A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
I saw a recipe for mushroom sauce made with red wine in the The New Professional Chef: Culinary Institute of America cookbook, and wanted to make some for the london broil I was cooking. The sauces in the cookbook can be quite
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The Hubby and I hit the States last Friday and stopped in at one of our favourite grocery stores. They not only seem to have great deals on meat, but they carry bottles of cold brew coffee that I love. The
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When it hits the summer highs and becomes like a broiler outside, the last thing I want to do is boot up an oven or eat anything heavy. I want something that is fresh, crispy, and quick. My general slaw
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I came across the recipe for a Broken Vanilla in the latest edition of BC Liquor Stores Taste, and even though it’s made with gin (not a fan), it looked so refreshing I wanted to give it a try. I’m glad
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I love salisbury steak. It’s so old school and reminds me of cheap, yet delicious, diner meals or tv dinners. Walking through the grocery store, I noticed some nice plump white mushrooms and decided to whip up a batch. Of
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This really isn’t a recipe, in the true sense, just a dish kicked up a notch. The inspiration for this came when I was watching one of Nigella Lawson’s shows. She made the cottage cheese and put it on some
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I came up with a recipe for simple bbq’d yellow curry chicken when I had fresh tumeric and ginger to use up. I find that fresh tumeric not only adds vibrant colour to a dish, it adds a wonderful flavour.
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A coworker had a birthday last week and I decided to bring in cupcakes. I knew she loved chocolate and coffee so decided to combine the two into a chocolate espresso cupcakes, filling it with homemade dulce de leche. I
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The original recipe for this pie was a rhubarb cream pie of my mother-in-laws. Rhubarb or strawberry rhubarb were the only flavours she made. She thought I was totally thinking outside the box and it was crazy wild when I
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I watched Nigella Lawson’s latest show, At My Table, and in her first episode she made these devine looking Turkish eggs. I couldn’t quite imagine how yogurt would pair with the eggs, but I was willing to give it a try
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