Monthly Archives: December 2019

For all who visit my site I wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas. May you greet the day with laughter and joy in your heart and may you all be surrounded by the people you love.

Today we will do a lot of the work for Christmas Day. Just leftovers  for supper, ham and scallop potatoes from Sunday. This gives me a basically free day to get things done so it won’t be a mad house … Continue reading →

We’re going to our daughters for supper tonight. My daughter knows me well, so she usually gives me little things to do. Some would think that isn’t a good thing, for me it is. I have fun in the kitchen, … Continue reading →

Cooking a ham today which will be our supper and then will have it for our Christmas dinner. Usually I cook a ham Christmas Eve but this year because of Christmas being Wednesday I decided we would have it today. … Continue reading →

Don’t throw the liquid from a can of black olives away. It can be used for your vegetables. You can use it when steaming or boiling them. It works well with broccoli, and cabbage. My favourite is using it with … Continue reading →

There is a way to make simple canned black olives taste away better, if that’s all you have or can get. Canned olives just have a flat taste, but they are what I grew up having. I usually buy Kalamata … Continue reading →

Today is our day for making meatballs for our Christmas dinner. We always make lots so we can have them for our supper when we make them. The ones for Christmas we will freeze and then cook them in the … Continue reading →

Most people don’t cook with expensive products they cook with what they can afford. Yes for special occasions they spend a little more. This doesn’t mean you can’t make a great meal with inexpensive products, the cost of what you … Continue reading →

Tonight we are having tuna noodle casserole. There are lots of things we have for supper multiple time a year. Tuna noodle casserole we have 7 or 8 times a year. It hits our once a week pasta meal. I … Continue reading →

We make as much of our Christmas supper that we can ahead of time. Over the years as our family grew it has become a necessity. Today my wife is making cabbage rolls, there part of our Christmas supper. Since … Continue reading →