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Recipe: Mexican Shakshouka
It’s time for breakfast – this traditional African dish is given a Mexican twist. Time for Mexican shakshouka. You can make the base (all but the eggs) ahead of time if you wish, that way you just have assembly and baking when your guests arrive. Let’s get cooking. Ingredients 2 off the vine tomatoes 1 teaspoon of your favourite chili flakes 3 tablespoons of grape seed oil 2 teaspoons of chopped garlic half a red onion 1 jalapeño 19 oz can of black beans 1/3…
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Recipe: Salsa Verde
Time to make this salsa verde. On Valentine’s Day we hit up a local Mexican restaurant, Huma, and it’s was so good. If you’re in Edmonton, check it out. Right around the corner is an adorable Mexican convinece store – tomatillos, yes! Okay, let’s get to it. Ingredients 3 tomatillos 2 1/2 jalapeños small white onion 1/2 cup cilantro 3 dashes of lime juice, to taste kosher salt to taste First, I roast the tomatillos, jalapeños and the onion. You can put them in your…
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Recipe: Gluten Free Cinnamon Rolls
It’s Saturday and time for a treat. These gluten free cinnamon rolls are such a great weekend eat – you can eat them for breakfast, or eat them for dinner, like we just did. That’s right, these two grown adults had cinnamon rolls for dinner. Shhh…don’t tell our moms! This recipe is quick and easy – best part is, it uses Bob’s Red Mill Pizza Crust dough – I use this pack to make the best pizza and now to make the best cinnamon rolls,…
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Recipe: Mexican Shepherd’s Pie
I love mashed potatoes and my Nana used to make the best ones. On Tuesday I was craving them, but in the mood for some Mexican spices. So, I whipped up this Mexican shepherd’s pie and it was delicious. Quick and easy to make on a week night and it makes left overs, too! Let’s get cooking. Ingredients 2 large chicken breasts 1 sweet potato 4 small potatoes 1/2 cup of salted butter 1 red onion can of corn 1 cup of edamame tablespoon of…
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Project: Tipsy the Boler
Tipsy the Boler is finding her small little space in the wide open internet. As I’m sure many of you know we’ve been running a Tumblr page for all things Boler for a little over 3 years. Well, now we’re branching out. In January we opened an Instagram account for Tipsy as a way to share content, help other Boler lovers with their projects, and to engage the community. Now, today actually, we just started to share on a dedicated Facebook page to Tipsy. So…
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Recipe: Triple Chocolate Mint Cookies
Triple chocolate mint cookies time! Last year I made these in jar form for some of my delightful co-workers. A couple of weeks ago one of them (she’s awesome and so hard working, I might add) asked for the recipe. Totally expecting it to be on the blog, I searched. What? Not there? How did I miss that? So, here I am, more than 14 months later, sharing this sweet and minty recipe. Let’s bake up! Ingredients box of devils food cake 1 cup of…
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Recipe: Chocolate Tahini Brownies
Time for more sweets. These chocolate tahini brownies were in the latest edition of Bon Appetit and they are good. Oh, and gluten free. I modified the original recipe from Bon Appetit for two reasons – I wanted a richer chocolate flavour and I didn’t have any brown sugar in my pantry. This recipe is delicious and tasty. Worth trying. Let’s bake up! Ingredients 3 tablespoons of cornstarch 2 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder 2 oz each of semi sweet, unsweetened and dark chocolate 3…
