I confirmed what I had always believed about myself this past month. I am a stress eater. I threw caution into the wind and settled into a December filled with chips, doughnuts and other fried foods. Let’s not forget the countless desserts and copious amounts of bread that I ate either.
But with 2012 behind me and 2013 and an unacceptable scale reading facing me in the mornings, I am getting back on track with more reasonable food choices. So, I thought that the first thing I would share with you is my new potato chip substitute, Kale Chips.
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Tags: blog, cooking, food, homemade, Paleo, party, vegetable, week-night
The weekend of our move is finally here! I have been talking about it for so long that you may have thought that it had already happened.
When I was starting to pack up our pantry, I noticed that the carton of molasses was almost empty. To me it seemed like it wasn’t worth packing away in a box, but it was the perfect opportunity to look for a recipe to use the molasses I had left.
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Tags: bake sale, baking, blog, breakfast, chocolate, food, homemade, party, pot luck, recipe
Well, here is another post dedicated to the art of baking. I am very aware that my last bunch of posts have been about baking, but with Christmas around the corner (only 22 more sleeps!) baking seems to be what is in my heart and mind to do.
When the desire to bake strikes you, there is no sense in fighting it, you might as well give in and start pulling out flour and sugar from your pantry.
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Tags: bake sale, baking, blog, breakfast, cooking, dates, family, food, homemade, party, pot luck, recipe, weekend
This blog post could easily be only four words: “These cookies are amazing!” 🙂
Having only access to two cookbooks is really giving me a chance to scour through them to find new and interesting recipes. This experience has really opened up my eyes to the fact that I likely don’t give my current cookbook collection a chance, I look through and if I am not immediately impressed by a photo or a concept, I flip the page. But with only two books available to me (since the rest have been packed), I have to actually read the recipes to determine if the flavour combinations are something that I want to try. I can’t remember the last time that a month’s worth of my baking has all come from the same cookbook.
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Drum Roll Please! Finally here it is my tried and true pumpkin soup recipe. Don’t let the list of ingredients or the number of steps intimidate you, this is worth every second of prep.
This recipe was published in October 2001, in one of the first Martha Stewart Living magazines that I had purchased. This particular issue had an entire section on pumpkin foods. The more I read about the different things you could do with pumpkin, the more I wanted to try this versatile food.
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Jamie’s mom, Laura, recently gave me a few cookbooks (I know, like I need more cookbooks!). Anyway, these were the kind that you get from your local church or Women’s Auxiliary Club. What I love about these types of cookbooks, is that the recipes are always tried and true, and it is all about sharing a passion of cooking with other people who are just as passionate.
While I was flipping through this small spiral bound book, a recipe jumped off the page at me – Muffins that Taste like Doughnuts! What?!? I knew immediately that I had to make this recipe. 🙂
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Tags: bake sale, baking, blog, cinnamon, cooking, donut, doughnut, family, food, homemade, party, pot luck, recipe
These past few weeks, I have found myself craving oatmeal raisin cookies. It must be a signal that my body wants to go into hibernation mode and stock up on hearty foods (I said hearty, not necessarily healthy! 😉 ) It is a common site for my 3pm coffee break to see me happily eating an oatmeal raisin cookie with my delicious concoction of half coffee/half hot chocolate with double milk.
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I had a bag of carrots in the fridge that I was supposed to use to make a soup, but I hadn’t gotten around to it yet. I am normally not a big fan of carrots, unless I am using them to dip into homemade hummus. Hmmmm, dipping carrots into hummus, I wonder if I can make carrots into a dip? Of course I can! Anything is possible, especially when you have a large collection of cooking magazines to browse through 🙂
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Tags: blogging, carrots, curry, food, homemade, party, pot luck, recipe, vegetable
I am back with yet another Hummus recipe 🙂 I still can’t believe that I used to buy this pre-made. It is so easy to make yourself. I must have thrown hundreds of dollars away on prepared product. Yikes!
I was in the grocery store, when I saw a jar of oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes. The idea struck me to make this into a delicious hummus, and to incorporate some of the oil from the jar of tomatoes into the mix.
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Tags: food, homemade, party, pot luck, recipe, tomatoes, writing
I just love it when summer berries are in season. There is nothing better than going to the Farmers Market and seeing baskets of bright, colourful berries. Since this is the berry* last weekend of summer, I thought I would share with you the ultimate summer berry crumble. *I know – that was pretty bad, wasn’t it?!? 🙂
I usually make an apple crumble (or Apple Betty as my Grandma used to call it). It is a very satisfying fall harvest dessert. Fresh apples topped with a delicious topping of rolled oats, cinnamon and brown sugar. Yummy! Earlier this year, we were at our friends Kim and Ryan’s for dinner, and Kim made a gorgeous Triple Berry Crumble with blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. I wanted to attempt to make something similar, so off to my cookbook cupboard I went!
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Tags: baking, blogging, blueberries, cooking, family, food, homemade, party, pot luck, raspberries, recipe
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