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Recipe: Roasted Turkey
Roasted turkey in 3 easy steps. Easter is right around the corner and this quick and easy turkey is perfect for your festive celebration. Ingredients 1 turkey 2 tablespoons of salt Step One: Buy a good turkey – either local or grade A, or both! Take it out of the plastic and wash it well. Step Two: Place the turkey on a large pan, breast side down, and rub the salt on the top and inside the cavity. Step Three: Place in the oven (I…
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Recipe: One Pan Chicken
One pan chicken – so good and so easy. This is the perfect healthy dinner to make on a weeknight when you need dinner quickly. Preheat your oven to 375-400 and set to roast. Now, let’s get cooking! Ingredients 8 medium potatoes 2 lbs of carrots 2 onions 4-5 (1 lbs) chicken breasts 3 tablespoons of olive oil 2 tablespoons of garlic 1 tablespoon of chili powder First – wash your potatoes, carrots, and onions. Next, gather the rest of the ingredients. Cut up the…
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Recipe: Baked Sweet Potato Fries
Sweet Potato Fries. Baked right in your own oven…from scratch. So good! Last winter I made fresh cut fries and this time I wanted to try it with sweet potatoes…worked out so well. Ingredients 1 sweet potato 1 1/2-2 tablespoons of olive oil few dashes of salt and pepper few dashes of rosemary Gather all of your ingredients and peal the sweet potato (wash it, too). Now, carefully cut it up into fries. Place in a bowl and toss in the oil, salt & pepper,…
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Recipe: Pinwheel Chicken
Tired of plain chicken? Roll your sleeves (and your chicken) up and get ready for this delicious dish. Pinwheel chicken here we come, let’s get cooking. Ingredients 2 chicken breasts 30 grams of goats cheese 2 cups of fresh spinach 1/2 of roasted red peppers (I was lazy and couldn’t find the jar kind…so I used sun-dried tomatoes…hi, and welcome to 1992). 2 tablespoons of olive oil As always – gather all of you ingredients. Now, place some plastic down, pound out your chicken. I…
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Recipe: Mexican One Dish Casserole
In a rush? Need to just throw something in the oven? I felt like my Mexican Lasagna yet I didn’t have time to make it…this recipe has the same flavours without all the work. Time for Mexican one dish casserole. The prep for this recipe took me 6 minutes – then the oven did the rest of the work. Try it next time you’re in a time crunch. Ingredients 5 chicken breasts a cup of raw quinoa 1 cup of vegetable broth 2 cans of…
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Recipe: Rice Pasta with Tomato and Garlic Sauce
This dish seems too simply and the kind of thing you’d make when you’re too lazy to go to the grocery store, however, it’s so good great. I first made this dish after my roommate in university made it – she got it from her boy friend’s mom. It’s simply and the kind of think you can keep your pantry stocked with. Let’s get cooking rice pasta with tomato and garlic sauce. Ingredients 1 bag of penne (I used rice pasta, thus it’s gluten free)…
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Recipe: Mexican Lasagna
I love Mexican food – it’s probably my favourite cuisine…and since I don’t live in Texas anymore, it’s a little more difficult to find great authentic flavours here in Northern Alberta. This dish, however, packs a punch of Mexican flavour and I always go back for seconds! Let’s get cooking this Mexican lasagna. This is an dish you can make a day or two ahead and then cook up on a busy night – it’ll feed 6-8 people (yet the leftovers are good…so if you…
