“If I have a wish for readers it is that they create a kitchen that is the heart of the home — you can give your family and friends no greater gift than that of kinship, warmth and caring: simple pleasures from your kitchen.” 

Historically the kitchen is the heart of the Maritime home.  For, in the kitchen, homemakers, mothers and housekeepers — along with putting three square meals on the table a day — fashioned clothing, hooked mats, made candles, oversaw lessons and balanced household accounts.  And, most importantly, they provided a warm, welcome haven for kith and kin. 

 Winner of the GOLD!  - Food Culture Award

presented by

Cuisine Canada and the University of Guelph

 Full of recipes and kitchen lore, Simple Pleasures from our Maritimes Kitchens is a celebration of good, old-fashioned home cooking as well as a loving account of Atlantic Canada’s rich culinary heritage.  With a chapter for each month, this book takes the reader through a year in the life of a Maritime kitchen.  Watson also brings the area’s history to life with excerpts from authentic regional cookbooks from the early 20^th century.  Simple Pleasures features simple, wholesome and delicious dishes for every kind of meal and occasion — year round.

Simple Pleasures From Our Maritime Kitchens

by Julie V. Watson

ISBN 1-55192-461-7 published by Raincoast Books,

204 pages, Perfect Binding.  $18.00

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“People seem to appreciate the how-to approach, the down home recipes and the basic information about seafood.”

Favorite Recipes

 From Olde

Prince Edward Island

 Kitchens

 By: Julie V. Watson

Memories of the great food created in the home kitchens of day’s past can set our mouths to watering as we recall the goodness of such dishes a Blueberry Buckle, Lamb and Rosemary, Baked Squash, Seafood Chowder, Molasses Cookies, Salmon Pate, Pot Roast, Rhubarb Shortcake........the list of goodness from yesteryear seems endless.

 Using basic ingredients Prince Edward Island’s cooks produced what we think of as comfort foods today. With a heritage of both land and sea housewives ingeniously used basic ingredients and simple methods to provide nutritious and tasty meals, day after day.  This rich culinary heritage is presented in the collection of recipes adapted to today’s cooking conventions, yet true to cultural history of Canada’s smallest province.

 The author’s love of good food and interest in the history of the home compelled her to faithfully gather these recipes and nostalgia.

 Favorite Recipes from Olde Prince Edward Island Kitchens

by Julie Watson

6x9 inches, Perfect Binding, 351 pages

ISBN 978-0-9865489-4-9

$20.00

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by Julie V Watson

"The most important thing you can do is experiment.  If you use your imagination, you can end up with one of the best recipes in your repertoire."

A collection of succulent seafood menus that take the mystery out of microwave cooking!  Well-known food editor Julie Watson presents more than 20 mouth-watering menus with entree, vegetable, and dessert recipes that will make you wonder how you ever lived without a microwave.  With instructions on how to sequence dishes, learn how easy it is to cook and entire meal in a matter of minutes.

Fish and vegetables head the list of foods that 'work' in the microwave, because they both benefit from moist cooking such as steaming or poaching.  

Seafood Menus for the Microwave: Full-Course Meals in a Flash

by Julie V. Watson

6" x 9", coil binding, 89 pages

ISBN 978-0-9687092-6-9

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