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Recipe: Mini Cheesecake
Mini cheesecake is a delightful way to end your Sunday night dinner with family. They are easy to make and anything individual is just so much fun! Oh, and I make these gluten free, too! Bonus. Let’s get started. Ingredients 8oz cream cheese 1/4 cup of sugar 1 teaspoon of vanilla an egg 1/2 a cup plus 2 tablespoons of gluten free graham cracker crumbs 2 tablespoons of sugar 1 1/2 tablespoons of butter 3/4 cup of berries (blue berries, black berries and raspberries) 2…
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Recipe: Buffalo Chicken Pizza
Buffalo chicken pizza – it’s gluten free and full of spicy. It’s like eating a chicken wing, but better, because it’s pizza!!! This is perfect for Sunday football games, or watching MasterChef Junior. Man, those kids are quite the cooks, right? We’re in a bit of a competition with my brother and his wife for MasterChef Junior. We watched the first two episodes and used those as recruiting – then we each drafted a team of 10. Points are given to winners, and runners up…
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Recipe: Broccoli and Grape Salad
Broccoli and grape salad – full of texture and it fills you up, too. Oh, and it tastes pretty good! This salad is a great addition to your Thanksgiving meal coming up this Thursday (if you’re American) or, if you Canadian, then it makes a great hearty lunch in mid November. The broccoli holds up nicely to the dressing and stays crispy. Let’s get started. Ingredients 4 heads of broccoli (and the stems) cucumber 1 cup of grapes small onion 1/2 cup of dried cranberries…
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Recipe: Banana Oat Muffins
Banana oat muffins – they are gluten and sugar free. Healthy and a tab bit sweet. These are easy to make and good for a warm Saturday morning treat or even for a Monday drive to work. Let’s bake up! Ingredients 1/4 cup of natural peanut butter 2 ripe bananas 1 egg 2 tablespoons of dark agave syrup 3/4 cup of quick oats 2 tablespoons of flax seeds 1 teaspoon of vanilla 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon and baking soda 2 tablespoons of butter First –…
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Recipe: Winter Eats
It’s starting to get quite cold out and the days are getting darker and darker. Thus, time to share some of my favourite winter eats! On Sunday when I was at work, it was around 3:45 in the afternoon and it totally felt like it was 9pm. Outside it was hazy and the wind was chilly. Time to eat some lentil chili or put on a pot of apple cider. Winter Eats For main course, two of my favourites – lamb steak and beef short…
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Recipe: Spicy Whole Turkey
Spicy whole turkey for Thanksgiving! Who’s in? I am! This recipe is quite easy and gives your whole turkey a bit of kick this November. When I used to teach in Dallas, Texas, Thanksgiving was amazing – why? Because we got a whole week off! That’s how a worn out teacher thinks…time to catch up on laundry, cleaning the house, grading papers, holiday shopping, the 1343537 emails in my work inbox. The week was jam packed and I was excited to get up because I…
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Photos: Lexi Girl
This is Lexi Girl! It’s Friday and I wanted to share some adorable photos! Lexis is a terrier mix and she belongs to friends of ours – we watched her for 10 special days while they hit the road for Vancouver and these are some of my favourite shots I got on my iPhone. Not the greatest quality, yet she’s cute nonetheless. First off, where does the name ‘Lexi Girl’ come from? Well, it just sort of started as something I said. When my dogs,…
