Happy Thanksgiving!

It is the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend here. It is a beautiful day, the sun is shining and I'm blessed with family and friends. Today, I'm making dinner for the folks. I am thankful that they are in my life and to spend this beautiful day with them.

Sweet potatoes, red potatoes, shallots, white onions, red onions, avacado oil, rosemary, salt and pepper.  

Cornish Game Hens stuffed with lemon, garlic and rosemary.  Seasoned with salt and pepper and rubbed with butter.  

Plantains fried in avocado oil and seasoned with sea salt. 

Gravy with artichoke hearts. 

Sweet and Sour Cabbage from Bistro Dansk.  

Cornish Game Hens

Roasted Vegetables.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!  

Roasted Spaghetti Squash Seeds

You didn't think we were going to throw out the seeds, did you? The spaghetti squash seeds were roasted with homemade Portuguese pepper paste.

Spaghetti Squash

Autumn has certainly settled in with the temperatures dipping close to zero. The time has come to clear the spaghetti squash patch. It was a great year for spaghetti squash compared to the two that grew last year.

Perfect served with Chicken a la King to take the chill off.   

Soothing Soup

It is cold season here. I'm fighting off a nasty sinus infection and cough for a few weeks now. And it has me thinking.

Can chicken soup help fight a cold or the flu? It has been a long held believe of mine that it does help.

I swear by cayenne pepper in my steaming hot pot of soup as my secret weapon. (Skip the pasta.) I also have a friend that swears by garlic and grated ginger in theirs to help loosen congestion and get things draining.

How about you?  What's your secret ingredient?

Quinao-Stuffed Bell Peppers

This recipe is from the Looneyspoons Cookbook but can also be found online here. These are just before they were popped into the oven. Since I had some leftover corn, I threw that into the quinao and mushroom stuffing mix.

OH MY GOODNESS, this dish is delish!

Gluten-Free Stuffing!

It has been years since I enjoyed stuffing, until yesterday when I gave this recipe a try.

There was a lot of prep work but it was totally worth it. All I need now is an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner next month. I'll bring the stuffing!

Farmer's Market

It really is not surprising that the folk's backyard garden did not do as well as in the past. The last two years have been extremely dry and this ended up being the summer to recover.

Thankfully, there is a great farmer's market to fill in for the items that are missing from this year's yield, potatoes, peppers, etc.  Check out the size of those broad beans.  I've never seen broad beans this big, have you?