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This rather exotic sounding recipe – a tangine is the name of food and of the container it is baked in – is a the kind of slow cooked dish that is so perfect for entertaining. You don’t need … Continue reading
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DOUBLE DOUBLE GINGER CRACKLE COOKIES
Summers at Emma Lake. It was filled with halcyon days of swimming, building rafts and dreaming the hours away. We lived completely off the grid. We chopped wood , pumped water and lit oil lamps to chase away the dark. … Continue reading
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ALMOST OREO COOKIES . . . CHOCOLATE CREME SANDWICHES
This is not the Oreo cookie of your childhood. It’s a little less crisp, a whisper less sweet. The squishy filling is a sophisticated, buttery vanilla flavoured layer of wonderfulness. The cookie is rich and dark and seductive. CHOCOLATE CREME … Continue reading
OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
There are some who say the ultimate sweet treat is cookies and milk. Make the cookie crispy rich with the perfect amount of old fashioned oatmeal, bittersweet and milk chocolate chips and you have the oatmeal chocolate chip cookie that … Continue reading
TOMATO BASIL SOUP …ROXY’S BISTRO’S SIGNATURE SOUP
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Of all the soups we made at ROXY’S BISTRO in Regina, tomato basil soup was our favourite. This soup tastes like the glorious days of summer. The tomatoes enhanced with basil and a whisper of oregano. The very … Continue reading
GROWN-UP GINGERSNAPS
When you are in the midst of an Arctic Vortex, you stay home and bake. You admire the brittle blue skies etched with sugar sparkling snow covered mountains, but from your kitchen window. This cold weather cookie comes together quickly … Continue reading
THE COFFEE CAKE OF THE CHRISTMAS SEASON . . . CRANBERRY ORANGE WITH STREUSEL CRUMB TOPPING
This is not your quiet, little every day coffee cake. This is a coffee cake with attitude. The cake is rich with sour cream and enhanced with the brilliant, tart flavour of cranberries. There is the important streusel crumb topping. … Continue reading
FREEZER ENGLISH CUCUMBER PICKS . . . QUICK AND SIMPLE TO MAKE
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Slender, delicate, refreshing English cucumbers. Beloved in cucumber sandwiches. Adored in Salads. Admired in pickles. And wonderful lavished on burgers. English cucumbers piled in glorious green pyramids at the vegetable markets. I fill my shopping basket with them. Cucumbers … Continue reading
RHUBARB CRUMB CAKE WITH SUMAC CRUMB . . . THE PERFECT SNACKING CAKE
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I walk to the garden past hedges heavy with fragrant with wild roses and awash with cow parsley. Blackbirds, wrens, robins and song thrushes fill the air with glorious song. The early morning sun catches glittering drops of dew suspended … Continue reading
CHOCOLATEY CHOCOLATE CAKE . . . WITH BUTTERCREAM FLUFFY FROSTING
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This rich,dense, spectacularly chocolate cake in every is my absolute favorite of all cakes. It has a delicate moist crumb and the dream-like chocolate buttercream frosting stays light and fluffy to the very last slice. This is the cake … Continue reading
