These twice-baked sweet potatoes are so next level! Not only is the flavour combination amazing with the sweetness of the honey-butter and the hit of garlic, but the dish is so darn pretty too. You’ll want to make this for your next dinner party for sure! FAST TRACK: When I want to make this recipe…
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Roasted Vegetable Lasagna with Boursin Cheese and Ricotta
What is it about the process of roasting vegetables that makes them so incredibly delicious. I’d say it’s the caramelization, the olive oil and the seasoning. Roasting a vegetable transforms it and it suddenly it becomes a vessel for any delicious flavours and aromatics you can throw at it! Think roasted potatoes with lemon and…
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Roasted Vegetable Salad with White Beans, Fresh Herbs and Feta
Roasted vegetables combined with the creamy beans and feta with the fresh burst provided by the herbs and vinaigrette makes for a really unbelievably delicious and satisfying salad.
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Giada’s Lasagna Rolls
Hey everybody, I know my posts have been few and far between and I do apologize for that. I’ve been busy and haven’t had much time for experimentation and what I like to call recreational cooking. However this weekend I was inspired! I got an email from Giadzy which is Giada De Laurentiis’ newsletter. I…
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Mini Post! Creamy Dill Dressing
Hello there! Here’s a really easy recipe for creamy dill dressing. Last night, I doloped it over smoked salmon and fingerling potato salad. It’s so versitile! Drizzle it over some grilled shrimp, seafood salad or cooked fish such as trout or salmon. While I was prepping the rest of my dinner, I was dipping potato chips in it….
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Farro Salad with Arugula and Goat Cheese over Beet Hummus
Hello there! I tried this gorgeous salad at a recent event I attended at Appetite for Books, a lovely, aptly named cookbook store in Westmount where you can attend either a traditional cooking class or a private dinner for 10, where you watch and learn how your delicious 4 course meal is created. I…
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Chickpea Bolognese and Pasta (V)
Hello there, I often try to go meatless with my pasta sauces and I always feel like there’s something missing…Oh yeah. It’s sausage. So you will understand my hesitancy when I came across this recipe in my new Thug Kitchen cookbook (Vegan). Although, I noticed that I kept flipping back to it, curious. So I made…
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Curry in a Hurry (V, GF)
Welcome to today’s post! Curries have become Britain’s national dish! Did you know that? Not meat pies, mushy peas or fish and chips! Nope. Everyone “goes for a Curry” over there; after a night of drinking, before a night of drinking, during a night of drinking lol… Curry in Britain has become as common and beloved as pasta…
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Zoodles with Almond Butter Sauce
Lets begin… Zoodles?? (my spell checker is in disbelief. It keeps changing the word to “noodles”) Zoodles : Spaghetti style noodles made from zucchini, using a Spiralizer Facts: Vegetarian recipe, Gluten Free, Vegan & Raw. It’s super healthy; super delicious Hello there! So, here is another recipe that was so delicious & so simple to prepare…
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Bibimbap Salad
Hello there! My husband is participating in a weight loss competition at the office so I am trying to support him by making low-fat, low-gluten meals that contain as many nutrients as possible. We have been eating better for a while now but we were a week away from his final weigh in so it was…
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Delicious Paleo Banana Pancakes (GF)
Hello there! Thank you for stopping by. Let me start off by saying once again that I have not gone Gluten-Free or Paleo and I sure as hell ain’t going Vegan but I do like to visit sometimes. So what should you be focused on when trying to improve overall health? Reducing inflammation, healing your…
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Fried Ravioli
Hey there! I see my parents almost every Sunday evening and we usually go to Gigi’s, a local pizza joint here in the West Island. However, on this occasion we ate at my place. I hate breaking routine. Especially when it means I gotta do dishes on a Sunday night…ESPECIALLY when it means I gotta miss out…
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Warm Chickpea Salad with Fresh Mint & Yogurt
I just got the second cookbook from the Bakopoulos sisters called “Back to the Beginning” and I could not be more psyched to dive in! Their first cookbook, Around the Greek Table is my #1 , all time favourite cookbook! The recipes are fantastic , easy to follow and the results will be as…
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Stephanie’s Pasta e Fagioli
Hey there! You will love my very easy recipe for Pasta e Fagioli. It’s so delicious most notably because of the garlic, creaminess of the white kidney beans and parmesan cheese. Its rustic looking, made with unevenly broken spaghetti, and when you eat it, it feels like a warm hug. There’s just nothing like it for me. It seems…
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Dad’s Chickpeas and Pasta
Hello all, All my life, my dad made chickpeas in one form or another – either on their own, boiled in seasoned water or with pasta. I wouldn’t even touch it; it just didn’t appeal to me but now I realize what I’ve been missing all these years! He gave me a small bowl for…
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Nonna Rosina’s Ciambotta; Potato and Zucchini Stew with Poached Egg
Nonna Rosina’s Ciambotta or Potato & Zucchini Stew with Poached egg Ciambotta is a classic peasant dish from the province of Potenza in southern Italy. Growing up I loved to tear the thick crusty bread apart and dip it into the stew, breaking open the poached egg and letting the yolk run into the dish….
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April’s Swiss Chard with Olive Oil
Hey there! Following my last post about the too-amazing-for-words Tunnel of Fudge cake, I felt I needed to go lighter in this one….a lot lighter. So, I made April Bloomfield’s super simple Swiss Chard with Olive oil. She is my new favourite chef. The leaves were tender and glistening. The fresh garlic and fruity olive oil flavours…
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Bay House Mashed Green Plantains
Hey there! Being of Italian descent, this post sure feels like it comes out of left field for me. Previous thoughts : Plantains…we don’t eat them. We just know that they look like bananas but cannot be eaten as such. We also know that many people from different backgrounds buy them but …”What do they do with them?”, I’d wonder….
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Eggplant and White Bean “Meatballs”
Hey there! Let me start off by saying this is not a betrayal of classic meatballs. These beauties are truly and undeniably delicious, plus they’re easy to make. You won’t miss the meat, I promise. These eggplant and white bean ‘meatballs’ are baked full of deliciousness – with grated Pecorino Romano cheese, fragrant pressed garlic and loads…
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On the grid – Savoury Vegetable Waffles
I needed the waffles to be square, you understand? SQUARE. with deep pockets! Other shapes are for fake waffles, everybody knows that.
