A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
Truth be told, both the Hubby and I didn’t start to like Nanaimo Bars until just a few years ago and I’ve never made them before. But I saw this newspaper clipping for the original Nanaimo Bars recipe and decided
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I had a bunch of blueberries to use up in my freezer and was seeing company today, so decided a blueberry pie was in order. I’ve made berry cream pies before, but not a traditional blueberry pie. The secret to
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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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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 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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I’m trying to use up the ingredients that have been sitting in the pantry for awhile. That included a package of butterscotch chips. I was wondering what I could make with ingredients on hand and was staring at the package
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These peanut butter squares are the Hubby’s favorite square. They are smooth and creamy and have become one of my favorites too. The Rocky Road version is nothing to sneeze at either. These squares are not only super yummy, but
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I had a sister-in-law who used to bring homemade tiger butter bark to Christmas functions and both the Hubby and I loved it. As I’ve been on a peanut butter kick lately, Hubby reminded me of how good it was,
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