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Lemon Meringue Cake from Duchess Bake Shop Cookbook- Celebrating Birthdays!
Lemon meringue cake with "Happy Birthday" cake topper from Justine MaJoin me in celebrating hubby's birthday today! I am impressed myself that I baked this cake! I decided that this year I would bake Dan a cake (last year I made profiteroles-by hand)! Now, not just any cake, but a cake from...
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Lemon meringue cake with "Happy Birthday" cake topper from Justine MaJoin me in celebrating hubby's birthday today! I am impressed myself that I baked this cake! I decided that this year I would bake Dan a cake (last year I made profiteroles-by hand)! Now, not just any cake, but a cake from...
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Fresh-Off-the-Cob Corn Chowder - Cooking from Every Day Dorie Cookbook
After a brief hiatus, I am once again joining Cook the Book Fridays group through cooking through Dorie Greenspan's Every Day Dorie. This time it is a fresh corn off the cob chowder. Over the past few months I have increasingly loved going to Farm Boy for all of our groceries; especially fre...
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After a brief hiatus, I am once again joining Cook the Book Fridays group through cooking through Dorie Greenspan's Every Day Dorie. This time it is a fresh corn off the cob chowder. Over the past few months I have increasingly loved going to Farm Boy for all of our groceries; especially fre...
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Purple Murple Macarons with Blueberry Buttercream
A 4 Tier of Blueberry macaronsOriginally for these macaron shells, I was aiming for more of a pastel purple shell. Instead, they came out slightly on the dark purple side. Looks like I was a bit heavy handed on the purple gel food colouring. I had just bought it and was super excited to use it.If...
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A 4 Tier of Blueberry macaronsOriginally for these macaron shells, I was aiming for more of a pastel purple shell. Instead, they came out slightly on the dark purple side. Looks like I was a bit heavy handed on the purple gel food colouring. I had just bought it and was super excited to use it.If...
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Tacos for Today, Tomorrow, Any Day - Paprika-Garlic Shrimp Tacos Recipe with Homemade Corn Tortillas
Recipe for Paprika-Garlic Shrimp TacosAssembled ingredients for Paprika-Garlic Shrimp Tacos Why wait for Taco Tuesday, when you can have tacos today? Or even tomorrow? It has been pretty hot here in Ottawa, so I have been leaning towards meals with limited oven or stove time. So even though ...
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Recipe for Paprika-Garlic Shrimp TacosAssembled ingredients for Paprika-Garlic Shrimp Tacos Why wait for Taco Tuesday, when you can have tacos today? Or even tomorrow? It has been pretty hot here in Ottawa, so I have been leaning towards meals with limited oven or stove time. So even though ...
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Cook the Book Fridays - Mushroom Bacon Galette from Every Day Dorie
Wow, time is flying by. Sorry that I have been neglecting the blogging part lately, though, rest assured I am still doing a lot of baking and recipe testing over on Instagram. After this post, I hope to work on a macaron post! I have been spending some time working on my photography ski...
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Wow, time is flying by. Sorry that I have been neglecting the blogging part lately, though, rest assured I am still doing a lot of baking and recipe testing over on Instagram. After this post, I hope to work on a macaron post! I have been spending some time working on my photography ski...
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Fresh Green Spring Soup from Every Day Dorie - Cook the Book Fridays
Refreshing Green Spring SoupWow, is time flying by fast or what? I can't believe it is already May, which means it is time for another Cook the Book Fridays following Dorie Greenspan's Every Day Dorie Cookbook. This week brings us to page 80 and her Green-As-Spring Soup. I was seriously hopi...
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Refreshing Green Spring SoupWow, is time flying by fast or what? I can't believe it is already May, which means it is time for another Cook the Book Fridays following Dorie Greenspan's Every Day Dorie Cookbook. This week brings us to page 80 and her Green-As-Spring Soup. I was seriously hopi...
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Trusty Crispy yet Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies Recipe
My Crispy yet Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies RecipeOatmeal Cookies. For me, cookies aren't the same unless they have chocolate - thus oatmeal must always be followed with chocolate! Looking back at the blog I do have an oatmeal, chocolate chip & raisin recipe from 2010(!) and a rec...
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My Crispy yet Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies RecipeOatmeal Cookies. For me, cookies aren't the same unless they have chocolate - thus oatmeal must always be followed with chocolate! Looking back at the blog I do have an oatmeal, chocolate chip & raisin recipe from 2010(!) and a rec...
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Easy Salmon Burgers from Every Day Dorie - Cook the Book Fridays
Hello, it is Cook the Book Fridays! What does this mean? It means that I get to show you some process photos for a recipe from Dorie Greenspan's Everyday Dorie. This month brings us to page 174 from the cookbook - Salmon Burgers.Last week, after my clay class I was walking around an area in ...
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Hello, it is Cook the Book Fridays! What does this mean? It means that I get to show you some process photos for a recipe from Dorie Greenspan's Everyday Dorie. This month brings us to page 174 from the cookbook - Salmon Burgers.Last week, after my clay class I was walking around an area in ...
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Small Batch DIY Homemade Kimchi Recipe
It seems that I have fallen in love with having kimchi in our fridge. There are so many uses for kimchi including as a side to your main course, on noodles or kimchi fried rice of course! As time has progressed, I decided that I really wanted to make my own kimchi. When I asked the Korean ladies ...
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It seems that I have fallen in love with having kimchi in our fridge. There are so many uses for kimchi including as a side to your main course, on noodles or kimchi fried rice of course! As time has progressed, I decided that I really wanted to make my own kimchi. When I asked the Korean ladies ...
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Potato Tourte from Everyday Dorie - Cook the Book Fridays
I finally managed to catch up with everyone else participating cook the book Fridays - Every Day Dorie. The recipe this time is Dorie Greenspan's Potato Tourte on page 220. I must say that I did a lot of walking to gather all the ingredients for this recipe! Our friends helped us with t...
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I finally managed to catch up with everyone else participating cook the book Fridays - Every Day Dorie. The recipe this time is Dorie Greenspan's Potato Tourte on page 220. I must say that I did a lot of walking to gather all the ingredients for this recipe! Our friends helped us with t...
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Presdelicious - La Roma on Preston Street in Ottawa
Having called Ottawa home for the past few weeks, I have been on the look out for different food events. I was happy to find out that there was one on Preston Street in Little Italy called Presdelicious. Similar to other food festivals (such as Winterlicious in Toronto and Downtown Di...
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Having called Ottawa home for the past few weeks, I have been on the look out for different food events. I was happy to find out that there was one on Preston Street in Little Italy called Presdelicious. Similar to other food festivals (such as Winterlicious in Toronto and Downtown Di...
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Chocolate Macarons - Macaron Mashup for Winter
It seems to me that it has been a while since I have been able to blog about my macaron journey. The last macarons I blogged about for macaron mashup were my Apple Spice Caramel Macarons. Between packing up things in Edmonton for the move to Ottawa and everything in between, life got a tad b...
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It seems to me that it has been a while since I have been able to blog about my macaron journey. The last macarons I blogged about for macaron mashup were my Apple Spice Caramel Macarons. Between packing up things in Edmonton for the move to Ottawa and everything in between, life got a tad b...
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5 Things to do in Ottawa in February
Well, it's already been two weeks that I have been in Ottawa. This past weekend, one of our good friends from Edmonton came to visit us in Ottawa and it just so happened to be the Family Day long Weekend, so we checked out a few places around Ottawa.One - The Glebe An area that we explored w...
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Well, it's already been two weeks that I have been in Ottawa. This past weekend, one of our good friends from Edmonton came to visit us in Ottawa and it just so happened to be the Family Day long Weekend, so we checked out a few places around Ottawa.One - The Glebe An area that we explored w...
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Week One in Ottawa & Food Notes February 15, 2019
Hello food blog world! It's been some time that I've had the chance to do some blogging. With that being said, I am truly hoping to be able to jump right back in with recipe creating & testing, macaron making, cookbook reviews all while exploring the city of Ottawa! Yup, that's right. I moved...
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Hello food blog world! It's been some time that I've had the chance to do some blogging. With that being said, I am truly hoping to be able to jump right back in with recipe creating & testing, macaron making, cookbook reviews all while exploring the city of Ottawa! Yup, that's right. I moved...
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Cook the Book Fridays: Maple Syrup & Mustard Brussels Sprouts from Everyday Dorie
Here we are! Another Cook the Book Fridays post! Wow the week went by so fast! This week's Cook the Book from Dorie Greenspan's Everyday Dorie recipe is her Maple-Syrup-and-Mustard Brussels Sprouts.I should probably note that I am in fact snacking on this exact dish as I write up this b...
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Here we are! Another Cook the Book Fridays post! Wow the week went by so fast! This week's Cook the Book from Dorie Greenspan's Everyday Dorie recipe is her Maple-Syrup-and-Mustard Brussels Sprouts.I should probably note that I am in fact snacking on this exact dish as I write up this b...
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