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Continue reading →: Pizza Dough
This recipe was posted to go along with the Breakfast Pizza, but obviously it can be used as a base for any kind of pizza! Pizza Dough Originally this dough was for grilled barbequed pizza, but I’ve modified it to bake in the oven. This version is half of the…
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Continue reading →: Sunday Roast Chicken & GravyLast weekend, Nate bought me a car stereo as an early Valentine’s present, and he and Sam installed in on Sunday. I made a roast chicken dinner for them to show my appreciation – nothing like comfort food to say “thank you”! There are a bazillion different methods for roasting…
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Continue reading →: Second Saturday: Cider Tasting at Sea Cider Farm & CiderhouseSecond Saturday is a “club” consisting of my friends Lynette, Katheryn, Tangle, and I, where we go out somewhere for drinks and food every second Saturday of the month (hence the name). This weekend I went on a Second Saturday outing to a cider tasting at Sea Cider Farm &…
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Continue reading →: Macarons from Paris
My aunt recently spent a month in Paris (lucky!), and she sent me a box of culinary goodies, the contents of which included some crystallized sugar, sea salt “pearls” (which apparently form naturally into these large, pea-sized balls – I’m not too sure what to do with them, but…
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Continue reading →: Christmas Baking 2010 – Part IIAs promised is Part I, here is the recipe for Hazelnut Shortbread. As I said previously, this cookie has a beautiful crumbly texture, great hazelnut flavour, and is not overly sweet at all. It may have been my favorite cookie this year. Again, when baking shortbread, using real unsalted butter…
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Continue reading →: Wing Wednesday at Christie’s Carriage House Pub
This evening Sam, Nate, and I went to Christie’s Carriage House Pub for wings and beer. We were worried that it would be super busy because not only was it Wing Wednesday, there was also a Canucks game on, but we got there around 6 and there was plenty of…
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Continue reading →: “Healthy Cookies”I made some fantastic “Healthy Cookies” from 101 Cookbooks, a food blog that features whole, healthy foods, delicious recipes, and an emphasis on alternative sweeteners rather than refined sugar. This cookie recipe calls for coconut oil, which might send up red flags for some people because it is a saturated…
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Continue reading →: Christmas Baking 2010 – Part IFor me, the Christmas Season begins when I buy my first Christmas cookie magazine of the year. Usually it is Martha Stewart or Canadian Living, but whatever it is, it results in me hauling out my large stack of past years’ Christmas cookie magazines and creating lists of what I’m…
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Continue reading →: Pork PicadilloA few years ago my friend Lynette got me a year’s subscription to the Everyday Food magazine, published by Martha Stewart Living. I have a collection of about 20 issues now, and they all contain fantastically easy and delicious recipes that are great for a weekday meal (or a weekend…
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Continue reading →: Huevos RancherosLast night we had burritos with pork picadillo filling (recipe here), and this morning for breakfast I made huevos rancheros with the leftover beans and tortillas. This is a take on the version of huevos that is served at our favorite breakfast place, Spoons Diner. Nate orders this about 90%…
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