Recipes

The Salad Dressing You Should NEVER Eat — and my Alternative Super-Healthy Recipe

by Mike Geary – Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Specialist
Author – The Truth About Six Pack Abs

If you want to eat truly healthy, support your fat loss goals, and avoid some of the nasty additives in processed food, one thing you should eliminate is typical store-bought salad dressing.

I personally NEVER buy pre-made salad dressings from the store anymore, and here’s why:

1. Almost all store-bought salad dressings contain fairly large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Unless you’re in a health food store, it’s almost impossible to find a salad dressing that doesn’t contain large amounts of HFCS. Read More…

Tasty Yorkshire Pudding – The Easy Way

Deliciously, delectable Yorkshire Pudding’s are commonly served with beef and gravy. They originally hit the scene in Yorkshire because it was an inexpensive way to round out a meal at a time when meat was scarce. Someone was definitely thinking smart because Yorkshire’s are amazingly delicious and made with a few simple ingredients.

You can buy pre-packaged Yorkshire mixes, but it’s really NOT necessary. Making your own isn’t really isn’t all that complicated, and you probably have all of the ingredients sitting in your pantry right now. Read More…

Mouth-Watering Crock Pot Roast – Why Not Impress Your Guests

This is a very simple recipe that let’s you cook your entire meal in the crock pot. And the good news is, you’re family will think you’re an amazing chef that slaved in the kitchen all day long. The only thing you will probably want to add to this is a nice hot batch of Yorkshire puddings…and those are a snap to put together as well.

Supplies Needed:

  • 1 pot roast – 2 to 3 pounds. A sirloin tip works well. Not too fancy, but not the cheapest stuff either. It will be a nice tender piece of meat after cooking in the crock pot for 8 hours. Read More…

Chicken Fried Rice – With Jasmine

I love to use leftovers up by creating new dishes, and had approximately 2 cups of Jasmine rice leftover from making rice pudding.

I especially love it when a new concoction turns out as well as this one did… What a WINNER HERE!

This is what I came up with:

Ingredients

Read More…

Blueberry Buckle with Lemon Sauce

From “a world of food in Canada” Members’ Pamphlet. Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food Home Economics Branch, 4H Homemaking Club Unit, page 12.

Wild fruits grew abundantly and were free for the gathering in pioneer Canada. Blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and cranberries were dried for winter use. Blueberry Buckle and other similar desserts have proven popular through the years. This recipe is equally good with fresh or frozen blueberries; the tangy lemon sauce points up the bland flavour of the huckleberries, as they are called in some regions.

Ingredients Read More…

Pulled Pork Tenderloin Sandwich – a Healthier Choice!

Speaking with a friend who told me about this recipe, I took her word for the fact that she said, “pulled pork tenderloin is to die for…” and decided to make this for a lunch when first impressions meant everything.

I purchased two pieces of frozen pork tenderloin that was on special at NoFrills for $2.99 a pound. Each piece was $1.99, so together they were just over a pound. I slightly defrosted both pieces in my microwave oven so that I could cut them in half, in order to fit them in my crock pot (slow cooker).

Here’s my recipe: Read More…

Spaghetti and Meat Sauce in 30 Minutes – Fit for a King!

A good friend of mine told me about her great creation of easy to make spaghetti and meat sauce fit for entertaining guests with. All you need to serve this with is garlic bread and a bottle of wine!

Here’s what she told me, she used:

  • President’s Choice Salsa – medium
  • uncooked Italian sausages
  • water

Squeeze sausage meat out of the casings and into a frying pan. Fry constantly mashing with a fork so that the meat breaks apart in pieces (like frying ground beef). Drain off the fat, and pour in the salsa… and a bit of water into the frying pan. Simmer while your spaghetti noodles cook. Read More…

Quinoa Broccoli Cheese Casserole

Have you noticed? Everyone is talking about Quinoa now, so I got curious and decided to try it. Though claims have been made that Quinoa is a great replacement for rice, I wasn’t prepared to substitute it straight out for rice when making my favourite rice pudding. You see, I’m not a fan or tapioca pudding and Quinoa looks for-all-the-world like tapioca to me. Hence I searched for a brand new recipe; one I’d be more apt to love… of which here is my variation of Broccoli Cheese Casserole.
Bon appétit!

Read More…

Crispy Real Ginger-Flavoured Gingersnap Recipe

I’ve been in search of a GREAT crispy, REAL Ginger tasting gingersnap for some time now. Many recipes on the internet claimed to be THE best one. One recipe even claimed to be the recipe for the old, hot gingersnap that Nabisco used to sell.

Huh! That was a laugh.

That recipe had way to much sugar for my liking, so DO be careful to use LESS than the 1 cup of mixed sugars rather than more than. Read More…

1 2 3  Scroll to top