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Recipe: Roasted Butternut Squash Salad
Roasted butternut squash salad – basically this is roasted butternut squash stuffed with avocado, feta cheese, toasted almonds all in a winter vinegar dressing. So good. It doesn’t look that pretty, but it sure tastes great. This salad uses the same dressing for the quinoa fall salad I made a few weeks ago. It’s one of my new favourite dressings. Okay, time to roast up! Ingredients 1 medium butternut squash 2 tablespoons of olive oil 1 large avocado 1/2 a cup of feta cheese handful…
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Recipe: Penne Lasagna Bake
Penne lasagna bake – a slight take on my lazy lasagna from a couple of years ago. This recipe manifested out of my craving for lasagna and my lack of lasagna noodles. This is an easy week night dinner – let’s get started! Ingredients large box of penne pasta (I actually used 2 small boxes) bunch of spinach large white onion 2 tablespoons of olive oil 1 jar of your favourite pasta sauce 200g of mozzarella cheese 3 oz of cream cheese 750g of cottage…
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Recipe: Chewy Rainbow Cookies
Chewy rainbow cookies for the holidays? Yes. I’m not a big fan of green and red together, those colours kind of clash, right? They look far better when there is some silver or white to break up the contrast. Anyway, my point is that if you don’t want to use rainbow colours then you could use green, red and white to make them more holiday like. Okay, let’s bake up! Ingredients 2 cups of cake flour 1 teaspoon of baking soda 2 teaspoon of corn…
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Recipe: Skor Butter Cookies
Skor butter cookies are so good. And this recipe makes more than 4 dozen! Total holiday score. I love butter cookies and it’s hard for me not to simply devour them all, although being a recent celiac, it’s a bit easier to stay away now. Okay, let’s get baking! Ingredients 2 sticks of salted butter 1 cup of white sugar 2 teaspoons of vanilla 1 egg 2 1/2 cups of cake flour 1 heaping cup of skor bits First up, gather all of your ingredients…
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Recipe: Dark Chocolate Butter Cookie
Dark chocolate butter cookies – it’s December and it’s time for holiday cookies! A couple of years ago I did the twelve days of cookies and well that was wonderful, there is no way I have time nor the ability to eat so many cookies this year. So, I’m sharing with you 3 great recipes this week for non-traditional holiday cookies. Today, we’re on the dark side of things with this coco-butter inspired cookie. Let’s get baking. Ingredients 1 cup of room temperature salted butter…
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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…
