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Photos: Thankful
It’s Thanksgiving weekend and the leaves are blowing around the front yard and I’m thankful for so many things: my lovely little family, the strong connections I share with the amazing people in my life, a wonderful job and blogging. I’m so grateful to have a space where I can share my love for life. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t always love life – sometimes it is unfair, illogical, and dark; yet blogging, for me, moves me past that into the light. And, the…
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Recipe: Warm Roasted Beet and Carrot Salad
Warm roasted beet and carrot salad is not only full of fall flavours, but a perfect side dish to turkey. Garden fresh vegetables are the best. My co-worker (who is awesome) shared his harvest with me. Whoo hoo! Let’s start on these wonderful ingredients. Ingredients 5 garden carrots 6 garden beets 1 cup of got feta cheese 4 tablespoons of olive oil 2 tablespoons of thyme First, gather all of your ingredients and set the oven to 400 on roast. Wash and cut the carrots…
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Recipe: Gluten Free Spiced Pumpkin Cheesecake
Gluten free spiced pumpkin cheesecake is here just in time for Thanksgiving. Pumpkin spiced is all around, thus I’m in the fall spirit. We love cheesecake here in my house and this one is no exception. It’s so good and as a result, it doesn’t last long. This time I made it into bars, so the recipe is just halved; if you want to make a full cheesecake, then simply double the recipe and use a small springform pan. Let’s get baking! Ingredients 1 pack…
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Recipe: Spicy Whole Turkey
Spicy whole turkey for Thanksgiving! Who’s in? I am! This recipe is quite easy and gives your whole turkey a bit of kick this November. When I used to teach in Dallas, Texas, Thanksgiving was amazing – why? Because we got a whole week off! That’s how a worn out teacher thinks…time to catch up on laundry, cleaning the house, grading papers, holiday shopping, the 1343537 emails in my work inbox. The week was jam packed and I was excited to get up because I…
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Recipe: Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes
Sour cream mashed potatoes are the perfect side dish to any winter meal. Roast? Lamb? Or even black bean burgers – yes, these potatoes are creamy and delicious. Try them today! For this recipe, I doubled it because I used it for both a beef stew I made for our neighbour and for our thanksgiving meal. I never know what a normal serving of mashed potatoes looks like because I just love them so much – I think I eat like 2 or 3 servings.…
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Recipe: Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s Thanksgiving here in Canada and I wanted to share a few of my favourite holiday recipes from the past while. Happy Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie Roasted Turkey Beet Stacks The perfect items to make for your holiday meal. We celebrated yesterday with a full spread and I was working my butt off in the kitchen – it’s a happy place and a wonderful day to be thankful for all the fabulousness in our lives. Smile and be thankful. Oh, and eat up! All will be…
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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…
