Snacks

Recipe: Fried Avocado with Lime-Cilantro Dipping Sauce

May 2, 2011

Wanting to redeem myself from the monumental failure of my salted caramel candy apples — which devolved into sliced apples and a dip — I accepted the task of creating an avocado recipe for MissAvaCado‘s Cinco de Mayo Blogger Challenge. The results have me wondering if I’m cut out for challenges. While the goal was [...]

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Recipe: Chocolate Basil Muffins

February 14, 2011

Since I’m an unapologetic chocolate addict and flower fanatic, you’d think I’d be blogging about Valentine’s Day with all the love in my heart and passion in my fingertips. But it’s one of those “special” days I ignore in part because it’s so contrived. It doesn’t help that the media, supermarkets and florists start pushing [...]

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Recipe: Salted Caramel Apples

February 10, 2011

To help celebrate the 200th anniversary of the McIntosh apple, I’m taking part in The Ontario Apple Growers’ challenge. They’re looking for the best candy apple recipe — ever. After careful consideration, a bit of testing and a second-degree burn to my index finger, I have determined that caramel-coated apples are the Kobayashi Maru of [...]

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Recipe and Giveaway: Chipotle Shortbreads

November 4, 2010

Move over Julia Child and Paula Dean. I’m the Butter Queen today. Now that the jack-o’-lanterns have been extinguished and the last of the waxy mini-chocolate bars have been gobbled, we can safely move onto thoughts of holiday baking. While I’m not ready to rummage in the basement for stockings and mistletoe, I am more [...]

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Pink Angel Squares Recipe

August 30, 2010

Pink. I hate it. It’s yet another carry over from my childhood. Every time I wore any shade of fuschia, magenta or bubble-gum some well-meaning adult would put a hand to my forehead and ask me if I was feeling all right. Classmates? They’d just tell me to get a tan. Hear encouragement like this [...]

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Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

February 19, 2010

EJSGHPK2KBS4 Huh? What is that gobbledy-gook in the previous line? Apparently, it’s the high-tech way one “claims” their blog on Technorati. For some reason it refuses to recognize my new location or update my feed. Huh? Technorati. It’s is a search engine for blogs. According to Wikipedia, the name Technorati is “a blend of the [...]

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Savory Cheese Cookies

February 16, 2010

You will see no pancakes here today. No stacks of blueberry buttermilk griddle cakes dripping with maple syrup. No golden latkes dotted with sour cream or slathered in apple sauce. Not so much as a waffle. Crepes? Forget it. Instead, I’m offering you little disks of fat in the form of savory cheese cookies. The [...]

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Vanilla Cupcakes

January 20, 2010

Why the pretty cakes? I’m celebrating. I finally hit Murphy where he lives. Thinks he can break my oven on Christmas morning and get away with it? No way. Sure, he wagged a $300 repair bill under my nose and then pulled it and the rug out from under me by making the parts obsolete. [...]

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Rosemary, Raisin and Pecan Crisps

December 16, 2009

I can’t believe I’m about to make these again. The recipe makes a two loaf pans’ worth and the entire batch is almost gone. Bored with plain crackers and still hyperventilating from the sticker price on the artisanal crisps, I was thrilled to find a knock-off recipe in Julie Van Rosendaal’s book Grazing: A Healthier [...]

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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 [...]

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Italian Meatballs

April 7, 2009

People ask Andrew if being married to a food blogger means he eats wonderful meals all the time. His response? “My life is a series of weeks. Sometimes you eat ice cream for seven days. Sometimes it’s all soup.” In my defense, there was salad in the fridge at all times. Even when I wasn’t [...]

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