Ham & Cheese Quick Bread
Savory Easter treats for any day of the year, Ham & Cheese Quick Bread. So easy anyone can bake it. A fast breakfast on the go, serve it with eggs for a snazzy brunch or with your favorite vintage at…
Kirsch Cherry Pound Cake – A Booze Soaked Tribute to Maritime Fruitcake
Kirsch Cherry Pound Cake is my tribute to the white cherry cakes shared in the Canadian Maritimes at Christmas. Unlike dark, rum soaked fruitcake chalk-full of candied citrus peel and nuts in a rum soaked batter, during my time in…
Mushroom Cherry Hazelnut Stuffing
Whether served with a holiday fowl or as a simple family meal, nothing says home-cooking quite like piping hot stuffing. This Mushroom Cherry Hazelnut Stuffing recipe savory meets a hint of sweet, for a knock-out stuffing for any occasion. I…
Healthy Holiday Alternatives – Vegan Stuffing
Just because it's the holidays doesn't mean we abandon healthy eating habits, instead we adapt favorite recipes into healthy holiday alternatives, like this little twist on an old favorite - Vegan Stuffing. To say that I eat a little differently from the…
Traditional Sausage Stuffing
Time to get that bird perking. Traditional Sausage Stuffing is the 'man favourite' at our house, long on butter and pork sausage and void of anything healthy; or so he thinks. Secretly, it contains flax oil and fiber. Well,…
Lemon Shortbread Cookies
A light twist on a holiday classic, this recipe for Lemon Shortbread Cookies doubles, triples and multiplies as deep as ten times in a snap. It's a soft dough and therefore not ideal as a cut cookie, but perfect as…
The Great Holiday Wine Swap
Cookie swapping parties are so 1990's, so I say why swap cookies when you can swap wine? On this Wino Wednesday we give you a few tips on how to host your own Holiday Wine Swap Party. It's the…
Mom’s Famous Butter Tarts
Nothing says Christmas quite like a taste of home. This year I finally weaseled Mom's Famous Butter Tart Recipe out of her. "Well," she says "the first thing you need is a good overproof rum." WOAH... no wonder they're so…
Tangy Fresh Fruit Chutney
The holidays approach and along with our regular deliciousness and butter laden delicacies, we thought we'd bring you a few ways to make your turkey dinner, or turkey sandwich, a little more interesting with a condiment or two, starting with…
T&T Supermarket – “OH WOW!”
With Chinese New Year just around the corner, it was time for a family outing to the local T&T Supermarket for authentic Asian ingredients and an infusion of new ideas for the Gypsy Kitchen. Decked out in it's new year finery, with colorful lanterns hanging overhead, T & T…
Stuffing Waffle Turkey Sandwich, Fun with Leftovers
Yea, that just happened, I made a waffle out of leftover stuffing and served a turkey sandwich on it, that's how white trash I am. Christmas 2011; the year of the Stuffing Waffle Turkey Sandwich. Straight out of the Gypsy Kitchen.
Asian Gingerbread Pear Cake
Two recipes adapt in dramatic contrast to create a new personal best. A far east twist on a holiday favorite, Asian Gingerbread Pear Cake is slightly sweet, moist and intense with the bright addition of poached pears for a show-stopping, simple cake; the prefect fit for holiday entertaining.