What’s a substitute for cornstarch? FREE Ingredient Substitutions Sheet

Better Blogging Tips, Instructions 101

How many times have you just started a recipe and oops, you are out of eggs, or butter, or cornstarch? And what’s a substitute for cornstarch anyways? My free 41 Cooking and Baking Ingredient Substitutions Essential Cheat Sheet just may save the...

9th Blogiversary: my Cake Decorating Challenge

Dessert Recipes, Instructions 101

The art form of cake decorating can be intimidating to a novice. But even masters had to start with a humbling first cake. Learn in this post the basic tools needed and how to prepare your canvas for your creations. Let’s eat a fancy decorated...

Oven-Roasted Chicken Fajitas & Unique Book Gift Ideas

Cookbooks, Exotic World Recipes, Instructions 101, Reviews

Reading is a great gift for the holidays and these unique book gift ideas are sure to put a smile on someone’s face and introduce a new hobby. If you are a regular reader, you know I get lots of cookbooks and books to play with. Just love them! Are they not the...

Pick your own Squash in the Pumpkin Patch at La Courgerie

Evelyne's Unusuals, Food Trends & Gadgets, Instructions 101, Montreal Buzz

This past weekend in Canada was Thanksgiving and I was at La Courgerie . Many families and friends gather around a wonderful meal, celebrating the bounty of the summer. In my family we throw in hard labor work: we close the cottage down for the winter. Thankfully we...

Fish Bone Broth: follow your gut

Instructions 101, Salad and Soup Recipes

Did you know even fish bones are great to make a mineral and gelatin packed bone broth. Learn how to acquire and prepare a super healthy Fish Bone Broth. Here we are with the final post of four articles that I wrote following my challenge to have a cup of bone broth a...

Lamb Bone Broth: follow your gut

Instructions 101, Salad and Soup Recipes

Mineral and gelatin packed bone broths are so good for you and they taste wonderful. Today we will make Lamb Bone Broth but with a most unexpected bone segment, the head. Soooooo remember back in April I had challenged myself to drink homemade bone broth every day for...