A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
This weekend I was able to convince the Hubby to take me to the bookstore and let me roam. Besides a weakness for scifi, I have one for cookbooks. This time it was Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey. I was flipping
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Tonight I stopped and picked up some wings from our favourite butcher. He has amazing marinades and isn’t afraid to use spice. So I picked up some Greek marinated chicken thighs (though I was sorely tempted by the Greek lamb
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I’m taking it a bit easier on gifts this year, due to still looking for work. So using what I have in the house, I’ve been making quite a few homemade gifts – of the culinary sort of course. Cookies,
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I use this multi-purpose dry rub on everything – from sprinkling on ribs and chicken, to seasoning a meatloaf and a roast. Note, that I don’t add sugar to the mix as I find its not necessary for 99% of
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I recently made almond bacon chicken and had made a quick spice mix for it. Some of the spice mix gets tossed with the slivered almonds. I had a bit left of the mix left over and hadn’t put it away yet,
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So it was just Thanksgiving this past weekend in Canada. I think turkey dinner is one of my favourite meals. Not only eating it, but making it. I have the turkey down pat and after getting the method of spatchcocking
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This marinara sauce is a super quick sauce to whip together and I used as a dip for pizza bites and the next day for chicken parmesan. It’s so fresh tasting and one of the Hubby’s favourites. Its quite like
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Just giving this post a bump as I just made it again for company. I served it with grilled bbq snapper and it turned out to be another hit. My sister liked it so much that we decided to make
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I love capers and while perusing one of my favourite food sites Food52, I came across a lemon caper dressing. I knew I had to make it, not only because of caper love, but because it gave me an excuse
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I did up a tiki themed bbq today, with things like al pastor pulled pork and punch with rum, pineapple vodka, and mango juice. I wanted something to use up the last of the pineapple so did up a quick
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