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Recipe: Cinnamon Rolls
What’s for breakfast this Sunday morning? How about a treat? Cinnamon rolls it is! Yummy in my tummy. Yeast, of course, is a vital ingredient in this recipe! Here’s what else you’ll need: Ingredients 1 cup milk 4.5 tablespoons of butter 3 1/2 cups of flour 1 packet of activated yeast 1/4 cup white sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 large egg 1 cup brown raw sugar 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon 3/4 cup of butter…I know, more butter. pinch of salt First – warm the…
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Recipe: Monster Cupcakes
Monster Cupcakes with purple vanilla buttercream. Yummy and just in time for Halloween. Ingredients Make your favourite white cake recipe (or use a box if you wish) and add 4 drops of deep green food colouring…mosterlicious! These green bat cupcake liners are from Bulk Barn – and so are the monster sprinkles. Perfect for monster cupcakes. I love the purple. Fill your liners to the top…makes for big cupcakes! Time to make the icing! Vanilla Buttercream 1 cup butter (soft) 3 cups icing sugar 1…
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Recipe: Wedge Salad
Wedge Salad – a steakhouse classic! The first time I ever came across the wedge salad was when my husband and I were living in Dallas, Texas. Steakhouse capital of the world! This salad is simple, fresh, and totally delicious. Ingredients Head of lettuce – cut in 4 3 tomatoes – seeded and diced Blue cheese – crumbled Turkey bacon – diced Blue cheese dressing – and lots of it! First – get your tomatoes ready. Now – get your bacon in the pan. Since…
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Yellow and Green Juice
Juice, again! The juicer is so easy to use…and so good for you! We were in the city a few days ago and I stopped by Planet Organic to grab some wheatgrass – our local grocery store doesn’t sell it. Boo! Okay, let’s get started on this yellow and green juice. Ingredients pineapple lemon yellow beets wheat grass broccolini I also picked up some yellow beets (which caused some controversy, coincidently, on Top Chef this past Wednesday – “who stole my yellow beets!!”)…and I grabbed…
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Recipe: Apple Cider
Want the house to smell like fall? Don’t want to spend 8.99$ on mulling spice? Try this! Ingredients One jar of apple cider (about 1.99$ – you would need this with the mulling spice, too). 1 tablespoon of each of the following : cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice. Mix together and put on the stove around medium heat. Time to spice things up. Most of the time you already have the ingredients above – and if you don’t, they sell huge bags like the…
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Recipe: Pumpkin Parfait
Tired of the same old pumpkin pie for fall dessert? Try pumpkin parfait instead! I made this recipe since I love pumpkin pie and well, my husband loves chocolate…so I thought of this fun way to eat it all in one! Start with some empty, yet tall glasses and oreos! Crush up the oreos and put in the bottom – one of my cups has crushed graham crackers (I’m not a big chocolate person). Next layer is the pumpkin pie mix. When I was making…
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Recipe: Dog Treats
Dog treats are the best – these ones are messy to make, but super fun to watch your puppy eat. Why dog treats? Well, it was Bella’s birthday on the weekend – she’s 9! Ingredients 1/2 cup of oats 2 spoonfuls of almond butter 1 teaspoon of honey Makes 4 clusters Mix it all together and then roll out. These adorable paper cupcake liners and fun toppers are from my husband’s mom – she thought they were cute and, since I love to make cupcakes,…
