A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
I recently attended a bread making class (sourdough), and wanted to continue making a variety of loaves. I pulled out the ole bread machine and then remembered that I had this recipe for no knead bread. Sourdough bread is basically
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I went on a bit of cooking and baking bender this weekend. I start pulling out cookbooks and get in a mood where I want to try everything. Today’s experiment was a chocolate pecan pie from The Ghiradelli Chocolate Cookbook.
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Both the Hubby and I love sushi, but it can get expensive. I started dabbling with some simple kappa maki and musubi. I realized that with a few tricks, it wasn’t that hard to make. I tend to like the
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There is a Chinese restaurant nearby that has amazing spicy dumpling sauce. This is my version and I have to say, that it is extremely yummy and addictive! I make a batch of it and it goes on almost everything.
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Rumballs are a Christmas staple in my house. Easy to make, delectable, and always a hit for giving away as presents or at Christmas parties. The chocolate ones are actually a family recipe of a friend. Our friends had ladies
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This recipe for pork side ribs is very similar to my Pork Baby Back Ribs Recipe, where the ribs are braised in BBQ sauce. I found this marinade recipe that was great for tenderizing the side ribs, which needed just
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This recipe for baked beans is one of the Hubby’s favorites and has converted vegetarians. And its perfect for when you need a large pot for a potluck as it makes a very big batch. The key to the recipe
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This lemonbar cupcake was made as a farewell cupcake to my sisters, when I left the province and moved to the coast. I tried to get a nice almond buttery cupcake on the bottom, filled with the tasty lemon curd,
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These Toffee Apple Cinnamon Buns are a combo of Jamie Oliver’s Toffee Apple Buns and my mother-in-law’s cinnamon buns. I first saw Jamie Oliver making his toffee apple buns, which looked absolutely delicious, and made them as directed. I have
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Maple Guinness Bacon Cupcakes are my contribution to the bacon craze. Its a salty and sweet combination with a light bacon-flavored buttercream and the bacon bits adding texture to the batter. The Guinness adds a rich deep flavor, offsetting the
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