As the weather starts to get chilly I always get excited about making yummy homemade soups! Homemade soup is comfort food at it's finest for me! This Crock Pot Chicken Taco Soup is one of my all time favourite soup recipes because it's so hearty with the chicken, beans and veggies and has a nice taco spice. I love that it is so easy to make right in the crock pot! Crock Pot Chicken Taco Soup Ingredients 1 onion, chopped 1 can … [Read more...]
Crock Pot Chicken Taco Soup
Halloween Treat – Boo-tiful Jello Cups
Okay Halloween has come and gone, so this won't help you much in terms of ideas to use, but I wanted to share anyway because it was a quick and super easy recipe that was fun, fun, fun for the holiday! Try modifying this with red or green jello and make snowman whip cream cuties!!! I got this from the Kraft What's Cooking Magazine - Fall 2010 edition Boo-tiful Jello Halloween Treat What You Need 3/4 cup boiling water 1 pkg. (85 g) Jell-O Orange Jelly Powder 2 cups ice cubes … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Carrot Cake with Brown Sugar Icing
Anyone else not like pie?? I get that for most people Thanksgiving dinner and Pie go together like peas and carrots (I don't like peas either for the record) but I'm not a pie lover so you'll have to get over the fact that I don't make it, or serve it for my Thanksgiving dinners. This was a lovely Fallish, Thankgivingy dessert to subsitute. It's from the Kraft What's Cooking magazine. It was really really good! Delish!! So moist and tasty! I highly recommend it! Pumpkin-Carrot Cake with … [Read more...]
Baby Boy’s First Birthday Cake
Just when I thought Birthday Season had come and gone, I had the pleasure of making one more! who could say no to making a little boys first birthday cake!?! So this is what I came up with for the Birthday Boy! Baby Boy's First Birthday Cake 1 Chocolate 9 inch round for the head 1 Chocolate 9x13 cut in to a party hat shape for the hat 1 Chocolate cupcake for the ball on top of the hat Using the 9inch round as a guide, cut a bit off from … [Read more...]
Sobey’s Jerk Pork Chops with Tropical Salsa
I was lucky enough to pair up with Sobeys to share some awesome recipes with you guys! so you guys are lucky too! Sobeys is not our usual grocery store because it's a little out of the way for us, so it was fun for us to check it out and try somewhere new. It was a really nice store, big, bright, and had everything we needed. The kids loved looking at the real live lobsters in the the tanks and despite the fact that Little Buddy pulled a jar of alfredo sauce off the shelf and … [Read more...]
Triple Chocolate Cake
This Triple Chocolate Cake is a chocolate lover's dream! The Hubster has his birthday along with the boys during 'birthday season' and even shares his birthday with Middle Man, so needless to say, he no longer gets his own birthday cake as we are usually overloaded with cake during those 10 days. But for Father's Day I always make him his own special yummy cake! He loves chocolate cake, and any old garden variety will do for him, but I wanted to make something a … [Read more...]