A slow cooker makes homemade refried beans so easy, and homemade is so much better – recipes are customizable, and the food is better tasting and healthier, especially the salt content. Canned foods often have so much salt added as a flavour enhancer and preservative but that’s not so great for our health. This recipe does add some salt, but…

Frog Eye Salad is a fruit salad which a tendency to make people give me a worried look, like I’ve lost my mind. Maybe so, but that’s more than this blog can cover. Once they’ve tried it, though, most really like it. It is not a universally loved food, but it is love by many, liked by most of the…

I make this potato salad so often that I’d forgotten it was even on the website. I went to add it and there it was, from March 2009! I’ve only recently – in the past couple years – been brave enough to make this for people outside our house and have gotten nothing but happy stomachs and requests to make…

There is a bar for perfect coleslaw, as far as I am concerned, and it is very, very high. It’s been about 10 years since I last ate at KFC in the US, but their coleslaw was on the ball. I haven’t had coleslaw that really hit that craving since, and I missed it. I’ve tried so many times over…

This Spanish Rice has been a staple side dish with our Mexican style meals for over a decade now, before we moved to Alberta. Originally posted on January 7, 2009, the original recipe used chicken broth. We started using Better Than Bouillon when Costco started carrying it here and it’s a great improvement, but you can definitely enjoy this using…