Tea Buns

2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1/2 sugar
1 teaspoon baking power
2 cups water

form into paddies and bake at 350 c for 20 minutes.
Should make 12 buns

I found this on Youtube.

No idea who this dude is but he can sing!
And it's suppose to be a Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers song.

Veggie Gumbo #1

1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup sliced peppers
1 chopped carrot
1 can tomato soup
4 cups water
2 vegetable broth cubes
2 veggy hot dogs
3 cups rice


Melt butter with garlic, add celery and peppers, stir for 5 minutes on low heat then add carrots. Let cook for 10 minutes then add broth cubes and 2 cups of water. Stir for 5 minutes then add tomato soup and remaining water. Let boil for 20 minutes then slice up veggy dogs and add to mixture. Let cook on low heat for another 10 minutes.

Prepare rice as always and dish over it.

*Veggy Dogs can be replaced with Italian veggy sausage*

Easy Creamy Garlic Sauce...My butt

I snagged a recipe from one of the girls on my women's site, thinking it seems so simple.
Once again it didn't work for me. But here is the recipe.


Creamy Garlic Sauce

1 cup milk
2 table spoons butter
2 teaspoons chopped chives
2 teaspoons minced garlic
2 tablespoons flour
chopped parsley
salt

Melt butter, stir in milk, bring to boil, add garlic, flour and whisk, turn down heat, add chives , parsley and salt. Continue to whisk for 4 more minutes on low heat, remove from heat and serve over hot pasta.


Well, for me it turned out too sticky and overly garlic. Next time, I think I will up the butter and down the garlic amounts.

Vampire Themed Dinner

What have I gotten myself into?
I am doing an All Vamp Challenge and one of my challenges is to make a vampire themed dinner for a dinner party.

What am I going to do for that? I have been to the Martha Stewart website trying to find some of her easier themed items but am still coming up at a loss.

I ended up sick over Thanksgiving (Canadian Thanksgiving is in October) so there was no cooking of any kind for me.
And with the book tour for Stacey Voss, and my own book deadline I have been eating on the run; in other words alot of Starbucks coffee and Egg Salad sandwiches.

Once the book tour is over which is end of Nov, and the deadline for my novel which is Dec 5th 2009, I will be back full force on here.

Oct 4 2009

Just a quick post to say that I am still alive and have not forgotten about the blog.
Hoping with the holidays coming up to have a few new ideas on here.
At the moment, I am part of a book tour for author Stacey Voss. Which you can get details for here
There has been nothing much exciting food wise in my place the last week. Just some homemade raspberry jam.

Which is the simplest thing ever.

Raspberry jam

*1 pound raspberries fresh
*2 cups sugar
*2 table spoons water

Boil for half hour.

Photo of : Beet and Potato Salad

Photos by Kimberly Hulst copyright hcvp'09

I know made the recipe few months ago, but did not add a photo at the time.

Well, mom decided to make a Newfoundland Beet and Potato Salad today, so I snagged a photo of it.

You can find the recipe in this post here
cause I am too lazy to retype it.

NOTE* mom used green onions for her's.