There's nothing better than spending time with family this long weekend and cooking up some comfort food. We love potatoes and so a hot skillet of chive Hasselback potatoes was a no brainer! Chive Hasselback Potatoes Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 40 minutes Total Time: 55 minutes Ingredients: 2 cups of baby potatoes 1/4 of diced chives 2 tbsp of olive oil 1 tbsp of dried oregano salt & pepper to taste Optional: 2 tbsp of Greek yogurt 1 tbsp of butter Instructions:

We've never really cooked much eggplant in our household so I was excited to dedicate this week to three eggplant recipes. My first trial recipe was baba ganoush made from roasted eggplant with garlic and a few other savory ingredients. Finished look. Photo by Robert Gontier. IPhone 6 Baba Ganoush Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 40 minutes Total Time: 50 minutes You can find the recipe I followed here at the delicious Food Wishes blog! http://foodwishes.blogspot.ca

During the week days we are up early and out of the house at the crack of dawn. This Banana Chia recipe is a great start to the day allowing the tummy to be full of fruit, nuts and chia seeds. It can be made many different ways. This recipe for us is always a winner! Final look. Photo by Robert Gontier. IPhone 6. Banana Chia Pudding Prep Time: 10 minutes Rest Time: 2 hours Total Time: 2 h & 10 minutes Find the recipe here: https://healthyblenderrecipes.com/recipes/5_m

After getting back from a recent work trip, I wanted to start this week with some home-cooked comfort food. We like the fresh smell of banana bread and love the taste even more. This week we'll be exploring different banana recipes and all of the tastiness they have to offer. Banana bread batter ready to go into the oven. Banana bread fresh from the oven. Photo by Robert Gontier. IPhone 6. Banana Bread Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 60 minutes Total Time: 80 minu

Love risotto? Us too! We whipped up some Fennel & Shrimp Risotto and it was a hearty, filling meal to end fennel week. This is what the final product looked like. Photo by Robert Gontier. iPhone 6. Fennel & Shrimp Risotto Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 60 minutes Thanks to BBC Good Food for the recipe: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1089640/fennel-and-lemon-risotto Enjoy! #risotto #recipe #fennel #shrimp

We love the taste of homemade soup in our house especially during the frosty winter months! A few roasted vegetables and some excellent veggie broth go a long way to bringing warmth to the body. Since we are exploring fennel this week, I decided to roast up some fennel and Roma tomatoes. In the end, this has become one of our family's favourite soups. Roasted fennel and tomatoes. Final soup! All photos by Robert Gontier. iPhone 6. Roasted Fennel & Tomato Soup Prep Time: 15 mi

Sometimes one of the best ways to eat vegetables is with a little olive oil, salt and pepper. Raw fennel has a very distinct flavour but when it gets roasted the flavour mellows into a delicious caramelized taste. For even more depth of flavour, sprinkle a little Parmesan on top while it's still hot from the oven! Fresh fennel from the market. Sliced and ready to be roasted. Final look with a few fennel sprigs over top. All photos by Robert Gontier. iPhone 6. Roasted Fennel P

Sometimes you just want a little comfort food and with our family it always comes back to pancakes! We love them with lots of different ingredients, including banana, walnuts and occasionally chocolate chips but for this week it was all about blueberries. The tart depth of flavour worked in great contrast to the pancake batter as well as the maple syrup. One thing, among many, I love about Canada is there's always access to high quality maple syrup. What a treat. The finished

For our final spinach recipe of the week, we cooked up a spinach pasta sauce along with freshly made pasta from one of our favourite restaurants - Terroni. Here's the noodles below. Spinach Pasta Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 35 minutes Ingredients: 2 handfuls of spaghetti 1 cup of spinach (from frozen) 1 cup of broccoli 1/2 cup of pesto 1 onion 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp of salt Instructions: 1) Saute the onions in the olive oil on medium heat.

There's something kind of nice about a mid-week dinner that can be put together in 20 minutes and then placed in the oven while you feed & bathe the kids. My husband and I love tucking the twins in and then enjoying a grown-up meal together. There also might be a little wine involved. Tonight I made a Spinach & Potato Gratin with onions and some excellent cheese. I love Ina Garten and have adapted one of her succulent recipes to get the results below. This is the beginning st