Got to love February's weird holidays....First Nutella and now Pizza, what a wonderful Italian theme. I'm sending this out one day early...

Cooking with love happens every day for me but on Valentine's Day I always want to try something a little extra special. I put together...

It was such a beautiful day in Ridge that I went for a long walk in the neighbourhood. The sun followed me and the warmth did my body...

Makes: 60 – 70 different size cookies We love shortbread at Christmas so thought I’d create a recipe for our Valentine’s. I’m not the...

Yeah its Nutella Day! Let's crack open and jar and slather that deliciousness of chocolate and hazelnuts on whatever we like. Of course if you are allergic to hazelnuts like my brother Vince, then stay away. Here is the story behind Nutella.... In Napoleon Bonaparte’s quest to concur Europe in 1806, he enacted a blockade that halted British trade. Due to this the flow of cocoa was interrupted and chocolatiers in Turin Italy found they couldn’t afford to make pure chocolat

These recipes are full vegetarian or you can omit the meat option I have in the recipe and it becomes vegetarian. All delicious in their...

I don't know how long it has been that I had a weekend to relax. Cambridge dictionary definition is "to become less active and more...

Finally after what seems like forever I finally got to go for a hike with Gianni. We went to Edge Farm Trail in Langley which is located...

Yeah it’s Friday…..I don’t know about you, but every time I get back from vacation the first week is a killer. Felt like I needed a nap...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I rang in the New Year three times at the cabin with my hubby Gianni, son Steven, daughter-in-law Sarah and my grandsons...

Four of our trips were cancelled due to COVID over the past two years, then our Tofino trip got cancelled due to an atmospheric river and...

A white Christmas, we haven’t had one in 13 years and true to this year’s form we are going to set a cold weather record. Heat waves,...

Once again life with COVID is causing havoc all over the world. First COVID-19, then Delta and now Omicron is sending the world in a...

When my grandsons Brody, Blake, Weston and Jameson say goodbye or when I put them to bed they always know the last thing I say to them is...

I took Remembrance Day off as well as Friday and made it an extra-long weekend at the cabin. The place we named “Casa Serena” (House of...

Today we observe a moment of silence at 11:11am to commemorate the armistice agreement that ended the First World War on Monday, November...

Serves: 4 I had a friend visit and he doesn’t drink coffee but loves hot chocolate. Therefore I didn’t just want to whisk together a...

Makes: 40 cookies With more and more people allergic to nuts I decided to create a biscotti that is traditional Italian goodness with...

In BC we got hit with a rare weather event called bomb cyclone. Lucky it wasn’t as violent as they had predicted. With the TELUS...

Serving size: 10 Rum, butter, chocolate, strawberry and mascarpone all rolled up in one. What can be better? The kids and the adults...