Articles tagged with Cook
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April Showers Bringing May Fruit Flowers
Looking for the perfect Spring-time gift to give a friend this May? Fruit Bouquets are the ultimate craze! Making fruit bouquets is a fun and creative activity that you can participate in with the kids. The material you're working with is healthy, so you won't get distracted by carb-loaded cake mixtures or chocolate, and the [...]
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Zucchini and Sweet Pepper Pancakes
Shrove Tuesday is approaching, and it's time to take out the syrup and get pancake flipping. Unfortunately, when we're dieting, pancakes can be our biggest downfall. There is nothing nutritious in them. How about doing pancakes with a twist this Shrove Tuesday and making a dinner out of them? These zucchini and sweet pepper pancakes [...]
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Chicken Frangelico
I love the hazelnut flavour of Frangelico and decided to make my own interpretation of Saveur Magazine's Chicken Galliano. Goat cheese and prosciutto is a classic combination, but be careful not to use too much goat cheese or it will overwhelm the chicken. I recommend using a heavy-gauge, stainless saute pan. It's hard to scrape [...]
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Gnocchi with vegan pesto cream sauce and shiitake mushrooms
Last night I had craving for comfort food and tt has been really hot this week where I live (close to 100 degrees yesterday and even hotter the day before). Soups and casseroles were so unsuitable for this climate, so I had to invent another kind of comfort food. I had some packaged whole wheat gnocchi [...]
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Barbacoa Beef
A couple of months ago I decided to be a little different. Instead of ordering my typical double chicken burrito bowl, I instead opted for something called Barbacoa Beef. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I immediately fell in love with the intense flavor and spice. I [...]
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Juicy
I'm sure I've used the for a post title before. Nevermind, I'm hopeless at thinking of titles! I've had a lot of juice today! For breakfast I had a Berocca, a coffee and a fresh juice. I had my favourite carrot, apple, ginger and lemon juice Sadly I broke my favourite glass reaching over to plug my [...]
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Epicuriosity and vegan whole wheat naan
One of the best side benefits of eating vegetarian/vegan, in my opinion, has been the exposure that this has given me to foods from other cultures. Restaurants that serve foods from other regions of the world are frequently veg-friendly and I have discovered so many things that I love with what I would call my [...]
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Grilled pizza
It takes a lot to impress me with pizza but if it is homemade and grilled it is likely to be great, if you ask me! I make my own crust and, with all the different kinds of flour out there, there is a bit of alchemy that goes into this process. I love the [...]
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Red and Yellow Pepper and Crab Soup
I heard about this recipe from a friend who found it from a website called Recipesia.com and since I usually only like soups that have a tangy or spicy or citrusy twist to it, it sounded like it would be very at home on my tastebuds so last night we tried it out. Results [...]
