This baked pasta and cheese has no less than five vegetables in it (cauliflower, broccoli, carrot, spinach and onion), and if prepared in this way you will likely get away with explaining to your picky eaters that any “green” bits are merely parsley, mwaa haa haa… Another great way to encourage adoption of a new…
Category: Special Diets
Recipe Post: Instant Pot Apple Butter
Apple butter is a rich, sweet spread created by rendering apples (and a few key spices) down through long, slow cooking in a crockpot or over the stove until they lose much of their water and intensify in flavour. The name “apple butter” is a bit of a misnomer, as it doesn’t actually contain any real…
Recipe Post: Hearty Vegetable Stew and Dumplings
This recipe is an improvement on a recipe I published several years ago in my post, “Winter Warmth in Stew Form“. With those of us in the Northern hemisphere firmly in winter’s grasp once again, I felt it was time to bring this recipe back out and see what changes I could make to it….
Recipe Post: Quick and Easy Berry Swirl Cupcakes
There’s nothing like the flavour of market-fresh, in-season fruit in cupcakes and muffins. This recipe is not that. Let’s be honest; many of us in the Northern hemisphere are in the cold, dark days of winter, and fresh fruit is expensive and of a lower quality than during harvest season. But hey, when we want…
Recipe Post: Gluten-Free White Bread
My friend, Christine, is Hostess Extraordinaire of the popular Canadian podcast Insomnia Radio (you can find it on Spotify!). When she’s not recording in her home-studio, she can often be found working on developing her own gluten-free recipes. While not at Celiac-level of reaction to gluten, it definitely causes her a lot of pain and…
Recipe Post: Berry Lemon Coffee Cake
I came up with this recipe to use up some fresh blueberries that were going past their freshness date, but I didn’t want just another “blueberry lemon loaf” like I saw in recipes everywhere. I decided to get a bit creative and do a mash-up of a coffee cake and a lemon loaf, where instead…
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