2014 - Page 2 of 8 - Bridget's Green Kitchen

Year: 2014

Currant Fruit Buns and John Brock’s life long piggy bank

November 27, 2014 0 comments

Currant fruit buns: an old fashioned scone that’s mildly sweet and flakey. The recipe came from Gourmet Magazine sometime around 1976. It caught mom’s eye because she was hosting an English-style tea for some elderly neighbours and little currant buns fit the theme. That was the year we moved into […]

Old Fashioned Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe from Maine

November 8, 2014 0 comments

There’s nothing like an old fashioned oatmeal chocolate chip cookie to make you feel satisfied. They’re filling in a way that other cookies aren’t and leave you feeling like you’ve had a bit of a healthy treat. We were a family that often vacationed in Maine. We’d cross the border […]

Green Living

Top 4 Reasons to Buy Local Food

November 2, 2014 0 comments

Locally grown food tastes better, plain and simple. There’s nothing like a locally grown carrot to remind you of why buying local is so great, and tasty. Carrots pulled from Fullerton’s gardens on the Kingston Peninsula are sweet and loaded with flavor, nothing like the bland carrots I’ll eat through […]

Healthy Whole Wheat Trail Mix Cookies

October 27, 2014 0 comments

Cookies have the potential to be the perfect snack food. You can tuck all sorts of healthy stuff into them for a nutritious snack and sweet treat all in one. My kids used to eat any kind of cookie I put in front of them. In fact, they’d eat way too may […]

Lentils, Soups

Mom’s Lentil Sausage Soup from Ina Garten

October 24, 2014 0 comments

Lentil sausage soup is a hearty meal with great flavour and texture. The no-sausage vegetarian version is delicious too. We always joked that my dad was the reluctant vegetarian. Lentils were not his preferred food, although he could eat canned peas so go figure. One time mom was away he […]