Ok, ok, don’t walk away! These actually taste *good*, even if you’re an unrepentant carnivore. I’m hardly one to proselytize the health benefits of a completely meat-free lifestyle, considering I still consume dairy and eggs from time to time, and I still require a daily B12 supplement. However, sometimes, eating something that wasn’t mooing, clucking…
Tag: Substitutions
Recipe Review: Gluten Free Chocolate Glitter Cookies by Canadian Living
These delicious little chocolatey glitter bombs of deliciousness (did I mention these are delicious?!?) come from my Complete Canadian Living Baking Book. This book has been out for some time but should still be easy to acquire; I highly recommend it! Of my literal *hundreds* of cookbooks, this is one of my top five that…
Recipe Post: Tropical Carrot Cake with Pineapple Cream Cheese Icing
This recipe is my absolute go-to recipe for all things carrot cake; its origin comes from my little More Food That Really Schmecks baking book by Canadian home-cook heroine, Edna Staebler. I’ve fiddled around with it over the years, adding this and removing/altering that, until I developed what I consider to be the best carrot…
Back to Basics: Pantry Staples – Pasta
Now we’ve been dealing with the Virus That Shall Not Be Named for over a year now, I feel like I may be somewhat late to the table with this advice. However, I feel that there may be a few people still out there who have decided the drive-through and Uber Eats Lyfe is no…
Recipe Post/Review: Baked Feta Pasta
Ok, ok, I know I’m not much for following food trends, nor watching much from TikTok (though there’s been some awesomely fun stuff on there lately!), but this particular recipe just caught my attention. It seems that everyone and their Mums are recreating this recipe on YouTube right now, from Brit sensations SORTEDFood and Barry…
Recipe Post: Coconutty Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (GF, DF)
It should be pretty apparent that I enjoy developing my own recipes; one of the ways I do this is by converting tried and true “standard” recipes to accommodate certain special diets, as I did with these cookies for a friend who is gluten intolerant. I heard from her recently that she was just finishing…
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