cookbooks
Pasta With Tomato Cream Cheese Sauce
During the summer and early fall, we use tomatoes from our garden to make this sauce. After the tomato season has ended, we use canned tomatoes instead. The recipe is adapted from Low-Fat Express: Great Taste in 30 Minutes, by Jean Paré, and is part of the Company’s Coming series. The recipe is simple to [...]
Herbed New Potatoes
If you can find some small new potatoes, this recipe is a delicious way to eat them. The chef has made them a few times, and they always turn out very well. The recipe is adapted from The Lighthearted Cookbook, by Anne Lindsay. The cookbook was published with the Canadian Heart Foundation, so you can [...]
Gluten Free Lemon Vegetable Pasta Salad
This is adapted from a recipe in Quickies 2; veggies and more, published by Chatelaine. I love the cookbooks in that series, and use them frequently. This recipe is quick and easy — the hardest part is cooking the macaroni! I’ve had good luck with Glutino Brown Rice pasta, and you could use fusilli or [...]
Baked Vegetable Layers
This recipe is a quick and easy way to get potatoes and vegetables ready for supper. If you don’t have zucchini, you could substitute whatever vegetables you have on hand. Just slice them thinly so they cook quickly. It’s adapted from The 250 Best 4-Ingredient Recipes by Margaret Howard, in which I’ve found many excellent [...]
Butterscotch Brownies
Our family loves these squares, which are nice and chewy. The secret is to undercook them just a little, so they stay really moist. A few years ago I started making these with gluten free flour blend, and we like them just as well with gluten free flour as we did with wheat flour. This [...]
Pan Roasted New Potatoes
The recipe is from Dad’s Own Cookbook by Bob Sloan. I haven’t used this book much, but it’s full of simple recipes, cooking tips and food basics. We served these potatoes at a family dinner, and got lots of compliments. They were easy to make, and delicious. There’s only a little butter in them, and [...]
