2012 is coming to an end and Food and Whine is turning 3 years old! I can’t believe I’ve been writing this food blog for 3 years now. When I started, my oldest was 3 and my youngest was 1. Now they’re 6 and 4, and are looking forward to being big brothers to a…
Category: Life with the Whiners
Bennett’s Birthday Party: Keeping it Simple
There’s my handsome son Bennett at his 4th birthday party. Ever since Cole’s party a month earlier, he’s been waiting for this day. His real birthday was Sept 13th, but with school starting and with Tony working almost every weekend that month, we put off the party until the last weekend in September. It was such a busy month…
Homemade Fruit Bars
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll know that I am on an epic search for the perfect homemade fruit-filled bar. You can read about my past experiments in Fruit-Filled Mini Cereal Bars and Fruit-Filled Mini Cereal Bars, Revisted. They were both good attempts, but I always felt they weren’t quite there yet. I…
Granola Medallions
It’s that time again…back to school! I always find it such a chore to come up with new and creative lunch ideas when packing school lunches. I get stuck in a rut of packing the same old things day in and day out. Usually at the beginning of the year I have all sorts of great…
Wonton Soup
I love pretty much all types of dumplings. Whether they’re wontons, gyozas, empanadas, samosas or perogies, I love biting into carblicious dough to uncover the yummy fillings hiding inside them. Not only are they fun to eat, they’re also fun to make. The kids loved helping me make these wontons for our wonton soup. It was surprisingly easy to…
The Best Bran Muffins
A fellow food blogger, Ashley from Ashley’s Cooking Adventures, is expecting a baby next month! I was excited to join in a virtual baby shower for her and post a brunch recipe, but I unfortunately I was sick all last week and wasn’t able to prepare anything. This post is dedicated to her, and what better day…
Granola Brittle
Every now and then I come up with a recipe that I just can’t wait to share, so I impatiently bump it to the front of the line of recipes to post. This is one of those great recipes. I’m giddy just typing about it! It’s sort of like a crunchy granola bar, but broken into uneven…
Banana Pudding
There are so many ways to enjoy bananas. You can make banana pancakes, banana muffins, banana waffles , banana ice cream, banana loaf, banana cake…the list goes on and on. In fact, Dole has compiled 366 different ways to use bananas. As a way to encourage people to eat more fruits and vegetables this year, Dole has…
Top 10 Recipes of 2011
Well, it’s almost the end of another year and Food and Whine will be 2 years old. 2011 has been a good year for this little blog. I was selected as one of the top 100 food mom bloggers by babble.com. It was an honour to be recognized among so many very talented bloggers. We were given…
Low Fat Multigrain Pancakes
Growing up, my favourite time of the week was Saturday morning. My brother and I would race to be the first one downstairs to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Soon the smell of pancakes would waft into the room, and we’d be racing once again to get to the table for breakfast where a plate of…
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