Marie Campbell🍁
@justplaincooking.ca
Nova Scotia food nerd | Author
Practical Canadian cooking at justplaincooking.ca
Feeding people with love & stubbornness
Mom x6 | Brain tumour survivor
Kindness first · 🌈⃤🦋
Practical Canadian cooking at justplaincooking.ca
Feeding people with love & stubbornness
Mom x6 | Brain tumour survivor
Kindness first · 🌈⃤🦋
What’s the difference between jam, jelly, compote, chutney, coulis, and sauce? Learn how each fruit preserve is made, how to use them, and which recipes to try. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Jam, Jelly, Compote, Coulis, Sauce: What’s the Difference?
What’s the difference between jam, jelly, compote, chutney, coulis, and sauce? Learn how each fruit preserve is made, how to use them, and which recipes to try.
justplaincooking.ca
June 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
What’s the difference between jam, jelly, compote, chutney, coulis, and sauce? Learn how each fruit preserve is made, how to use them, and which recipes to try. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Delicious and resourceful! These Carrot Cake Muffins made with leftovers are easy to make - no grating, no waste. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
No-Grate Carrot Cake Muffins – Use Up Those Leftover Veggies!
No-Grate Carrot Cake Muffins - made with leftover cooked carrots and fruit sauce. Moist, flexible, and freezer-friendly. No grating required!
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June 9, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Delicious and resourceful! These Carrot Cake Muffins made with leftovers are easy to make - no grating, no waste. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Tired of soggy coleslaw leftovers? This freezer-friendly version stays crisp and tangy thanks to a hot vinegar brine. Perfect for garden gluts and CSA overloads. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Easy Freezer Coleslaw
Tired of soggy coleslaw leftovers? This freezer-friendly version stays crisp and tangy thanks to a hot vinegar brine. Perfect for garden gluts and CSA overloads.
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June 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Tired of soggy coleslaw leftovers? This freezer-friendly version stays crisp and tangy thanks to a hot vinegar brine. Perfect for garden gluts and CSA overloads. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Oven Roasted Pork Belly Slices: Perfectly seasoned with mustard, paprika, and brown sugar, roasted to crispy perfection in just 25 minutes. Ideal for a quick and delicious meal. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Barbecue Roasted Pork Belly Slices
Oven Roasted Pork Belly Slices: Perfectly seasoned with mustard, paprika, and brown sugar, roasted to crispy perfection in just 25 minutes. Ideal for a quick and delicious meal.
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June 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Oven Roasted Pork Belly Slices: Perfectly seasoned with mustard, paprika, and brown sugar, roasted to crispy perfection in just 25 minutes. Ideal for a quick and delicious meal. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
I stretched four pounds of grapes into a winter's supply of no-pectin jelly. Here's how. No-Waste Grape Jelly with Apples 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
No-Waste Grape Jelly with Apples
Turn four pounds of grapes and a few wrinkly apples into nearly 20 jars of no-waste grape jelly. This heritage-inspired recipe skips the pectin and jelly bag, doubles your juice yield, and fills your pantry with deep purple preserves that taste like ch...
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June 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I stretched four pounds of grapes into a winter's supply of no-pectin jelly. Here's how. No-Waste Grape Jelly with Apples 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Gluten-Free Chicken Caesar Salad! No croutons, roasted chicken breasts, and a quick mayo/yogurt dressing. Delicious and healthy! 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Chicken Caesar Salad
🍗🥗 Gluten-Free Chicken Caesar Salad! No croutons, roasted chicken breasts, and a quick mayo/yogurt dressing. Delicious and healthy!
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June 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Gluten-Free Chicken Caesar Salad! No croutons, roasted chicken breasts, and a quick mayo/yogurt dressing. Delicious and healthy! 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
A quick pickle that is ready in an hour? These Paleo Pickled Jalapeno Peppers and Red Onions give an extra zing to Mexican and Tex Mex dishes - or anywhere you need a snap of flavour.
Pickled Jalapeno Peppers and Red Onions
A quick pickle that is ready in an hour? These Paleo Pickled Jalapeno Peppers and Red Onions give an extra zing to Mexican and Tex Mex dishes - or anywhere you need a snap of flavour.
justplaincooking.ca
June 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A quick pickle that is ready in an hour? These Paleo Pickled Jalapeno Peppers and Red Onions give an extra zing to Mexican and Tex Mex dishes - or anywhere you need a snap of flavour.
Pasta Amatriciana is a quick and easy pasta dish from Italy. Traditionally, it contains only ingredients that are available to a simple rural grocery store, and it is very adaptable. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Pasta Amatriciana
Need a fast dinner that doesn’t taste like “fast dinner”? Pasta Amatriciana is the ultimate weeknight hero - bacon (or pancetta, or guanciale if you’re fancy), tomatoes, onion, garlic, and a hit of red pepper flakes come together in one pan for a dish ...
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June 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Pasta Amatriciana is a quick and easy pasta dish from Italy. Traditionally, it contains only ingredients that are available to a simple rural grocery store, and it is very adaptable. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Turn a bag of bell peppers and a few jalapenos into Spicy Pickled Peppers that last all year. Flexible, small batch & a great way to save produce before it spoils. (Peppers are such divas) 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Spicy Pickled Peppers (Water Bath Canning Version)
Turn a bag of bell peppers and jalapeños into spicy pickled peppers that last all year. This flexible canning recipe saves produce before it spoils and adds zing to everything from burgers to cheese boards.
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June 5, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Turn a bag of bell peppers and a few jalapenos into Spicy Pickled Peppers that last all year. Flexible, small batch & a great way to save produce before it spoils. (Peppers are such divas) 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Braised Chicken Thighs with Portobello Mushrooms and Goat Cheese is gluten-free meal and comes together in less than an hour. Company worthy, weeknight easy. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Braised Chicken Thighs with Portobello Mushrooms and Goat Cheese
Braised Chicken Thighs with Mushrooms + Goat Cheese = rich, creamy comfort food - flavour-packed, easy, and gluten-free! Great for company or dinner at home.
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June 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Braised Chicken Thighs with Portobello Mushrooms and Goat Cheese is gluten-free meal and comes together in less than an hour. Company worthy, weeknight easy. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Turn unripe garden tomatoes into something special with old-fashioned Green Tomato Mincemeat. It tastes nothing like tomatoes - just pure holiday joy. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Green Tomato Mincemeat
Got baskets of green tomatoes after the first frost? Turn them into spiced Green Tomato Mincemeat - a traditional Nova Scotia preserve that becomes the best holiday pies and tarts.
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June 4, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Turn unripe garden tomatoes into something special with old-fashioned Green Tomato Mincemeat. It tastes nothing like tomatoes - just pure holiday joy. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Beef Stroganoff is creamy, savory, and just the kind of cozy dish you crave on a chilly night. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Easy Pantry Beef Stroganoff (Russian-Inspired)
Tender slices of rump steak cooked with onions and canned mushrooms in a creamy beef broth - quick to make, cozy to eat, and perfect over noodles or rice.
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June 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Beef Stroganoff is creamy, savory, and just the kind of cozy dish you crave on a chilly night. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Homemade Plum Sauce is a frugal Nova Scotia sauce made from pureed pumpkin. Perfect for chicken or egg rolls! 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Nova Scotia Plum Sauce (with Pumpkin Puree)
Homemade Plum Sauce with Pumpkin Puree - sweet, tangy, and perfect for dipping chicken or egg rolls. A Nova Scotian classic made with pantry staples. No plums needed! Keeps for 2 months in the fridge. Try it with roasted pork or spring rolls.
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June 3, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Homemade Plum Sauce is a frugal Nova Scotia sauce made from pureed pumpkin. Perfect for chicken or egg rolls! 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Air Fryer Pork Tenderloin and Potatoes cooks all together. Ready in under an hour with a creamy roasted garlic sauce. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Air Fryer Pork Tenderloin and Potatoes
Air Fryer Pork Tenderloin and Potatoes - juicy pork, crispy potatoes, and a velvety roasted garlic cream sauce. No greasy pans, no fuss. A cozy dinner done in under an hour that tastes like Sunday but fits a Tuesday.
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June 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Air Fryer Pork Tenderloin and Potatoes cooks all together. Ready in under an hour with a creamy roasted garlic sauce. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
It's easy to make real vanilla extract at home - for your own use and as a delightful food gift. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
DIY Making Vanilla Extract at Home
DIY Vanilla Extract - just vodka and vanilla beans! A simple, pure, and budget-friendly way to elevate your baking and make thoughtful food gifts.
justplaincooking.ca
June 2, 2026 at 10:35 AM
It's easy to make real vanilla extract at home - for your own use and as a delightful food gift. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
A quick and healthy dinner, Lime Butter Grouper pairs with your favorite side dish and is on the table in under half an hour. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Lime Butter Grouper
A quick and healthy dinner, Lime Butter Grouper pairs with your favorite side dish and is on the table in under half an hour.
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June 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
A quick and healthy dinner, Lime Butter Grouper pairs with your favorite side dish and is on the table in under half an hour. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Slow cooker pumpkin butter - it's the best and easiest way to make this delicious topping. Made from canned or homemade puree, it cooks with little work. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking
Easy Slow Cooker Pumpkin Butter
🍁 Cozy up with this Easy Slow Cooker Pumpkin Butter! Made with maple syrup or honey, it’s perfect on toast, yogurt, or pancakes. Fall in a jar!
justplaincooking.ca
June 1, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Slow cooker pumpkin butter - it's the best and easiest way to make this delicious topping. Made from canned or homemade puree, it cooks with little work. 🍯🍽️ 🍜 #food #WhatsCooking #JustPlainCooking