A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
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 the Friend’s Christmas Dinner this year (2024), 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
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The Hubby and I love aloo gobi! We both find that vegetarian Indian (south, north, all of it!) dishes always have so much flavour!
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The Hubby loves caramel popcorn and I’m quite the fan myself. (I usually like a good salted buttery popcorn instead.) We were at the farmers market today and I pointed out the bags of caramel popcorn to him. He commented
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Za’atar Man’ouche (Lebanese breakfast pita) is another recipe from the cookbook Saffron in the Souks. It’s ridiculously easy to make and tastes delicious. Another keeper from this cookbook and I can’t sing its praises enough. The za’atar man’ouche recipe in
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I picked up Gennaro’s Pasta Perfecto! cookbook and decided to try my hand at homemade pasta. It turns out that homemade pasta is not that difficult to make! I picked up a cheap pasta roller and set out to make
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I wanted to make some scalloped potatoes, old school style, but of course, kicked up a notch. I looked up Julia Child’s recipe, but it looked to be a bit of fuss to make and ended up settling on scalloped
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Nothing beats a big bowl of fresh homemade roasted vegetable salsa! This has a nice fresh flavor and can be made as hot as you want by using more or fewer jalapenos. The Hubby and I both prefer a less
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I bought a couple bags of coffee flour awhile ago and finally decided to make something with it. I decided on pancakes with coffee flour, due to the fruity and nutty flavor of the flour. Coffee flour does not taste
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I love au gratin potatoes, but with a lactose intolerance I can’t take the easy way out and buy the boxed version. Which I fully admit is a guilty pleasure, or rather, was. These au gratin potatoes are cheesy, saucy,
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