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Sewing: Week Forty One: Fall Flannel Blanket Cape
Fall flannel blanket cape is week forty one of the 52 weeks of sewing project. Although it’s snowy here in Northern Alberta, it’s still technically fall. Time to pull out the plaid and let the leaves turn colours. This project is easy and will take about 20 minutes max. Let’t get started! What You Need 1 double sheet or 2 yards of 50 inch wide fabric serger machine scissors matching thread iron ironing board fray check First, gather your fabric. I used a flannel plaid…
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Recipe: Warm Roasted Beet and Carrot Salad
Warm roasted beet and carrot salad is not only full of fall flavours, but a perfect side dish to turkey. Garden fresh vegetables are the best. My co-worker (who is awesome) shared his harvest with me. Whoo hoo! Let’s start on these wonderful ingredients. Ingredients 5 garden carrots 6 garden beets 1 cup of got feta cheese 4 tablespoons of olive oil 2 tablespoons of thyme First, gather all of your ingredients and set the oven to 400 on roast. Wash and cut the carrots…
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Recipe: Gluten Free Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake
Gluten free spiced pumpkin cheesecake is here just in time for Thanksgiving. Pumpkin spiced is all around, thus I’m in the fall spirit. We love cheesecake here in my house and this one is no exception. It’s so good and as a result, it doesn’t last long. This time I made it into bars, so the recipe is just halved; if you want to make a full cheesecake, then simply double the recipe and use a small springform pan. Let’s get baking! Ingredients 1 pack…
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Recipe: Beat the Monday Blues
Beat the Monday blues. Mondays are hard sometimes and we need to power through them. I work shift-work so it’s not every often that a traditional Monday is my Monday, in fact, today it’s my Friday. Things should be wonderful then, right? Well, I work within a traditional Monday-Friday organization and today feels like a real Monday. Meaning, a lot of work ahead (yet it’s a 3 day week for me). Time to get organized, ensure I have good food in my fridge and I’m…
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Sewing: Week Forty: Leather Trimmed Pencil Skirt
Leather trimmed pencil skirt for this fall inspired week forty of 52 weeks of sewing. This is a bit of a tricky tutorial mainly because it deals with leather. The thinner your leather the easier time you’ll have sewing; however, if you use thick leather the project will look stunning (it’ll just be hard to sew). Okay, let’s get started! What You Need 1 yard of stretch knit 2 pieces of leather (16.5 x 2.5 inches) waist measurement in 3 inch elastic serger machine matching…
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Recipe: Gluten Free Pecan Cookies
Gluten free pecan cookies on this fine Thursday afternoon. Who’s excited for Project Runway tonight? Me! Ian had to go in episode one – simply not adjusting his style or vision to the challenge was clearly a mistake. Last week, though, I was sad to see Linda go. I really liked her. Okay, enough about that – time for gluten free cookies. Let’s get baking. Ingredients 3/4 cup of melted butter 3 oz of cream cheese 1/2 cup of sugar 1 cup of packed medium…
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Recipe: Gluten Free Mexican Turkey Scotch Eggs
Gluten free Mexican turkey scotch eggs are today’s recipe here at 3ten. Did you watch the last season of MasterChef? Well, a few weeks back they had a picnic episode and they had to make scotch eggs. My husband was like ‘oh, those look so good!’ Challenge accepted. The next day I ran some errands and picked up some ground turkey and some gluten free rice ‘breadcrumbs’. My goal on this recipe is to put my own little twist on it. Let’s get cooking! Ingredients…
