What's for lunch? How about a bacon, spinach and tomato sandwich? Quickly make sandwiches to fill your stomach. Daniel always prepares the meals ahead of time thinking about the meals as he shops. He enjoys going to the local market called the Wolfville Farmer's Market. All of the ingredients he uses can be purchased there,...
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Daniel's Kamado Joe With A Couple of Recipes
Discouraged by how many BBQs you see on the side of the road during spring and fall clean up, there has to be something better. Every year, our region has free pick-up for anything you want to throw out. The streets are lined with BBQs. The bodies rust out; the parts don't last. Replacement parts...
Tortillas for Days Daniel Style
Planning for more than one dinner or lunch is vital for a working family. Doing the prep work at one time can span several meals. Mixed with two different salsas. I've included recipes that can inspire your next meal below. Meat Preparation Daniel prepared the pork in the morning and let it marinate until the...
Let's Eat Series with Daniel
Daniel Zondervan is our host to homemade cooking and baking. He puts together a daily lunch and dinner. He plans ahead and cooks with heart. The dogs are never far away when he's in the kitchen. Since meeting Daniel in 2009, he's always prepared lunch and supper. I have never seen someone with so many...
Woodsy Spring Pasta Dish
A generous portion of pasta mixed with in-season things from the Wolfville Farmer's Market. Lunch for two featuring ingredients that are short-lived here in Nova Scotia. Fiddleheads are a brief timeframe of the ferns in the shaded areas in Nova Scotia. The ferns are fresh out and not big enough to open to turn into...
No To The Dog... Human Cookies
How on earth will we eat so many Dried Fruit Oat Cookies? Seriously Daniel? First of all, yummy! Let me check my belt for more notches! Daniel has a recipe for you from Robin Hood. Get the recipe here. Instead of doing each dried fruit independently, he used a batch of premixed dried fruit mix...
Homemade Salad Dressing and Garbage Salad
Sounds appetizing, eh! Daniel makes his salad dressing on the fly, as he needs it. When I moved in with Daniel, I brought a bottled salad dressing, and he had a conniption! He threw it out. The horror! I like, what is going on? Is this a relationship ending before it begins? I never really...
Farmhouse Weekends, Recommended by Daniel
Daniel is currently working through recipes from Farmhouse Weekends by Melissa Bahen. We don't do affiliates with Amazon, but you can find it there. Daniel picked this book at the ranch we did the crochet retreat in Arizona. It was in the gift shop of the Rancho de los Caballeros. The book dives into the...