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Our Lemon Arugula Fennel Salad with Crispy Breaded Sole Fillets pairs one of our favourite Italian-inspired dishes with one of our family’s favourite meal solutions – tasty white flakey Signature Cuts™ Crispy Breaded Sole Fillets by High Liner® Canada. With a medley of simple ingredients and about 20 minutes to prepare, this recipe packs a revitalizing lemony flavour and refreshing crispness of arugula + fennel
We’ve just enjoyed the first long weekend of our warm weather season here in Ontario and the switch to meals on the BBQ has been turned on! More time enjoying our all-too-short sunny season and less around the oven is how we roll this time of year. One of our favourite meals to make on the ‘cue is a Grilled Mediterranean Platter with all our
Dive into this Sea-Crudité family meal simplified with flavourful High Liner® Signature Cuts™ Crispy Breaded Haddock Fillets, surrounded by a medley of all our gang’s favourite veggies and sides for an easy-peasy meal solution to satisfy the whole family’s tastes! One Haddock fish fillet bake – 3 crowd-pleasing ways: 1) Haddock & Chips; 2) Haddock Tortilla Wraps; and 3) Haddock Lettuce Wraps! A satisfying family
DadChef and I just celebrated our 17th Anniversary (*28 years of couplehood*). Amidst a very fast and full family life, being the “forgot my hockey equipment” fetchers, viral laundry load washers, last minute grocery-getters, “can’t find my library book” finders, and Mom/Dad Uber-drivers, time and energy for romance is beyond minimal. Love isn’t those insta-glamourous, fancy, candle-lit moments, though, is it. It’s a million different
After a festive season of enjoying all the food things (with ZERO regrets!), I find my cravings turn to lots of seafood infused things come January. In many cultures around the globe (my Italian heritage included), seafood dishes are actually a meaningful way to welcome a new year. It’s believed eating seafood at the start of the year will bring luck, prosperity and good
Our Canadian Thanksgiving is days away and it’s one of my favourite holidays of all. Gather, eat, savour and reflect on things to be grateful for – the simple things really are everything. Connecting and creating tasty food in our Cucina brings a lot of contentment and calm amidst our chaos and the frenzy that is Fall. I’m feeling full I get to share them
Our visit to our local farm to pick-our-own strawberries has always been a traditional way for us to kick-start summer. Ontario’s berries aren’t the biggest, but they are certainly among the most delicious. We’ve rounded up our favourite simple Strawberry Recipes to Enjoy All Summer long, including a new salad recipe we just devoured this weekend. They’re all BERRY good, if I do say so
Our family’s love for Québec is deep – the breathtaking landscapes, the gastronomy, the ‘joie de vivre’ culture, and the many affordable types of accommodations for our big brood have made it a top choice for us to vacation over recent years. On our way to some of the province’s popular getaway hubs – Mont Tremblant, Québec City and even passing through Ottawa, Ontario before
There might not be an Olympic medal yet for parents/caregivers keeping up with the homebound hunger games of the times but there should be 😉 (*virtual toss 🥇 – you’ve earned it*). If you’re looking for some snacking ideas for sporting events-heavy February or just the endless family feeding frenzy, we’ve rounded up some of our fave game-viewing snacks & champ chomper-approved bites for
Let’s aperitivo & open the holiday food palate with our Festive Burrata Pomegranate Plate! Life is full & fast again, it seems, and DadChef and I spend most of our “down time” being Mom/Dad-Uber to our older two who have more of a social life than we do 😉, but last weekend we intentionally found a few fleeting moments to slow in between the drive-around
