Canadian mardi gras recipes

Pepper Squash Soup

This soup is creamy, velvety, tasty and could be served as an entrée for a special meal and occasion.

Mom's Sangria

Sangria always reminds me of Spain, a place where you can drink Sangria just about everywhere. A fruity, refreshing drink in the summer or any…

Poutine from Québec

A poutine is a Quebec traditional dish. It is served in most fast food restaurants and consists of french fries and cheddar cheese curds covered…

Herbed Tomato Sauce for Chicken or Veal Parmigiana

You will love this homemade Herbed tomato sauce. I serve it on top of veal or chicken cutlets and spaghettini…

Smoked salmon WITHOUT SMOKE

An excellent gravlax appetizer. Serve with or without cream cheese on thin crackers or fresh baguette slices.

Blue gardenia salad

This wonderful salad is the specialty of a restaurant in my area. It is my all time favourite salad. It tastes fantastic and is very garlicky.…

Curried lentil and rice salad

A flavourful, curried lentil and rice salad for healthy conscious cooks.

Apple, Cinnamon Rice Pudding

Rice pudding with twist. My husband's favourite dessert.

Warm artichoke dip

A tasty, elegant, warm dip to serve with rice or water crackers when entertaining.

Herbed Dip

This is my favourite low calorie, fat free, savoury, all purpose dip. You can use it on baked potatoes or as a chip dip or as a dip for fresh…

Sunflower oil pie crust

This pie crust is ideal for vegetarians AND vegans. Sunflower oil is used instead of lard. It has now become my goto pie crust recipe for all my…

Mitch's Smoky Spicy BBQ sauce

My BBQ sauce is spicy and sweet, has a smoked flavour and is great with pulled pork, pulled beef or pulled chicken sandwiches. You can serve it…

My Favourite Pasta Salad

This is my favourite gourmet summertime pasta salad because I can substitute a lot of ingredients in this recipe and it is colourful, fancy,…

Chocolate Spice Cake

Maple Apple Delight

A delicious, sweet, easy to prepare dessert for the whole family. Serve with vanilla ice cream.