I love crockpot meals for the simplicity of it! Toss everything in and at the end of a long day, you have a lovely hot meal waiting for you! This crockpot chicken and gravy is one of our favorites! I add veggies in like potatoes and carrots, but you can add any vegetable you like….
Spaetzle — Homemade Drop Noodles
We love spaetzle which is like a drop noodle. Many cultures around Europe have these dumpling-style noodles. In Hungarian, these egg noodle dumplings are known as “Nokedli” whereas in Romania they’re called “Galuska”. Spaetzle is German and “Halushky” in Ukrainian. They have slight variations between cultures – some of these drop noodles are thinner and…
Mulled Juice
It’s fall time and I love mulled juice. I usually prefer using apple juice but a combination of cranberry and apple juice is tasty, as is a combo of apple, orange and cranberry or even plain cranberry. It’s sweet and spicy with a little tang, and simply delicious! It has all the flavours of fall…
Harvest the Past at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village
I love learning about history, cultures and what life was like in the past and have been fascinated by it since I was around 8 years old. I have always enjoyed learning about what food was eaten and how it grew, what the settlers daily chores were, how they lived, how they grew and preserved…
Queen of Puddings from the 1940s
My daughter decided to make Queen of Puddings from the 1940s and it was absolutely delicious!! We got the recipe from Baking Yesteryear: The Best recipes from the 1900s to 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis which has a lot of great recipes in it, but there’s tons of versions of this recipe everywhere! Queen of…
August 2023 Garden Update
Welcome to our garden! We have been gardening in our plot in the community garden as well as in a bunch of containers and a garden bed at our home this season. It has been hot this month with a few rainy days. I will share with you all of the updates throughout August. Let’s…
July 2023 Garden Update
Let’s take a gander at our garden throughout July and see its progress! Let’s get to it! Our garden update begins July 2 and here’s our white patty pan squash – also called sunburst squash. I’ve never grown a white one before, always yellow, so I’m excited to see all the flowers and squash growing!!…
June 2023 Garden Update
Welcome back to the garden!! I will be sharing everything about how our garden is doing throughout the month of June! I am looking forward to beautiful weather, sunshine, no smoky skies, birds chirping and of course gardening! Let’s take a gander at the garden this month! It’s June 5 and the weather has been…
