Breakfast in a Pan
May 19, 2011
Planning to head to the cottage for this first long weekend of the "summer" season? (Granted, it's not technically summer yet according to the calendar and the temps here in Ontario!) Or maybe you're…
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May 4, 2011
A few weeks ago I visited Kraft Canada's head office in Toronto as a guest speaker in Kraft Kitchen's series of lunch hour cooking classes for their employees. The class I was attending was appropria…
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Paska Bread for Easter
Apr 21, 2011
Paska - Easter bread! This Easter bread known as Paska was a tradition in my Mennonite family when I was growing up. Made with flour, yeast, sugar, eggs, milk, and citrus rind and juice, then co…
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Maple Walnut Pie
Apr 10, 2011
Here in Ontario the maple syrup crop has been harvested for another year. Swweeeet! I was lucky to be given a bottle of maple syrup by a neighbour who has family with maple trees on their property. I…
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Here's the forecast for spring: Make a lemon desse ...
Apr 5, 2011
Early spring is not my favourite time of year. The outside temperature rides a perpetual weather roller coaster. Up, down, up, down... It can't decide if it should be warm or cool, or hey, why not bo…
Read Post >Dipping Eggs
Mar 28, 2011
The liquid gold yolk of a partially cooked egg is a thing of beauty to many egg lovers! However, soft-cooked (aka soft-boiled) is not the way most of us usually eat our eggs. Sometimes it's because w…
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Ham and Cheese Wrap Recipe
Mar 24, 2011
I've been staring at this recipe all month: the March offering in the 2011 Good Things Grow in Ontario calendar created by Foodland Ontario. The calendar hangs in my office on the bulletin board just…
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Mar 18, 2011
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies If you've had kids home from school this week because of March Break, and you're looking for something to do together as the week comes to a close, how about bakin…
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Watch and learn how to make poached eggs - and mor ...
Feb 17, 2011
Do you learn more quickly by being shown how to do something rather than reading or hearing about how it's supposed to be done? If so, cooking videos are a great tool to help you learn new cooki…
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