Banana Pancakes

This recipe uses ripe bananas and makes fluffy pancakes that would be perfect for breakfast.

Toaster Cake

This cake is made within a few minutes in the toaster. It is a soft delicious cake to have at tea time. This recipe makes just over a dozen small cakes.

Tripe Curry

This tripe curry is flavourful and tastes delicious served with rice, flatbread or pittu. This dish is a Malay influenced Sri Lankan dish known as babath curry traditionally served with mani pittu, which is a steamed handmade pasta made with steamed all purpose flour.

Canning Tomatoes

It is easy to can fresh tomatoes during the summer for winter use. These water bath canned tomatoes jars last for over a year. However, I tend to use it within the year. 

Karachi Biryani

This is a flavourful biryani that can be made with beef or mutton. The rice dish can be served with raita, yogurt salad, or salad.

Corn Cheese

This Korean inspired corn cheese recipe is easy to make and tastes delicious with tortillas chips. It is easy to make this at home.

Mung Bean Sprouts Cucumber Salad

This salad can be served as a side dish. 1/2 cup of dried mung beans was sprouted for this recipe. It makes 3 1/2 cups of salad.

Walnut Greek Cookies

These soft cookies are made with walnuts and coated in confectioners' sugar. The baked cookies will stay well in an airtight container for up to 1 week. 

Beef Fry Sambol

This a popular sambol made with beef. It makes for a delicious side dish served with curries and rice. This sambol stays well for over a month in the fridge.

Maldive Fish and Dried Anchovy Sambol

This sambol or sambal is made with Maldive fish and dried anchovies. It goes well as a side dish and can be served during any meal.

Summer Grilling with Lola's Fine Sauce and Salsa

We enjoyed a variety of Lola's Fine Salsa and their Hot Sauce. There are so many ways we can use the products to bring in flavour to our every day meals anytime of the year, especially during the summer grilling season. 

Sesame and Jaggery Sweets

This sweet known as thala guli is made with sesame seeds and kithul jaggery. It is a flavourful, delicious sweet snack that can be wrapped as a candy and stored at room temperature for a week. 

Bok Choy with Sauce

This bok choy dish makes a good side dish that can be served with rice. It is inspired by Korean flavours.

Gond and Nuts Snacks

These nutrient rich snacks made with nuts and gond are healthy and delicious. This snack can be enjoyed anytime. Gond or gaund is gum Arabic resin from the acacia tree also known as mastic.

Date Pickle

This pickle made with a date base is served with rice dishes such as biryani. It has a sweet and spicy flavour.

Rice with Chicken

This delicious rice gets its flavour from the chicken stock and spices. The carrots, raisins, fried onion, and chicken over the rice make this a one-pot meal. It is served with a flavourful simple salad.

Hamilton Beach Professional Juicer Mixer Grinder

I love how well this Hamilton Beach Professional Juicer Mixer Grinder works to grinds a variety of ingredients depending on how we want it; coarse, smooth or fine. Prior to using this machine I have been having a hard time grinding pulses and rice finely for meals such as dosa and hoppers. With this machine making the batter smooth and getting the perfect consistency it needs to be is easy! 

Beef Curry & Cuisipro Products

This is my go to beef curry. It is easy to make and can be served as a side dish with rice, flatbread, or bread.

Apple blueberry crisp

This delicious crisp is made with a combination of fresh apples and frozen blueberries.

Mr. Sunshine's Colourful Snacks

Vincenzo (Vince) Guzzo, Montreal based business owner and Dragons’ Den judge is continuing to push his entrepreneurial initiatives with the official expansion of his Mr. Sunshine brand to include locally made popcorn. We tasted three different popcorn flavours, which are perfect for our movie nights.