Category: Quick and Easy

  • Apple Dutch Baby {gluten-free}

    Apple Dutch Baby {gluten-free}

    I’ve made regular wheat flour versions of Apple Dutch Baby recipes many times, but now I like to try to use gluten-free flours whenever I can. Experimenting with different gluten-free flours, adding different starches, etc. has led me to the conclusion that with this recipe, almost anything goes.

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  • Chocolate Hazelnut Sauce

    Chocolate Hazelnut Sauce

    I’ve made this sauce so many times, it doesn’t really even seem like a recipe…but it’s convenient to know how to make an easy chocolate hazelnut sauce. I came up with this recipe while trying to recreate my favourite bistro crêpe (strawberries with chocolate-hazelnut sauce). I had started out using a store-bought chocolate-hazelnut spread, but…

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  • Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies

    Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookies

    The addictive chewy ginger molasses cookie recipe…

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  • Old-Fashioned Stew

    Old-Fashioned Stew

    The cooler days and scent of fall in the air has me craving warm, comforting dishes, like stew.  I was curious about the origins of what we think of as “stew”, as I’m sure this differs from place to place and family to family.  While researching the origins of the usual ingredients of stews, typically…

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  • Coconut Milk

    Coconut Milk

    Coconut milk is one of the easiest milks to make, is very inexpensive, and best of all, tastes like the tropics.  The coconut meat does not have to be soaked overnight, so making coconut milk doesn’t take as much planning as the other nut milks, which is nice if you’ve forgotten you need milk.  

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  • Quick and Easy Tomato Sauce

    Quick and Easy Tomato Sauce

    This easy tomato sauce has the pure taste of fresh tomatoes and toasty garlic, and it only takes a few minutes to make.

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  • Quick and Easy Salmon Cream Pasta

    Quick and Easy Salmon Cream Pasta

    Our local grocery store had a great deal on fresh wild Sockeye salmon the other day, so we bought a good-sized fillet to have for supper.  We had some leftover, so the following night, I threw together this really simple, but very tasty, creamy pasta sauce using the cooked salmon.  You could use fresh salmon,…

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  • Organic Freshly Squeezed Lemonade

    Organic Freshly Squeezed Lemonade

    Homemade lemonade tastes so much better than the pre-made canned or bottled kind, and when you make your own, you can adjust the sweetness to exactly how you like it.

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