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chicken coconut curry soup
This has been one of our top five weeknight soups for the past three years (thanks, Sheri!).For some reason, we didn't break it out to serve at a dinner party until just a couple of weeks ago. One guest had been suffering from a terrible cough and I thought chicken soup was in order.It's a humble...
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This has been one of our top five weeknight soups for the past three years (thanks, Sheri!).For some reason, we didn't break it out to serve at a dinner party until just a couple of weeks ago. One guest had been suffering from a terrible cough and I thought chicken soup was in order.It's a humble...
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martini rosso
This past weekend, we had the kind of summer weather where all you can do is tape old sheets over your unadorned windows and sit, panting and sipping sun tea, because you are just too exhausted from all that effort.Luckily, on Sunday, we managed to escape our dark sauna (that is, otherwise lovely...
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This past weekend, we had the kind of summer weather where all you can do is tape old sheets over your unadorned windows and sit, panting and sipping sun tea, because you are just too exhausted from all that effort.Luckily, on Sunday, we managed to escape our dark sauna (that is, otherwise lovely...
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pasta with yogurt, peas, and chile
Here's what I like about this recipe. You blend some peas – and hold some peas back – with yogurt, olive oil and garlic until it makes a smooth, pale-green sauce. Which is something I never would have thought of.Later, you add coarsely-crumbled feta cheese and ripped basil lea...
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Here's what I like about this recipe. You blend some peas – and hold some peas back – with yogurt, olive oil and garlic until it makes a smooth, pale-green sauce. Which is something I never would have thought of.Later, you add coarsely-crumbled feta cheese and ripped basil lea...
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where to eat: halifax, charlottetown and calgary
Heading east this summer?Think locally-roasted coffee, scallops, haddock, and teeny-tiny-blueberry cobbler for dessert.Heading west?Think more locally-roasted coffee, burgers, fried chicken, and meringue-orange curd sundae for dessert.I've just updated hop & go fetch it with my favourit...
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Heading east this summer?Think locally-roasted coffee, scallops, haddock, and teeny-tiny-blueberry cobbler for dessert.Heading west?Think more locally-roasted coffee, burgers, fried chicken, and meringue-orange curd sundae for dessert.I've just updated hop & go fetch it with my favourit...
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snack chronicles: cheddar oatcakes
Meet my new favourite snack: the cheddar oatcake.It is crisp and cheesy with little nubbins of steel-cut oats, and I ate the last one this morning and I'm going to have to fix that soon. Very soon.The recipe comes from Lucy Waverman, who says she first tried a cheesy oatcake at a farm store on th...
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Meet my new favourite snack: the cheddar oatcake.It is crisp and cheesy with little nubbins of steel-cut oats, and I ate the last one this morning and I'm going to have to fix that soon. Very soon.The recipe comes from Lucy Waverman, who says she first tried a cheesy oatcake at a farm store on th...
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lemon chicken soup with spaghetti
Over the past ten days, we have made three different kinds of chicken soup.We've made them all to help cure a dreadful cough that's kept us up at night and breaking into hacking fits during the day. Oh, and because chicken soup tastes good.This is soup number two. (I might also tell you about sou...
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Over the past ten days, we have made three different kinds of chicken soup.We've made them all to help cure a dreadful cough that's kept us up at night and breaking into hacking fits during the day. Oh, and because chicken soup tastes good.This is soup number two. (I might also tell you about sou...
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peanut sesame noodles
This is the kind of food that satisfies all my cravings, and doesn't even have a speck of butter or cheese. What it does have is peanut butter, which seems to make everything – sweet or savoury – much better.Deb with Smitten Kitchen calls this "Single Girl's Dinner." I could i...
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This is the kind of food that satisfies all my cravings, and doesn't even have a speck of butter or cheese. What it does have is peanut butter, which seems to make everything – sweet or savoury – much better.Deb with Smitten Kitchen calls this "Single Girl's Dinner." I could i...
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buttermilk pancakes with apple-pear tops
If you come visit us over a weekend, we will probably make you buttermilk pancakes for breakfast.Or maybe buttermilk waffles. They're both from the same master recipe and equally good but completely different.If I'm feeling fancy, I will find some fruit and carefully cut it into paper-thin slices...
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If you come visit us over a weekend, we will probably make you buttermilk pancakes for breakfast.Or maybe buttermilk waffles. They're both from the same master recipe and equally good but completely different.If I'm feeling fancy, I will find some fruit and carefully cut it into paper-thin slices...
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orange jelly with chantilly cream
In her headnote in Dinner Chez Moi, Laura Calder says this jelly is both sexy and wobbly.That description was enough to draw me in. Two years later, I must have made this jelly ten or twelve times, and it still comes out sexy and wobbly, and just exactly the way jelly must have been before commer...
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In her headnote in Dinner Chez Moi, Laura Calder says this jelly is both sexy and wobbly.That description was enough to draw me in. Two years later, I must have made this jelly ten or twelve times, and it still comes out sexy and wobbly, and just exactly the way jelly must have been before commer...
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breakfast: peanut butter quinoa oatmeal
Now that we're on the new breakfast routine of oatmeal and granola, I've found myself missing peanut butter.For years, I particularly looked forward to my toast with peanut butter and honey in the morning. I am an Adams peanut butter fanatic, and have been known to have family members import Adam...
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Now that we're on the new breakfast routine of oatmeal and granola, I've found myself missing peanut butter.For years, I particularly looked forward to my toast with peanut butter and honey in the morning. I am an Adams peanut butter fanatic, and have been known to have family members import Adam...
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tomato soup with two fennels
I am having a bit of a moment with A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg.Before The Never-Ending Flu of 2015 struck a couple weeks ago, I made espresso-walnut toffee, stewed prunes with citrus and cinnamon, and fennel salad with Asian pear and Parmesan.*Now, A Homemade Life is due back at the librar...
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I am having a bit of a moment with A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg.Before The Never-Ending Flu of 2015 struck a couple weeks ago, I made espresso-walnut toffee, stewed prunes with citrus and cinnamon, and fennel salad with Asian pear and Parmesan.*Now, A Homemade Life is due back at the librar...
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cheesecake in a jar with passion fruit sauce
The birthday tradition around here is that the birthday girl or boy can choose whatever they like for their birthday dinner – often a brand-new recipe – and the non-birthday spouse will make it.This year, the birthday boy chose his menu from Japanese Farm Food: fat little teri...
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The birthday tradition around here is that the birthday girl or boy can choose whatever they like for their birthday dinner – often a brand-new recipe – and the non-birthday spouse will make it.This year, the birthday boy chose his menu from Japanese Farm Food: fat little teri...
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chipotle & rosemary spiced nuts
I love fancy nuts.By fancy, I mean nuts that are lightly glazed and roasted. Oh, and that are exciting enough to make me look forward to them as a mid-morning snack.Spicy cajun almonds and Gramercy Tavern bar nuts have been favourites around here, but after Christmas, I felt like the ne...
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I love fancy nuts.By fancy, I mean nuts that are lightly glazed and roasted. Oh, and that are exciting enough to make me look forward to them as a mid-morning snack.Spicy cajun almonds and Gramercy Tavern bar nuts have been favourites around here, but after Christmas, I felt like the ne...
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we eat well in edmonton
is a little big city of about a million way up on the 53rd latitude (north!).There is a real pride here in what we can grow, including sweet, crunchy carrots and creamy Mozart potatoes for mashing.But what I love is how many talented chefs we have in this city who dream up rootbeer brisket sandwi...
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is a little big city of about a million way up on the 53rd latitude (north!).There is a real pride here in what we can grow, including sweet, crunchy carrots and creamy Mozart potatoes for mashing.But what I love is how many talented chefs we have in this city who dream up rootbeer brisket sandwi...
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peppermint lavender balm
I have never made a cosmetic balm before.When I pull out the double-boiler, it's usually to melt chocolate.But I kept coming across these recipes for homemade vaporub and I couldn't get over how nice it would be to make a balm where I could pronounce all the ingredients.After a little research, a...
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I have never made a cosmetic balm before.When I pull out the double-boiler, it's usually to melt chocolate.But I kept coming across these recipes for homemade vaporub and I couldn't get over how nice it would be to make a balm where I could pronounce all the ingredients.After a little research, a...
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