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Recipe: Canadian Thanksgiving 2025
Canadian Thanksgiving 2025 – yes! It’s my favourite holiday of the year, time for potatoes, fall colours, and quality time with family. What else could you want? How about an extra day to sleep in!? I know someone who could use it. Haha. Okay, let’s check out what’s for dinner this Thanksgiving. Canadian Thanksgiving 2025 For this holiday we got a duck and put it on the BBQ, rotisserie style! Since it’s the two of us, we usually opt for a vegetable or a salad,…
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Recipe: BBQ Rotisserie Duck
BBQ rotisserie duck – that’s right! We cooked duck on our BBQ. If you don’t have a rotisserie, I highly suggest you get one. We love ours and chicken is our favourite thing to cook on the rotisserie. I haven’t tried anything other than poultry yet, but some sort of stuffed squash is on my list (cool, eh?!). Okay, first up, buy a quality duck and ensure you season it well before racking up. Oh, and don’t forget to truss it! Ingredients Once your duck…
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Recipe: Apple Cranberry Pecan Salad
Apple cranberry pecan salad – this is such a winner for fall! Plus, it’s hearty to hold over for lunches. With fried bacon (turkey for us!), feta cheese, and cranberries, this salad packs in flavour and texture. Okay, let’s get chopping! Ingredients Honey Dijon Dressing First up, wash all of your fruits and vegetables. Then, chop up the bacon and cook it up. If I’m cooking turkey bacon, I’ll cut it first then cook it. If it’s regular pork bacon, you might want to cook…
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Recipe: Brown Butter Mashed Potatoes
Brown butter mashed potatoes. Yes! Okay, I know I’ve made mashed potatoes a few different ways, yet they’re so comforting. These brown butter ones are rich with an extra layer of depth. I didn’t work the brown butter in to the whole batch, since I was afraid the colour might not be too appealing. As such, I stuck with the traditional recipe and added the brown butter on top. Okay, let’s get cooking! Ingredients I didn’t rice my potatoes on this batch, yet I usually…
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Recipe: American Thanksgiving 2024
American Thanksgiving 2024 – we BBQ’d a rotisserie chicken and then made tacos for the holiday. What did you have!? One of my favourite things to make at Thanksgiving is mashed potatoes, mainly because then I can make golden quesadillas with the leftover mashed. Okay, let’s get cooking. American Thanksgiving 2024 First up, tacos are one of my favourite things to eat. We have them a handful of times a month – and not the same ones, but different combinations. Corn and bean salsa, bean…
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Recipe: Canadian Thanksgiving 2024
Canadian Thanksgiving 2024 – from Greek lemon potatoes and salad, all with roasted chicken, we’re in for a treat. Okay, let’s check out the recipes for this year’s Canadian holiday dinner. Canadian Thanksgiving 2024 First up, the roasted chicken is a go-to this year since we didn’t mash any potatoes (I know, right!?). Plus, the Starbucks dupe cranberry bliss bars are a definite treat. You can make them ahead of time and just be sure to let them sit at room temperature for an hour…
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Recipe: Greek Lemon Potatoes
Greek lemon potatoes – they’re fairly simple to make and taste great. If you know me, you know I love potatoes and these greek style spuds are fantastic, even cold! Let’s get started and bake up. Quick note they do take a while to cook, a little under 2 hours, so it’s the kind of recipe you’ll need to plan for, at least for me! Okay, recipe time. Greek Lemon Potatoes First, wash and peel the potatoes, then cut them into eights length wise. The…
