From the category archives:

Breakfast

Dried Apple Breakfast Bars

February 24, 2010

Winter in Ontario. It either comes in cloudy grey lined with depressing slush or dazzling blue edged with blinding white snow.
But there’s a new colour this season. Red.Very fitting for a Canadian-grown fruit.
These Red Prince apples are a new variety grown just a couple hours away from me — in ski country no less. Here [...]

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Raspberry Lassi

July 28, 2009

I know I shouldn’t post information like this, but I am not a Breakfast Eater. Please, don’t tell me breakfast is The Most Important Meal of the Day. I have read the reports and do not need to be reminded Breakfast Eaters consume fewer calories throughout the day, snack less, have fewer cravings and, if [...]

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Homemade Version of Starbucks Oat and Fruit Bars

May 4, 2009

I had hoped to post on Friday, but this is how my first attempt at the requested Starbucks Oat and Fruit Bars turned out.

They tasted great, but I had to eat them with a spoon. If Anja wanted granola, I could have just pointed you to this post. But she asked for a homemade version [...]

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Homemade Granola

January 20, 2009

For a couple of weeks now, my quest for a healthy breakfast has made me hanker for homemade granola. During my university days, I used to make big batches of this cereal to fuel me on the long, book-laden walk to campus. These days, I need fuel for the long, snow-laden paths begging to be [...]

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Christmas Breakfast – Buttermilk Scones

December 16, 2008

I don’t know how my mother did it. She used to serve a homemade Swedish tea ring, fresh scones, fruit salad, scrambled eggs, sausages and hot chocolate for Christmas breakfast. We faced this gargantuan meal mere hours after gorging on a full Christmas Eve dinner, complete with a chocolate Yule log. No wonder it was [...]

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Pushing the Organic Envelope

January 2, 2008

Organic is a real buzz word these days. I’ve seen organic choco-bears cereal, organic peanut butter cup cookies and admit to indulging in embarrassing amounts of organic chocolate, myself. While all food is technically organic because it contains carbon, people assume if it’s bears the label it must be good for you (which I’m [...]

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Breakfast, Canadian Style

April 10, 2007

Ten-year-old Nicholas and his family are coming to visit from Australia. Being fresh out of Vegemite, I was a bit worried about what to give him for breakfast. While his parents assure me he’s easy to feed, after hearing his enthusiastic request for pancakes, I’m now concerned we won’t be able to fill him up.
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Pancakes in The Patio

June 30, 2006

Tomorrow is Canada Day and my family usually gathers sometime during the long weekend for a tradition we call Pancakes in The Patio. As the title suggests, we get together and eat pancakes. On the patio. In fact, we make the pancakes on the patio. This involves many yards of orange electrical cord and a [...]