The Mother’s Day dinner that I prepared for my wife was done the night before on Saturday as our daughter was planning a surprise breakfast for her, lunch at her parents and supper at my parents on Sunday.  Made for a very busy weekend.
For this meal, I prepared a bbq pork chop topped with a [...]

This morning my wife suggested I try  pork chops with apples so I pulled out the pressure cooker to make lunch.
In the pressure cooker I combined:

5 pork chops
4 sliced apples
1 Tbsp cinnamon
2 Tbsp sugar syrup
2 Tbsp sliced almonds

I added enough water to cover the pork chops and then turned on the pressure cooker.  Once it [...]

For my first experience using my new pressure cooker, I decided to try pork chops.  We had some pork chops in the freezer that weren’t a great cut and they were a little tough so I wanted to see if they would be any easier to eat this way.

I placed 5 defrosted pork chops in [...]

A few weeks back Canadian Tire had Fresco pressure cookers on sale. I have never used a pressure cooker before but have always wanted to try one so we picked up the larger, 9 L Fresco pressure cooker. The pressure cooker is heavy gauge aluminum with stay cool handles and 4 built-in safety features including [...]

The final day of the one week fast (she has decided to take a bit of time off before going forward with all three weeks) and Crystal has been having cravings for flat bread.  The issue, flatbread is made with ingredients that are forbidden within this fast.  She seemed kind of bummed about this so [...]

Almost done! So far so good.  Today we were talking about it and Crystal is so glad that she did this Fast… and that she is considering on doing it for 3 weeks, not just the one!  I was shocked at first, but thought about it and really, it wouldn’t be so bad.  I must admit, [...]

Into Day 5 of the Daniel Fast, I needed to keep the interest in continuing with the Fast.  For lunch, Crystal prepared a vegetable stir fry over brown rice.  I was a little surprised when I came home at lunch to have it ready to eat, honestly thought that I would be cooking lunch as well.  [...]

Hello – It’s Crystal here. For those who don’t know me, I am Dave’s wife. Yep – that lucky woman who never has to cook lol. Dave has been very busy the last few days with work and helping my sister move but he has still been cooking and has some great challenges to share [...]