I made this for a community potluck on the weekend--YMMV! I had a 2.5 quart crock and this came out super sweet. Somehow the chocolate cake was even more chocolately than expected. Best served with ice cream, in hindsight--or maybe use slightly less mix ( Read more... )

So you might be wondering, what the heck am I looking at here?


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I'm making Christmas dinner for hubs and myself tonight and then tomorrow we're going to my parents. We also have to meet up with my father-in-law and somehow get go out of town to see my mother-in-law. Regardless we're going to be well fed this holiday week ( Read more... )

Just a note that homemade cranberry sauce made from Craisins is quick and easy. There's no shortage of recipes online. It boils down to (literally) sugar, Craisins, orange zest and a dash of lemon. I used lemon and because I didn't have orange zest, I mashed up a slice of mandarin orange. It was so yummy and took minutes to make. We're just two ( Read more... )

We out for lunch at Earl's yesterday with my family for Thanksgiving. It was nice and nothing to clean up. Since we're still not 100% after having not-COVID, Mom wanted to make it easy on me. I still plan on making dinner for hubs and myself though ( Read more... )

I made Coca Cola cake on the weekend. As it happened, our furnace motor conked out and it was a great reason to turn on the stove for a while ( Read more... )

Ahhhh…I love a big dinner because Chef Mike Rowave does all the cooking the next day ( Read more... )

I started ordering groceries from Save-On Foods because the boutique grocery I normally use doesn't sell cans of bachelor chow Chef Boyardee 2 for $4 :-D We always keep a few cans in the cupboard, just in case ( Read more... )

I used to note jumps in grocery prices here and there in my journal. The prices used to keep in touch with inflation or minimum wage increases. It was not unusual or unexpected when a $50 grocery shop became $75, then $100...but the shrink-flation and cost of groceries in the past two years is wild ( Read more... )

Canadian Thanksgiving is this weekend and I'm excited to have my family over for the first tine in forever ( Read more... )