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Chocolate Chip Tahini Shortbread Cookies
Hold. the. phone. I know I have a lot of great chocolate cookie recipes on this site but these have definitely achieved legendary status. The Tahini makes all the difference here in terms of texture making them delicate and buttery. It’s delicious too, subtly nutty (like me), not overpowering by any means and it ties…
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Italian Wedding Soup
This meatball and pastina soup has made a major come-back on social media recently and I’m into it! The stand-out ingredients are mini meatballs and a leafy green like spinach or escarole. It was literally the soup served at every Italian wedding I attended as a child here in Montreal, so it’s not just a…
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Easy Lasagna Rolls with Spinach, Ricotta and Prosciutto
I love the creamy comfort of the béchamel & nutmeg, the contrast of the fresh tasting marinara sauce and the slight saltiness of the Parmesan cheese and prosciutto. So simple to prepare and can be made ahead. Freeze before baking and then cook from frozen the day you want to serve it or prepare it…
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DECADENT CHOCOLATE SOUFFLÉ CAKE
We’ve got your holiday dessert needs covered! This deliciously decadent chocolate soufflé cake is light with an intensely chocolatey gooey center. Plus, it’s easy to make! There’s only 1 tablespoon of flour, which can be omitted completely if you like or substitute with a gluten-free option. I add about 3 tablespoons of freshly brewed espresso…
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Mom’s Lasagna
There are so many great ways to make Lasagna and I love them all but this recipe in particular obviously holds a special place in my heart, and stomach and is beloved by the whole family. In fact, if anyone else but my mom makes the Christmas Lasagna, you will hear a few low grumbles…
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Eggplant Stuffed with Rice, Dried Figs & Feta
When I try developing recipes, they don’t always pan out because that is the nature of experimentation but then, there are these moments, like today, when I just hit it right out of the park! This puts wind in my sails! The flavours – This dish is savoury because addition of tomato, a little sweet…
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Spanakopita
What’s not to love? Crispy, buttery phyllo, a dilly spinach and feta filling- served warm or at room temp, and sneakily stolen from the fridge as a midnight snack. It’s heaven to me. When I started to develop a passion for cooking in my early 20’s, I asked (begged) my friend, who is of Greek…
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My Go-To Roasted Cauliflower
Print Recipe Roasted Cauliflower Roasting cauliflower transforms it completely. It goes from a tasteless, styrophoam-like vegetable into the most deliciously caramelized, and versatile one – a blank canvas, ready to take on flavour. I love serving this as a side, I also make the best cauliflower pasta with pine nuts and ricotta salata, or I…
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Apple Cider Doughnut Cake
Fall is in the air and what do we want? Apple desserts! Spice cakes! Cinnamon! Nutmeg! and all of those warm cozy spices! This cake made my whole house smell of apple & cinnamon as it baked evoking happy feelings of sugar and spice and everything nice. Not too sweet, this perfect tea cake is…
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Easy Vegetable Curry with Crispy Tofu
This easy and delicious curry has been a major staple around my house especially during this isolation we’ve been braving. It’s comforting, a little spicy and hearty. Serve over rice and enjoy! Print Recipe Easy Vegetable Curry with Tofu Course Main Dish Cuisine Indian, Indian-ish Keyword easy, Healthy, quick Servings Servings Ingredients 4 Tbsp Extra…
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Peach Crostata
This lovely peach crostata is an easy-to-make rustic pie that is perfect for summer when peaches are fully in season and at the peak of deliciousness. So there’s not much dressing up to do here, nothing fancy goes into it; the peaches do all the talking. Serve it “a la mode” with a complementry ice…
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Baked Cauliflower Buffalo “Wings” + Ranch Dip
It sounds crazy to some, I know. What do you mean cauliflower wings??? The thing is, the only way these are trying to be wings is in the sauce and colour. That’s about it. This recipe doesn’t try to mimic the texture of chicken at all. That would be gross come to think of it.…
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The Best Homemade Hamburger Buns
Living in the suburbs of Montreal, Canada is a sad place in terms of finding high quality hamburger buns. I mean I have one local store that SOMETIMES carries brioche buns but that’s it. What about delicious potato buns??? You can forget about it! Also since we are currently under quarantine, procuring such delights has…
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Extra-Juicy Chicken Burgers
I know that every time I post a recipe I say “IT’S THE BEST!!!” and these burgers really are! They’re the poultry burger equivalent to my smash burgers which are hard to match! Let’s face it, the best chicken burgers we know are delicious fried chicken ones. I’m not talking about those. When you want…
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Extra Crispy Baked Fish Tacos
These baked fish tacos are THE best and absolutely fool proof. I’ll confess here and now that I made these without issue after a virtual happy hour in which I had two pretty strong margaritas! Hence the lack of photos lol. (More to come, after I make these again) I am always searching for recipes…
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Obscenely Chocolatey Chocolate Cookies
Since Easter, which was cancelled, I have been craving chocolate; specifically Cadbury mini-eggs. Seems like after the toilet paper, lysol wipes, hair dye and flour shortages the obvious next things to go were Cadbury mini eggs of course! Weird. Anyway, this post has nothing to do with mini-eggs but it does have a lot to…
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Spicy Chicken Stir-Fry with Celery and Peanuts
I was watching Instagam, you know… as one does especially during this self-isolation period that we’re going through. Many chefs/food editors/ trainers and other various professionals are thankfully supplying us with recipe ideas, cooking and fitness videos. You need the fitness videos after all of the cooking videos. It’s giving us access to more content,…
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Salted Buckwheat Chocolate Chunk Cookies
I am starting quite the collection of chocolate chip (or chunk) cookie recipes here on this site! I just love them, in any form with any flour any type of fat any type of chocolate. This particular cookie is thin, crispy edged with a chewy centre with delicious large pools of intense chocolate flavour. Using…
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Wine-Braised Chicken with Artichoke Hearts
The weeknight-friendly dinner that’s pretty enough if someone suddenly declares that they’re going to pop in for supper on a weeknight 😉 Have this recipe in your arsenal, just in case! It’s also pretty and delicious enough to serve your guests on the weekend when you’d rather be obsessing over your table setting and wine…
