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Christmas Baking
Dark and spicy gingerbread cake. Gingerbread cookies with lime royal icing. And something quiet and nostalgic to perfect the mood… Loreena McKennitt – In Praise of Christmas
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Slow Cooker Green Chicken Curry
November is when I really begin to crave comfort food at the end of the day, something to eat that is both warm and filling as well as being easy to prepare. I usually run after work and to come in from the rain and darkness to a hot shower and this bright slow cooker…
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Roasted Red Pepper and Burrata Open Faced Sandwich
Burrata is often thought of as a warm weather cheese, something to be enjoyed alongside summer kissed tomatoes, fruity olive oil, and ribbons of deep green basil. In the colder months my favourite way to serve burrata, an Italian cheese so fresh it literally oozes cream, is alongside roasted sweet red peppers and garlic cloves.…
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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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Honey Roasted Carrots
I have always found carrots to be less than exciting. Maybe part of the indifference comes from the disparity between their spectacular colour and lacklustre flavour – even young, tender carrots leave me wanting. The other night at the grocery store I asked Ian what he’d like for dinner as a side for risotto balls…