Melanie Amorim aka Mommy Doodles
Serving Mom breakfast in bed is a traditional way to kick off a Mother’s Day celebration, but what happens when she gets hungry later? If your kitchen skills aren’t the greatest, or if you’re having a Mother’s Day get-together with friends and you want to keep the cooking and cleaning chores at a minimum, appetizers [...]
Cappuccinos are one of the nation’s favourite hot drinks – whether drank as a pick-me-up to start the day or an afternoon treat with a biscuit or slice of cake! However, even though most people love drinking a cappuccino, not many know how to make a good one for themselves – or even what they [...]
I never thought this would be my quick goto lunch … It’s deli turkey, roasted eggplant, cherry tomatoes and hummus. On a flat bread pita pocket. The oven was already on so the eggplant was a bonus! Related Reading:
What can I say – nothing beats a real apple pie but this was quick and easy. The crust was impressive for a box, throw a few cherries on it and done! I followed a combination of the pie crust box recipe and can recipe. The apples were very sweet but after baking seemed to [...]
Seven top online recipes to make Italian food at home It has happened to us all: you love a dish you try at an Italian restaurant, but when you go home and try recreate the dish yourself it comes out like a culinary leaning tower of pisa – funny to look at but definitely [...]
Here it is! You see it happening online live via social media but it does take some time to properly put together a somewhat decent blog post. I saw this cake (weeks ago and saved image on my phone) on pinterest and knew it would be perfect to try… You’ve heard those words right ? [...]
A Pinterest recipe eye-spy ! I later google searched and found a bunch but focused on this recipe. It required having a fresh cauliflower, which I have never worked with or purchased. That was step one. We were having pizza for dinner – it would go perfect! I ‘wing it’ with recipes so some of these other steps [...]
So not all plans go well. This past holiday weekend, I was getting a bit over-confident ahead of myself in the kitchen with a few days in a row on vacation from work. This recipe started with “so, I bought a lemon…” I searched and found some recipes. Before dumping everything in I even bothered to brown the chicken [...]
Soup #2 of 2011-2012 ? I guess in January of 2011 I had a goal to make three soups from scratch. I may have abandoned that goal along the way because I believe this is soup number two, since Jan of 2011… That is if you count chili as a soup ? Soup intimidates me, my weakness in the [...]
We cooked up some pulled pork this weekend. It was very simple with the Crock-Pot BBQ Pulled Pork Seasoning Mix. As simple as it is I did not have a few of the ingredients, so I just used the seasoning mix, pre-made BBQ sauce and grape jelly. It took about 5 hours on high to break [...]
