westin Gourmet people was some of  their Steak Mince. You would have to have been living under a rock in recent months not to know about the great debacle here in the UK which was the horse-m...

  We've eaten so much meat over these past few days, I thought I would take a break from it for a day or so!  We don't normally eat much meat, but I am not complaining, as it has been fabulous meat and I am very grateful for the opport...

 In today's economy I am always looking for ways to make my food budget stretch as far as I can so I can get as much bang out of my pound as possible.  It only makes sense, as Del Boy would say.   The further I can make my food po...

I remember my first brush with Chicken Cacciatore.  I was a 21 year old new bride, living in our first apartment, in Calgary, Alberta.  We had a very limited income in those days (nothing's changed since then, lol) and I was always on the l...

 Today I want to talk about one of the unsung heroes of British Cookery, Tamasin Day-Lewis.  She's not considered to be sexy like Nigella Lawson, but in my opinion, she can cook her way around Nigella any day of the week, no question about...

I cooked a turkey at the weekend . . . some might say somewhat of an indulgence, but I was so unwell at Christmas this year we hadn't really enjoyed our Christmas Dinner very much and so . . . I wanted roast turkey.   Nothing special . . .

 I was surfing the net the other day and I came across this delicious sounding casserole on the Better Homes and Gardens site.  Cheesy Shell Stuffed Shells.  Oh my goodness . . . can you imagine???  Be still my pasta-lovin heart!

  It's always very handy to have a few recipes in your recipe repertoire for easy do ahead meals.   I especially like these types of things for Sundays, because I am usually starving by the time I get home from church.   Sund...

 Oh, I do so love a good casserole, especially when they help me to make good use of my leftovers. I hate waste, so being able to use up all my leftovers is a good thing!  Win/win!! This recipe I am showcasing here today is one I...

 I am a real vegetable lover. I could eat nothing but vegetables and be perfectly happy for the rest of my life . . . seriously! Ok . . . I might miss a good steak once in a while, but  vegetables do make me very happy.I actually crave the...

 After all of the turkey and ham of the past week, we were craving something quite different for supper at the weekend.  We were also having company for supper and I thought they were probably a bit tired of turkey and the like as well. I w...

I'm a person that hates waste . . . and really, in today's economic climate, getting the most that you can out of your food budget only makes good sense.I hate to think that half of the world are starving, and yet we here in the UK, throw away more t...

It wasn’t until I shared this recipe for Easy Cheesy Spaghetti Squash that I finally mastered the art of cooking this stringy squash. Previous attempts to produce a spaghetti-like texture were complete failures. Most often I would end up with...

One of the most versatile leftovers has to be leftover roast chicken!  I just love it.  There is so much that can be done with it.I often make hot chicken sandwiches with the sliced meat and leftover gravy . . . boy oh boy is that gravy goo...

 I thought I would share a few of my favourite ways of using up leftover turkey today.  I know I have a lot of American readers who will be wanting to know what to do with it all . . . and of course my Canadian and British readers will be d...

I try to take a list with me whenever I go grocery shopping, and I try really hard to stick to it . . . but I always inevitably come home with a few things that weren't on my list.  And it's not normally something like biscuits or other naughty...

Cabbage is a real favourite vegetable around here. Filled with vitamin C and loads of other vitamins and anti-oxidents, it's very, very good for you. It's also quite low in calories, so it's a great diet food as well. (I'm quite sure most of you...

I hated squash when I was a child.  I am not sure what it was about it that I didn't like, perhaps the texture, or maybe the way my mother prepared it.  Twas always boiled to death and mashed . . . B-O-R-I-N-G  Sorry mum!  I have...