Peanut-Butter Granola Bars

Adapted From Martha Stewart Makes 16. Ingredients 2 large egg whites 1 cup old-fashioned oats 1/2 cup wheat germ 1/2 cup bran cereal, ground 1/4 ground flax seed 1/2 cup dried cranberries 1/2 cup sliced almonds 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup natural crunchy peanut butter or almond butter 1/2 cup Splenda brown sugar 3 tablespoons [...]

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Jim Laheys No Knead Pizza Dough – Popeye Pizza

We are now officially addicted to Jim Lahey’s no knead recipes. JT is the executioner of all of these recipes. Of course I am jealous, he has taken away my role as chief cook in the relationship, now I am the executive chef, sometimes overseeing, mostly just on the board, giving advice when asked. We [...]

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Shrove Tuesday – Pancake Tuesday

“Shrove Tuesday is a term used in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada…” We missed out on pancakes for breakfast mainly because I forgot, but we had some for dinner and they were YUM, so I thought I would share the recipe I created on the fly last night. These are slightly darker than normal pancakes [...]

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Double Chocolate, Peanutbutter brownies.

Double Chocolate, Peanut butter brownies. Makes about 9 dessert-sized brownies 1 cup all purpose flour 1 cup icing sugar 4 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder 1 tbsp instant coffee 1 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 oz (45g) semisweet chocolate chips 3 tbsp butter or margarine 1/2 cup brown sugar ( 1/4 cup Splenda Brown Sugar) 2 [...]

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Home Smoked Salmon

We’ve made this recipe many times, it’s one of our favourites! adapted from Epicurious.com we have, of course, modified it to our taste! This is one of the tastiest salmon recipes I have done so far, and each time is a HUGE success! I generally buy a large salmon fillet and serve it family style, [...]

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Leek & Potato Capuccino with Gruyère Crème

This is a small capuccino sized serving, for 5 (about 75ml per serving). Although it seems like a lot of work, this is really worth it. The flavour is incredible AND it’s totally my recipe! Inspired no less, by our dinner at Europa in Montréal on February 15 2009. 1 cup finely sliced leaks 3 [...]

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Dinner with Kim and Rob

We invited Kim and Rob over for dinner last night. He mentioned Todd and Tina bought a house (congrats you two!!) Here is the menu, recipes to follow in separate posts. Hors D’oeuvres: Fresh Figs, with Goats Cheese, Arugula wrapped in Proscuitto Amuse Bouche: Leek & Potato Capuccino with Gruyere Crème (no doubt enspired by [...]

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Toronto Yorkville Ice Fest

Friday night JT and I rode the Bullet (that’s our subway) to the Bloor-Yorkville Icefest. An easy 15 minute ride. We immerged at Cumberland and spent about 4 minutes looking at the sculptures. Now maybe there was more, but 4 mintues? They were indeed lovely, and apparently 25,000lbs of ice! That’s some ice. But 4 [...]

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Kinda-Sorta “Butter Chicken”

JT made this with the Naan for dinner last night. This is quite tasty but it’s not the ‘butter chicken’ I know. What’s different about it is that it has almonds and raisins in the recipe. It’s a lot of work, and not really worth it, so I won’t bother posting the recipe, but it [...]

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Easy Naan Bread

Naan Bread (adapted from several recipes) This recipe is only good fresh from the oven…but if you need to reheat them, try steaming them to get the chewy texture back! 1 tsp sugar 1 tsp yeast 1/3 cup warm water 1 ½ cups all purpose flour 1 tbsp olive oil 1/3 cup natural yogurt at [...]

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