Category: Kid-Friendly

Try kid-friendly recipes with fun ingredients. Make mealtimes exciting with traditional and creative dishes.

Savoury Roast Chicken on a Charcoal Grill

Roast chicken is another one of those go-to comfort meals you can count on for ease, great taste, and best of all—leftovers. We like to make ours more savoury, using fresh herbs from our garden with olive oil. There’s nothing like the scent of roast chicken from your kitchen oven during colder months. But in…

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Bobotie (sweet and curried ground beef casserole)

A few years ago we had a summer holiday in southern Germany, including a stay in Heidelberg. We spent an afternoon visiting wineries on the German Wine Route (Deutsche Weinstraße) and made a stop at Hammel & Cie. Their wines are delicious and very reasonably priced—we had a box of 12 wines shipped home to…

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Oma Marion’s Chicken Sloppy Joes on Croissants

Sloppy Joes is a popular American dish, traditionally made with ground beef. This version of Sloopy Joes is made with chicken, turkey, or duck, and was handed down by Ralph’s mother Marion. It’s simple yet bursting with comfort-food flavour—a perfect weeknight dinner and a great way to use up leftover roast chicken or turkey and…

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Air Fryer Shrimp & Turkey Spring Rolls

Buying an air fryer was not my idea; it was my son’s. I didn’t agree with it, as I didn’t know anything about them and thought it was just one more appliance to clutter up our kitchen. I told him that if he wanted it, he would need to buy it. So he ordered it….

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Beef Burritos

This recipe is adapted from one I found in the June 2009 issue of Martha Stewart Living called Crispy Tacos Picadillo. As you can see from the recipe pic, it’s been used a lot – food splashes and all. It’s one of my son’s favourite recipes since he was little. I also made it a…

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