My Favorite Recipes, with a Hint of Giggle

Some recipes feed the body. Others carry the memories of an entire family.

All My Favorite Recipes, With a Hint of Giggle began with a simple desire: to gather the recipes Dr. Constance Santego loved into one book—something that could be preserved, shared, and replaced no matter what happened. That desire became especially meaningful while her family was once again facing the threat of a British Columbia forest fire.

The result is part cookbook, part family history, and part culinary time capsule.

Inside are recipes passed down from Gran and Grandma, Mom and Mother-in-Law, daughters, sons, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, and Connie herself. From Gran’s homemade bread and Crazy Chocolate Cake to cabbage rolls, perogies, borscht, pizza, soups, seafood, casseroles, salads, pancakes, desserts and family favourites, these are dishes connected to real people and real memories.

And because cooking should be fun, there’s a hint of giggle sprinkled throughout the pages, with food jokes and playful touches appearing alongside the recipes. The book also includes practical kitchen references such as measurement conversions, abbreviations, cooking temperatures, meat cooking times, and ingredient alternatives.

At its heart, however, this book is about family. Dr. Santego describes food as the centre of family gatherings and a language of love passed across generations.

Dedicated to her children and grandbabies, All My Favorite Recipes, With a Hint of Giggle is a celebration of the people who gather around our tables, the dishes we never want to forget, and the stories that make a recipe worth passing on.

Cook the recipes. Share the stories. Have a giggle. And pass a little family magic on to the next generation.