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I was looking for low-carb recipes for using up ground beef and came across one for low carb general tso meatballs. It seemed rather bland and thought they need quite a bit of , and went in search of a
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I found a new Mediterranean grocer, which not only provided me with an awesome new brand of Turkish coffee, olives, and feta, but a bunch of spices. This included a couple new ones for me: zaatar and sabzi ash. I
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I had taken a couple steaks out of the freezer for supper, but wasn’t quite sure what to do with them (besides the usual salt and throw on the BBQ). I knew I had some cabbage I needed to use
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I had this recipe on my old food blog (Goodgrub) and decided to dig it up as I was craving a comfort food, and chicken stew and dumplings fit the bill! It’s very easy to make as you can throw
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Yesterday we got the first big snowfall we’ve had all winter. We’ve had the odd flurries, but the forecast was for 4 to 8 inches. It started at 10:00am and by noon there was already 3 inches on the ground.
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Last night I held a post-Christmas dinner, instead of the usual turkey, I wanted to do a beef roast. I would have liked to grab a prime rib, but couldn’t find any, so I did a striploin roast with a
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Clafoutis is basically a frittata or omelette, a big fluffy frittata packed with all sorts of goodies. As with omelette’s, anything goes. Fill with all veggies or seafood, your favourite brie or some jalapeno’s. Clafoutis makes a great breakfast or
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Last night I was going to make a simple dish of pork chops in wine, from a Greek cookbook I have. Then I ended up chatting with a girlfriend who wanted to make coq au vin and I ended up
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I’m not a fan of pork. I’m talking about “pork” pork, vs. bacon here. I don’t really like pork roasts, loin, or chops. But to appease the Hubby, who is a fan, we bought a sack of pork chops from Costco
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So this year for my Thanksgiving dinner, I decorated the table with white mini pumpkins (5-6″ size). I then used them for decorating the doorway at Halloween. They were super cute, but were destined for the garbage. So a quick
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