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Recipe: Red Lentil Chili 2.0
This red lentil chili is both gluten free and vegan. A few weeks ago I was at work and an email came across my desk – Chili Cook Off! Talk about fun, right? Well, I decided to take the Lentil Chili recipe I shared a few years ago and jazz it up. This new 2.0 recipe has charred corn and toasted spices. Let’s get cooking. Ingredients 2 tablespoons of grapeseed oil 3 peppers, 1 yellow and 2 red 5 jalapeños large red onion 1 tablespoon…
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Recipe: Canadian Thanksgiving 2018
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving 2018! It’s time to cook up some great recipes and hang out with family. Check out these recipes to make your holiday tasty. If you’re like me, you like Thanksgiving recipes that don’t take all day to cook since you’d rather be just lounging around enjoying the day. Don’t get me wrong, I love being in the kitchen, it’s just not my favourite thing when I’m told to do so by a certain holiday. So, if we have that in common, then…
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Recipe: Garlic Herb Boursin Mashed Potatoes
Garlic herb Boursin mashed potatoes – yes, please! I’m a cheese and potato lover. Honestly, sometimes when Bryce works nights I’ll have potatoes for dinner. Seems strange, I know – yet it’s just flat out the best comfort food. These potatoes are rich and creamy, the kind you have for Thanksgiving when you want to amp up your standard mashed potatoes. Okay, let’s get cooking! Ingredients 2 pounds of Yukon potatoes 1/2 a pack each of Bourisn garlic and shallot 4 oz of cream cheese…
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Recipe: Warm Autumn Salad
Warm salad with roasted Brussel sprouts and butternut squash – the perfect autumn salad. It’s quick and easy – one pan and done. Let’s get cooking. Ingredients 4 cups of butternut squash 5 cups of Brussel spouts 1 red onion 1/4 cup of canola oil 3 tablespoons of agave 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 1 cup of cranberries 1/2 cup of pecans salt to taste First, set your oven to 425 on roast. Then, line a pan with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Peel the…
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Recipe: Gluten Free Apple Pie
Gluten free apple pie – just in time for the holidays. Thanksgiving, here we come! Do you remember the caramel chocolate tart I made for Christmas last year? Well, this recipe uses the same gf crust. Let’s get baking! Ingredients Curst 2 cups plus 2-4 tablespoons of gluten free flour (with xanthan gum) 9 tablespoons of salted butter – frozen 1 egg 8-12 tablespoons of ice water Filling 5-6 apples (I used 3 different types) 1 tablespoon of GF flour (I used tapioca) 1/4 cup…
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Travel: Banff National Park
Banff National Park is beautiful. It’s not very far from our house at just under 4 hours which makes for a nice half day drive. Here we are, heading down the driveway – all packed up in Scobby Doo the Boler (yes, he needs some work!). Banff National Park Okay – here’s the best part – we got a campsite right on the water. Yes! At Two Jack Lake they have a handful of sites that are lake side. Site 44, our site, is the…
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Travel: Mountain UTVing Calgary
Mountain UTVing in Calgary What? Yes! I know it’s a bit odd, or perhaps out of character for us, yet this is what we did on Tuesday, September 4. For Bryce’s birthday I put together a little scavenger hunt and the end prize was a day of UTVing in Ghost (a public land use area outside of Calgary). First – it took me about 6 hours of research to find a place to rent a decent UTV, find an area where we could legally ride,…
