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Recipe: Baked French Toast
Love french toast? Hate eating in shifts or eating a lukewarm breakfast? This recipe for baked french toast is here to save you! Try it…it’ll make a great father’s day treat! Ingredients 1 loaf of artisan french bread (about 450g) – next time I’ll use two…I explain below 8 eggs 500ml of half and half a cup of milk 2 tablespoons of sugar 1/4 cup of brown sugar a tablespoon of cinnamon 1 teaspoon of nutmeg and all spice a tablespoon of vanilla salt butter…
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Recipe: Quinoa Salad with Lemon Basil Dressing
Summer salads are here! This one packs a protein punch, too. Quinoa is delicious and fun to eat – I love the texture. Moreover, I cooked it super easily in my rice cooker! Total bonus. Okay, let’s get cooking this quinoa salad with lemon basil dressing. This salad keeps for about 5 days in the fridge, so make a lot and eat up. This recipe will give you about 12 servings – so half it if you like. Ingredients 2 cups of uncooked quinoa a…
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Sewing: Dr. Seuss Bath
Who doesn’t love Dr. Seuss?! He’s an all-time favourite of ours, even making his way into our wedding vows! About 3 weeks ago I was in the states and found my way into a JoAnne’s Fabrics. What a delight! Not as fabulous as the fashion district in Los Angeles, yet I found some wonderful things! This fabric caught my eye and I just had to get it. We have a few Dr. Seuss pictures up in our upstairs bathroom, so I thought I’d make some…
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Sewing: Vintage Floral Scarf
This vintage floral scarf was inspired by the fabric – I found it in the cutoff section (still at regular price) and there was just around 1 yard. So worth it. If you’re looking to re-create something similar, look for old bedsheets, table cloths or even a thrift store dress – the fabric will be well worn and perfect. What You Need floral fabric (about 1 yard) matching thread machine 20-24 inches of elastic First – I had to improvise and cut the fabric in…
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Recipe: Apple and Carrot Salad
When I was at the grocery store last week we picked up about 5 gala apples and a 2 pound bag of carrots – the intent was to use them in juices. That didn’t happen. Instead of letting them go bad, I checked out the pantry and found cranberries and pecans – perfect. Apple and carrot salad it is! Ingredients 4 gala apples about 1.5 pounds of carrots 1 1/2 cups of dried cranberries 1 cup of chopped pecans Dressing 1 cup of mayo 1/4…
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Recipe: Churro Pancakes
Cinnamon and sugar – yes, yes, yes. I love cinnamon and sugar. Today I was a bit lazy and although I felt like churro waffles, I didn’t feel like getting out the waffle iron. Silly, right? Then it came to me…churro pancakes! Yes! If you’ve tired my churro waffles then you’re going to love this recipe – if you haven’t…the only reason I can think of is because you don’t have a waffle maker…well then, problem solved. Cook up. Ingredients a cup of pancake mix…
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Recipe: Cookies and Cream Cookies 2
I found it!!! Oreo Cookies ‘n Cream Pudding Mix. Time to make these cookies and cream cookies 2 the right way. Back in November/December of 2013 I ran a series – 12 days of cookies, and these cookies n’ cream cookies were awesome. Only issue, I used vanilla pudding mix instead of Oreo pudding mix. It’s better with more Oreo! This time, I also used the triple double Oreo cookies – so good. Try it! Ingredients 1 cup of soft salted butter 1/2 cup of…
