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Blood Orange and Rosemary Simple Syrup (and what to do with it!)
When blood oranges are in season I find ways to include them in all sorts of recipes. From salads to chicken dishes to desserts, their musky sweet taste is always welcome in my kitchen. However, it wasn’t until I was making a blood orange variation of Nigella Lawson’s Clementine Cake that I discovered how perfectly they…
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Fantastic Slow Cooker Pot Roast
My slow cooker, my friend. And a worthy friend at that! I can roughly chop a bunch of ingredients up, throw them in my slow cooker, and 4-8 hours later I have a meal that is comforting, delicious, complex in flavour, and almost always yields leftovers. Pot roast is an especially rewarding slow cooker meal, the final…
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Simple Slow Cooker Vegetarian Chili
This simple slow cooker recipe for vegetarian chili is reliable, comforting, and very adaptable. I realize it doesn’t follow any of the strict guidelines that a truly authentic chili would, but I think that’s what gives this recipe a sense of fun and spontaneity. I dreamed this version up while I was taking an early…
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Christmas As I Remember It: My Favourite Christmas
If I were to describe to you Christmas, by which I mean the Christmas, the one that serves as a Platonic model for all future Christmases, I would be referring to the one when I was about 8 years old in my hometown of London, Ontario. My storyline isn’t entirely fluid, I could have been…
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Chickpea and Cucumber Salad with a Creamy Lemon, Parsley, and Avocado Dressing
This is a bright and immensely flavourful variation on a chickpea salad, ideal for eating with a loaf of buttered sourdough toast from Batard Bakery in Vancouver (kindly gifted by one of our guests over the weekend at the cocktail party Ian and I hosted). I went for a long walk on an empty stomach along…