No I’m not a huge country music fan, but when I heard that Shania Twain defended poutine as “Canadian comfort food” in response to Martha Stewart calling it “junk food,” the girl went up a notch or two in my book. Shania was a guest chef on Martha’s daytime talk show when this happened just [...]
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Experiments in Yogurt
This week I successfully made yogurt at home. I’m really blown away that it worked! Packing school lunches several times a week got me thinking about how much the kids love yogurt, but bemoaning how expensive it is. One solution was to use my strawberry jam mixed with plain yogurt scooped from the large containers [...]
Zoltan’s Guacamole
2 avocados2 cloves garlic, choppedthe juice of ½ of one lemonsmall onion, minced1 tomato, seeded and dicedsalt and pepper to taste Scoop out avocados. Add garlic, squeeze lemon, and mash until smooth. Add tomato. Stir, then season to taste. Cover if not serving immediately! Notes:I frequently half this recipe, depending on how loud the tummy [...]
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cecilia: "just omit the meat from your bean meals, like meatless chilli and spaghetti. we love lentils here, lentil soup, lentil curry over rice… I’ll put some more thought into this." (read)
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