Category: Grains
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Rice Pudding
Rice pudding is a tetchy subject to bring up when discussing food with friends, opinions are stubborn and often extreme in nature. People either love rice pudding or they hate it, it needs to be made using ___ type of rice, cream versus milk, add-ins versus an unadorned pudding… the list is long and paved…
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Pumpkin Steel Cut Oats
If there’s anything I can do to make breakfast more appealing, I’ll do it. It was difficult to learn to love breakfast, I like sleeping late and eating breakfast always seemed like a waste of precious sleeping time. I had to bribe myself out of bed each morning by promising my future morning self a…
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Batch Cooking: Bean and Brown Rice Burritos
When the sun begins to set earlier at what feels like alarming speed I start to feel as though I have fewer hours in my day. Of course this isn’t true but it’s hard to ignore the psychological effects of less daylight, so I try to do things that will make the time I do…
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Roasted Portobello Mushroom Risotto
The past 2 and a half months have been rife with cross country wedding preparations; although our wedding was in Vancouver we received an overwhelming amount of love and help from my family in Ontario, Ian’s family in Seattle and my friends and co-workers in Vancouver. It was so incredible to have so much hard…
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Easy Bean and Rice Bowl with Sweet Peppers
In many ways this is the perfect recipe for last minute meals. Made with odds and ends you may have floating around in your fridge it comes together quickly and is endlessly adaptable. For the rice you can sub in brown rice, purple rice, quinoa, orzo or bulghur, it just needs to result in about…