Quick Turkey Liver Paté

We roasted a turkey for Christmas day and I had the liver left over – not much, but I thought…hmmm, wouldn’t it make a lovely amuse bouches? Just a tasty-taster…I adapted a recipe from Epicurious for chicken liver paté
Yield: Makes about 1/4 cup
Ingredients

1 turkey liver
1 tsp butter, room temperature
2 tbsp minced onion
1 tbsp mirin (Japanese [...]

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Christmas Eve’s morning and there is more snow!

Thank goodness they are predicting rain this evening, otherwise we wouldn’t know where to put any more snow!

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And there is MORE snow!

Just to get us all into the Christmas spirit…we are having another 10 cm of snow dumped on us tonight…that is 30 cm since Friday! Oh joy!
Here are the photos from Sunday morning:

Hopefully we’re at the end of this storm system…we really need Paul and T to arrive safely and on time!
Happy holidays!

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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…OK, enough already

It’s Saturday morning and we just experienced the first of three storm systems coming through southern Ontario. It snowed non-stop since Friday at seven in the morning. We’ve shoveled 3 times to try to keep on top of it. It was brutal but it IS Canada and it IS December so what they heck were [...]

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Countdown to Doran Weekend December 2008

Countdown Clock
The Doran’s are coming, the Doran’s are coming! It won’t be for New Year’s but then again, it’s better than nothing! Our crazy world-travelling friends are travelling to the big smoke, whirl-wind style as usual, arriving Friday around lunch-time and leaving Sunday around 7pm! We’re really looking forward to our ‘Doran Fix’
The menu:
Friday [...]

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Cheese Puffs (easy and delicious)

These little gems make a lovely hors d’oeuvres on their own, or stuffed…from The Classics LCBO special edition. We’re taking them as a hostess gift tonight! Makes about 40 little bite_sized puffs!

1 cup water
1/4 cup butter
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup all purpose flour
3 eggs
1 cup grated Gruyere Cheese
1/4 cup grated Parmesan Cheese

Preheat oven to 400F.
Place water, [...]

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Christmas Baking 2008 revised

I have now baked about 11 items, and am officially announcing that I am tired of baking!

Bargain Basement Barb’s Chocolate Chip Cookie
Peanut Butter Bars (new)
Lauren’s Spice Cookies (new)
Donkey Ears
Chocolate Mint Hershey Kiss Cookies
Peppermint Bark
2-Bite Chewy Chocolate Brownies (new)
2-Bite Butterscotch Blondies (new)
Namaimo Bars (new) – I may not make this

Anzac Biscuits
Butterscotchy Almond Bars (new)

I will be [...]

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2-Bite Butterscotch Blondies

From the Five Roses Flour cookbook (Yield: 16-5 cm (2″) squares or about 30 mini muffin blondies). These are chewy and tasty, although not low in calories, but then again, it IS Christmas!

Ingredients

¾ cup(s) Five Roses All Purpose Flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp alt
¼ cup butter or margarine
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg, slightly [...]

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No Knead Bread (from the Wednesday Chef)

Not one to give up too easily, I am trying another bread, not abandoning my wild yeast starter, but putting it on hold. I am looking for a chewy, sourdoughy texture and I came across the recipe below (in fact, what started me on this wild journey in the first place was Jim Lahey’s no [...]

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2-Bite Chocolate Brownies (not as bad for you as normal brownies)

This recipe dates back to the mid-nineties from the Toronto Star. My mom found it, tried it and loved it back then, and I have been making them ever since! They are relatively low in fat, but high in sugar (well, they ARE brownies, what did you think?) I believe the article states they are [...]

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