Tag Archives: bacon

Breakfast Egg Wrap #WakeUptoYellow!

This Breakfast Egg Wrap is the perfect way to start your morning. Full of delicious local eggs, it's great to #wakeuptoyellow!
This Breakfast Egg Wrap is the perfect way to start your morning. Full of delicious local eggs, it's great to #wakeuptoyellow! This post is sponsored by the #WakeUpToYellow Campaign. All opinions are my own, based on my own experience.   In May, Halifax and cities across Canada were treated to an egg-ceptional morning! The weather may have… Read More

Savory Oatmeal with Bacon, Eggs and Chives

Get your day off to a good start with savory oatmeal. Topped with bacon, eggs and chives, it'll show you a whole new way to enjoy your breakfast!   If you're anything like me, sometimes you get into food ruts. The same thing for breakfast, the same thing for lunch, the same 6 meals over and… Read More

Whisky and Apple Bacon Wrapped Scallops

Crispy Maple Leaf bacon wrapped around tender scallops, barbecued on skewers with slices of apple and drizzled with a whisky and balsamic vinegar.
Crispy Maple Leaf Canadian Craft Canadian Whisky and Apple Bacon wrapped around tender scallops, barbecued on skewers with slices of apple and drizzled with a whisky and balsamic vinegar. This is a continuation of my local Nova Scotia food series (though slightly out of season!).  This post is sponsored by Maple Leaf Canadian Craft. All opinions… Read More

Bacon and Fiddlehead Spaghetti

Fiddleheads are so crisp and sweet, they're the perfect counterpart to the salty bacon in this recipe for Bacon and Fiddlehead Spaghetti!
Fiddleheads are so crisp and sweet, they're the perfect counterpart to the salty bacon in this recipe for Bacon and Fiddlehead Spaghetti! To say I love where I live is an understatement. Nova Scotia is one of the most beautiful places in the world, and even after all our travels it still takes my breath… Read More

Bacon-Wrapped Dates

Crispy bacon wrapped around sweet dates, these babies are the perfect appetizer! Bacon Wrapped Dates - I Say Nomato Nightshade Free Food Blog
In the little town where I went to university, there is a pub that makes THE BEST burgers I have ever eaten. Seriously, on all our travels I could find nothing to fill the hole that burger left in my heart. It’s the kind of burger that you pick up and everything falls off because… Read More

Hearty Winter Butternut Squash Soup

This Hearty Winter Butternut Squash Soup recipe will stick to your ribs! It's thick and creamy and ohhh so delicious!
There’s a picture that’s been floating around our little Maritime nook of the internet, on Facebook, on twitter. It's an infamous picture of a stack of wilted, withering cauliflower at the grocery store with a sign reading '$7.99 each' underneath it. Another picture is of cucumbers - $3 each. Lettuce, spinach, $6.00. Canada, it seems,… Read More

Quick and Easy Broccoli Salad

Quick and Easy Broccoli Salad - I Say Nomato Nightshade Free Food Blog
This is my go-to salad for Broccoli Emergencies. You know, like when there are respectable people coming over and you have to at least pretend that you weren't just planning on eating a bowl of cereal for dinner. (Which I never ever do...) Broccoli is easily one of the most impressive foods at emergency dinner. You can… Read More

Nightshade Free Nachos

My family has a deep and abiding love of awful jokes. One time on a 5 hour road trip, we made tree puns for the whole drive. You’d think we’d have run out of material. You’d be wrong. Seriously, if we had to choose between life and never telling another groaner again, we’d be toast. So… Read More

Feta and Bacon Stuffed Mushrooms

Real Talk Time: mushrooms are weird. Whichever one of our ancestors looked at these weird white things growing on a rotten tree and decided to not only touch them, but eat them, must have been verrrry hungry. Not to mention they probably died because they ate the poisonous ones. Thank you for your sacrifice, Oog-Oog,… Read More

Collectable Delectables: June 10, 2015

Welcome to another roundup of all the amazing things I've seen on the internet this week! 1) These Elvis Ice Cream Snackwiches from Joy the Baker are amazing. Ritz crackers, peanut butter, ice cream, bananas AND bacon? Count me in! 2) Summer is officially here, and that means cool drinks on the patio! Try these Pineapple Coconut… Read More