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How to Roast Figs

How to Roast Figs

Roasting figs is trivially easy, a hot oven and a clean casserole dish and you are halfway there.

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Grilled Tuna with Soy and Chives Recipe

Grilled Tuna with Soy and Chives Recipe

This is perhaps the quickest appetizer ever. The tuna grills for only a minute to keep it nice and rare.

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Grilled Shrimp with Lime and Cilantro

Grilled Shrimp with Lime and Cilantro

An easy shrimp appetizer recipe, marinated in ginger, lime and cilantro and quickly grilled.

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Hot Chevre, Spinach and Artichoke Dip Recipe

Hot Chevre, Spinach and Artichoke Dip Recipe

A reinvention of the classic Hot Spinach and Artichoke Dip with more vegetable and lots of creamy goat cheese. Better for the lips and the hips.

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Spinach Hummus Recipe

Spinach Hummus Recipe

How pretty is this hummus recipe which uses fresh spinach? A great way to get a bit more greens in your diet and to use up that spinach which is sitting in your fridge.

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Brie with Caramelized Pears and Balsamic Vinegar

Brie with Caramelized Pears and Balsamic Vinegar

An amazing way to fancy up a cheese appetizer. Get some pears nice and soft, then dress them up with sharp balsamic and fresh oregano before dumping the delicious mixture over some warm brie or Camembert.

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Tzatziki Recipe

Tzatziki Recipe

Tangy and garlicky, this Greek tzatziki dip recipe will have you reaching for warm pita bread.

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Baba Ganoush Recipe

Baba Ganoush Recipe

Baba Ganoush is a delicious and healthy middle eastern eggplant dip or side to a fabulous meal of falafel, hummus, tabouli and pita.

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Sausage and Cheddar Bites Recipe

Sausage and Cheddar Bites Recipe

These easy little holiday appetizers are very popular under the title Bisquick Sausage Balls. I was on twitter last week when Katie Lee Joel twittered about them being a favorite of hers and I thought they would be a great quick fix. I find it so easy to make sweets at the holidays, but am [...]

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Broad Bean "Guacamole" Recipe

Broad Bean "Guacamole" Recipe

Fresh shelling, or broad beans, are in season from mid to late summer every year. I was able to pick up this bunch fresh from the farmers market, for no other reason then to try something new. Shelling them was very easy, you want to remove the beans from the pod, and to do this [...]

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White Bean, Artichoke, Goat Cheese, and Basil Hummus Recipe

White Bean, Artichoke, Goat Cheese, and Basil Hummus Recipe

Do you have a dish you whip up when you know people are coming over for a drink at the last minute? Or, not even the last minute, but maybe you aren’t very organized? For me, it is always a fancy hummus or dip. With a well stocked pantry you can create a delicious dip [...]

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Daring Baker's on Crack

Daring Baker's on Crack

This month the Darings Bakers had their first ever vegan challenge and it was a really fun one! The cracker bread was cheap and easy to make and made just enough for two. Plus I had never made crackers before. I covered mine with rows of cumin, salt, and rosemary and they went over really [...]

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Day 1: Mussels in White Wine and Japanese Rare Tuna

Day 1: Mussels in White Wine and Japanese Rare Tuna

Yesterday was a near perfect day. So simple but oh so good. In the morning we went to the local farmers market and picked up some tomatoes, beets, squash and fennel as well as some local short ribs and a beef roast. Then we lunched in the sun with beers and burgers. After lunch it [...]

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Beet and Potato Roesti Recipe

Beet and Potato Roesti Recipe

It’s too hot to cook this, it really is, but it was ohh so good anyways. I have never made a roesti before let alone a beet one but I was flipping through a Mark Bittman cookbook, which I picked up at a garage sale, when I saw the idea for a Beet Roesti. This [...]

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Simple Eggplant Spread Recipe

Simple Eggplant Spread Recipe

I seem to have fallen off the planet a bit in the last week or so, I haven’t been cooking much at all and our kitchen is a disaster which makes me want to cook even less. I actually made this last weekend and am just getting around to posting it now. Shameful. One of [...]

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Hummus Recipe

Hummus Recipe

I really was prepared to not like this hummus, or at least be unimpressed by it. This recipe comes from Cook’s Illustrated and much like a lot of their recipes makes something naturally easy much harder. I chose to make it in the first place because I bought this new camera and wanted to have [...]

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Roasted Garlic, Red Pepper, and White Bean Dip Recipe

Roasted Garlic, Red Pepper, and White Bean Dip Recipe

On girls nights one of our habits is to make dip and eat at least one loaf of bread with it. Usually the dip is made by S, starts with a log of goat cheese and is fabulously sinful. Since we are all on diets for holiday time tropical vacations I tried to change it [...]

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Mixed Bean and Goat Cheese Dip Recipe

Mixed Bean and Goat Cheese Dip Recipe

My friend Sarah is extremely adept at her dips. She throws something together without measuring and it is always super fantastic. I watched her do it this past weekend using only what was available and it was pretty impressive. I would never have put a can of mixed beans in, but it was great! Here [...]

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Prawns with Jalapenos and White Wine Recipe

Prawns with Jalapenos and White Wine Recipe

I am back from vacation, and what a great week it was. I really got the chance to appreciate some of the fabulous food items that come out of British Columbia. It is with this inspiration that I post tonight’s recipe featuring BC spot prawns, wild and fresh from the waters off of the BC [...]

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Jamaican Patties Recipe

Jamaican Patties Recipe

A delicious recipe for Jamaican patties from scratch. A satisfying homemade snack from the freezer.

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