Happy Holidays *burp*

Fabulous family friend Meredith helping to prepare just one of our amazing feasts over the holidays. Seriously, check out all that chicken! I estimate that during the past month (and much of this has been over the past ten days) I have consumed approximately four litres of eggnog, one dozen hot buttered rums, two dozen [...]

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Recipe Thursday: Plum Platz

What a week! Two more classes under my belt, my and Josh’s third wedding anniversary (and ten years together – we celebrated by going out for free-range wings at Habit, which I would totally recommend – get the Moroccan Spiced ones!), ongoing closet renovation and de-cluttering, meeting a few writing deadlines… but no energy to [...]

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Sher’s Autumn Soup

For the fall equinox I made my mum Sher’s famous Autumn Soup recipe, and I also made a Mennonite favourite for dessert, Plum Platz. I’ll share that recipe next week. The making of a big, steaming pot of this delicious soup was always a glorious herald of fall in the Goerzen house when I was [...]

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Recipe Thursday: Whole Wheat Pizza Crust

I’ve made pizza a few times the past two or three weeks, but we just gobbled it right up and I forgot to take photos of it. So, I drew one instead. It doesn’t look nearly as appetizing as this recipe actually is, though. Actually, it doesn’t look very appetizing at all. It looks more [...]

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Recipe Thursday: Summer Drinks, Alcoholic & Non

Rather than featuring a recipe per se, I thought I’d talk summery drinks today – my favourite libations that keep me hydrated and all sauced up during those hot days. – Belgian raspberry beer & Fruli strawberry beer (found in the Single Serve Beer section of our local liquor store) – Prosecco – Fresca, grenadine [...]

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Recipe Thursday: Grilled Naan

Naan makin’ station I’ve been going through an obsession lately with all things doughy and otherwise bready. A few weeks ago, while putting together a curry, I was suddenly gripped with the desire to try making some naan. I found this recipe at allrecipes.com, and it’s delicious – grilling it is so much fun. I [...]

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Recipe Thursday: Oatmeal Cake with Penuche Frosting

Before we get to the recipe… I’ll be away from this space until next Wednesday, as I’ll be vacationing with my sisters, dad and stepmum, et. al.. Yippee skippy, I am looking forward to eating, drinking, fishing, swimming (or maybe it’ll be too cold) in the mountains and forests of our fair province. June is [...]

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Recipe Thursday: The Best Oatmeal, Raisin & Chocolate Chip Cookies

Amazingly, I did not eat this cookie following the photo shoot. I put it right back in the cookie jar, which is distinctly uncharacteristic of me. Usually I have absolutely no willpower whatsoever. Must be the Griffonia I’ve been taking to curb late night food cravings. Hands down, this is the best oatmeal cookies recipe [...]

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Recipe Thursday: Edith Pilaf

My sous chef Joshua, so ably stirring! Okay, so it’s not a Laura Calder recipe this time, but it is somewhat French inspired (mainly because I just wanted to use the name “Edith Pilaf”!). Here’s an easy, quick little pilaf that tastes lovely with panko-breaded sole and a spring greens/cucumber/strawberry salad (well, that’s what we [...]

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Recipe Thursday & This Moment

Since our little family has just recently returned from a wonderful camping trip near Tofino (Keaton’s an excellent little outdoorsman, even with an ear infection!), and we’re still shaking the sand out of our shoes and dealing with the laundry piles, I figure, why not combine my Thursday and Friday blogging rituals in one fell [...]

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