A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
Chingri malai is an Indian shrimp curry, and I was inspired to make it from an episode of Father Brown. I am working my way through the whole series, and one of the recent episodes I watched featured a cookbook
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I try to make something “Irish” for each St. Patrick’s Day, and this year, I made an Irish coddle. It’s basically a stew, though unlike traditional Irish stew with meat, potatoes, and a gravy broth, coddle has barley and sausages.
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Carbonara is one of the Hubby’s favourite pasta dishes! This was actually the first time I made carbonara from scratch (traditional recipe with no cream), and it turned out perfectly. I found the recipe on RecipeTin Eats and halved it
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I had a vegetarian coming to my Christmas dinner this year and wanted to make a 3-bean salad as a more filling dish for them. It worked out perfectly as almost everyone at the table loved the 3-bean salad too!
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For a Christmas dinner, I made a whiskey-glazed ham with scalloped potatoes (with creamed corn and a three-bean salad). I was looking for a saucy and creamy recipe, and this one from Spend with Pennies was perfect (with only a few small
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I never really was a fan of glazed ham (or ham in general), but my tastes have changed over the years and I quite love a good glazed ham now! When looking for a ham that would be big enough
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I never thought I’d post this recipe as its such a staple in Alberta. What I didn’t realize is that its (apparently) an Alberta thing! I was talking to some coworkers yesterday and puffed wheat squares were mentioned and they
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I wanted to make something besides the usual pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving and saw a recipe for pumpkin cheesecake in a Better Homes & Gardens Pumpkin Recipes magazine. When I was reading the recipe, I was a little skeptical on
Read moreWhen I call this Werther’s Caramel Sauce I’m not exaggerating. This really tastes like a creamy smooth Werther’s caramel! Very easy to make and great drizzled on anything, even into coffee!
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I found this recipe for apple butter when I had a plethora of apples to use up, 2 bags, plus a few found in the crisper drawer, and some on the trees that needed to be picked. I was going
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