Original Source: Kitchen Secrets; Readers’ Digest cookbook (c)1998 When I was in my mid-twenties, *cough cough* years ago, I discovered a previously unknown passion for living on my own. I had initially gone from the family home to a few different living/roommate situations, and I had been quite happy doing this for several years. Eventually,…
Category: Recipes
Recipe Post: Kicka$$ Hummus (without using Tahini)
I live in a pretty…er…cosmopolitan city in Canada. If there’s any food item in the entire world I want to find, if it’s legal, it’s likely for sale somewhere around here. To be honest, I could probably find it even if it were not legal, but I’m a Good Girl (snerk), so I wouldn’t know…
Breakfast for Dinner? Why Not!
I received a text message from The Hubster early this afternoon, around lunch hour. He mentioned he was chatting with his workmates (both women), and the subject of waffles came around…don’t ask me how. Well, to the point, he ended up having a powerful hankerin’ for waffles, and asked if we could have them for…
Recipe and Tutorial: Summer in a Bowl
Sometimes, when the winter wind is whistling, the sky is grey, the cold is seeping in under the jamb, and you just can’t seem to break out of the winter blahs…you need to bring a warm little breath of summer into your life, if only to remember that it won’t be this cold and dreary…
Recipe post: Winter Warmth in Stew Form
I don’t know from which city or country you are reading this, but here, lately it’s been VERY cold. As in, -17C with wind chills of almost double that. Snowstorms and ice storms and public warming centres for the homeless or those without power; where whiteouts and zero visibility and multi-vehicle traffic accidents abound. You…
New Baking Ingredients! Happy dayz for me!
Look what the Santa-fairy brought me this week! While I’ve used the disposable piping bags and the vanilla bean paste before, I’ve never had quite so much at one time until now. Im really looking forward to getting into those fruit pastes and seeing what awesome things I can make with them! They’re no Boiron…
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