Grandma's General Health Soup

One of the benefits of growing up in a large family is the variety of food you get at dinner every day. When my grandparents lived with us, my grandma would make a different soup every day just because we can finish 1 big...

Dried Goods for Soup

This is my first post in my Chinese Soup series. When you start making Chinese soup, you'll start collecting a lot of different types of dried goods. Some items like Apricot Kernels and Honey Dates are more often used then...

Early Spring = Early work in gardens

Yesterday was officially the first day of spring! First year for gardening so I'm very excited. Since the start of March,  we've been experiencing May like weather. Usually, there's still a risk of frost in May and we...

Ginger Red Date Tea for Yang Restoration

Since it's season changing time, it's a good time to look at boosting your immune system. It's a very simple tea with ingredients that have benefits to boosting different aspects of your body. If you just read about the ingredients...

Blogger Vs Wordpress

Over the next few months, I'll be testing out WordPress to see if it'll be a better blogging platform then Bloggers. I'll post blogs on both websites and look for results. I think each site has their pros and cons. Since I'm...

Butternut squash roast chicken in La Cloche

One thing I like about winter is the winter veggies. Butternut squash is probably one of my favourite For an easy to make dinner, I decided to roast my chicken with the squash in the La Cloche. It only takes about an hour...