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Roasted Fingerling Potatoes
I am not one for bragging about my own cooking, in fact I would say that if anything I need to work on my self-confidence when presenting friends and family with offerings designed to please their gastronomic senses. However, I can say with the utmost self-assuredness that I make absolutely perfect roasted fingerling potatoes and…
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French Toast Grilled Cheese
This French toast grilled cheese sandwich is the miraculous result of two entirely mundane ingredients; the whitest, most nutritionally devoid bread you can find and a block or ball of pizza mozzarella. An ideal serving situation: coming in from a long run in the rain, showering and getting into pyjamas, putting on some music, and…
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Beef and Root Vegetable Stew
Mondays are now actually Sundays according to my current work schedule and I have spent this particular Sunday making beef stew. Beef stew epitomizes cozy afternoons spent lazily cooking and drinking mug after mug of Earl Grey tea while the rain falls ceaselessly outside your window. And also this: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a33ig18dscA] If anything, that makes me…
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Mango and Black Bean Quinoa Salad
Ease of transportation: the deciding factor in my culinary choices lately. I can truthfully testify that this salad is good on a sandy Lake Huron beach with pane glass water and a sunset, on the couch watching The West Wing with your best friend, at the break table on your lunch on a Wednesday at…
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Hungarian Mushroom Soup
Hungarian mushroom soup is easily, without any contest whatsoever, my absolute all-time favourite soup to eat once the evenings begin to cool in September (continuing throughout the fall and winter.) This classic recipe is taken from The Moosewood Cookbook, both my mom and dad made this soup on weekends when I was growing up and…