Bacon Onion Turnovers

These Bacon Onion Turnovers are bursting with flavour that everyone will enjoy! These are as good as they sound! Eat a few or eat a lot! They are just fantastic little portable pockets of love. I found these gems on Taste of Home many years ago and have been making them ever since. Bacon Onion Turnovers…

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Kale & Shallot Phyllo Pizza

Finished Kale and Shallot Phyllo Pizza

This Kale & Shallot Phyllo Pizza is a unique twist on pizza using fresh produce. I handle 1000’s of pounds of fresh produce every week. It is a food lovers dream and I am loving my job. It has inspired my use of fresh fruits and vegetables even more then I thought possible. My greatest…

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A Taste of Barrhead

I had the pleasure of attending the second Taste of Barrhead this afternoon. Hosted by the Barrhead & District Chamber of Commerce, it was an opportunity for local businesses, churches and community groups to gather and present foods from the various countries around the world. From the moment I pulled up to the school I was…

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Creamy Bacon Lentil Soup

This Creamed Bacon Lentil Soup Features Canadian lentils and smoky bacon for the perfect creamy soup. 2014 seems to be the year of the lentil. I started off creating recipes from The Big Book of Little Lentils cookbook. Then it was announced that Canadian Lentils  was having a recipe contest that has seemed to explode online.…

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Lentil Mushroom Pate

This Lentil Mushroom Pate has incredible flavour featuring Canadian Lentils. Looking for an interesting appetizer for the Canadian Lentils contest I wanted to do something very different. The earthiness of mushrooms seemed like a natural paring with lentils, some shallots garlic and thyme with a hit of lemon was the perfect balance. It felt like…

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