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Recipe: Summer Skewers
Summer is here and what better way to welcome company or add some flare to a neighbourhood BBQ than with some summer skewers. These are easy and delicious…plus, you can make them ahead of time – bonus! Ingredients 1/4 of a watermelon 300g of goat feta 12-16 mint leaves 1/2 a cantaloupe 300g of bocconcini 12-16 basil leaves 1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar 1/4 cup of olive oil First – you need to cut your watermelon and cantaloupe into 1 inch squares. You can use…
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Recipe: Canada Day Dipped Wafers
Dipped Wafers…again, I know. They are just too good to not make a few times a year, at least. Moreover, I just got my great-grandmother’s double boiler. It’s adorable…and I needed a reason to use it! Time for Canada day dipped wafers. Ingredients vanilla wafers (or any flavour, really) white chocolate (or dark, would work, too) sprinkles (you need these) Get all of your ingredients together – for this special celebration we’ve got white chocolate and red sprinkles – proud to be Canadian! You probably…
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Recipe: Canada Day Cupcakes
It’s Canada Day in 5 days – time to get your pride on! Canada day cupcakes, here we come. This treat is quick and easy…and they celebrate all that is wonderful about calling this red and white country home. Ingredients box of devil’s food cake red velvet emulsion ingredients to make boxed cake icing red sprinkles white mini cupcake liners mini cupcake pan Gather all of your ingredients and mix up the came mix box – add in the red velvet emulsion (I got mine at…
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Recipe: Rice Pasta with Tomato and Garlic Sauce
This dish seems too simply and the kind of thing you’d make when you’re too lazy to go to the grocery store, however, it’s so good great. I first made this dish after my roommate in university made it – she got it from her boy friend’s mom. It’s simply and the kind of think you can keep your pantry stocked with. Let’s get cooking rice pasta with tomato and garlic sauce. Ingredients 1 bag of penne (I used rice pasta, thus it’s gluten free)…
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Recipe: Cookies ‘n Cream Marshmallow Squares
This recipe has 4 ingredients and it makes a chewy summer treat…and you don’t even have to turn on your oven! Bonus. It’s time for cookies ‘n cream marshmallow squares. Ingredients 15 Oreo cookies 2.5 cups of mini-marshmallows 1/2 a stick of butter 1 teaspoon of vanilla (optional) First – crush your Oreo cookies. I made this recipe with regular Oreo cookies and then with golden Oreo cookies. Both were great! Now, time for the marshmallow puff. Put your marshmallows in a microwaveable bowl and…
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Recipe: Nutella no-bake Cheesecake
Love Nutella? Do I always start a Nutella recipe with the same question…haha, I think so. Check out Nutella stuffed cupcakes to see. Today is a great day – why, you ask? In the summer our trees on our property fill out and make getting an internet signal difficult…and it it’ll take 9 hours to upload a photo if the service isn’t interrupted. On Wednesday we transferred to a new system – satellite internet – it’s a dream. 12 photos uploaded in less than 7…
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Recipe: Mexican Lasagna
I love Mexican food – it’s probably my favourite cuisine…and since I don’t live in Texas anymore, it’s a little more difficult to find great authentic flavours here in Northern Alberta. This dish, however, packs a punch of Mexican flavour and I always go back for seconds! Let’s get cooking this Mexican lasagna. This is an dish you can make a day or two ahead and then cook up on a busy night – it’ll feed 6-8 people (yet the leftovers are good…so if you…