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Curried Coconut Chicken Vegetable Soup

Healthy.  Delicious.  Satisfying.  Orange.    Souper Sunday has arrived early this month...you're welcome!  Here's a goodun' for ya.  Chock full of veggies galore (you've got carrots, cauliflower,...

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Classic Spinach Dip in Bread Bowl

People have asked me why I don't have a spinach dip recipe on my blog.  Well, it's because I use the same spinach dip recipe that you probably already have the recipe for.  It's the one that your mom...

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Mini Peppers Stuffed With Goat Cheese and Asparagus

Hurry and make this, while asparagus is still cheap in the stores!I needed a healthy appetizer for when my sister-in-laws came over for some wine the other night.  I had a bag of mini bell peppers, a...

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Creamy Bacon and Leek Pasta

My family likes to cook.  So recently when we went away for a nice relaxing three-day weekend in Birch Bay just over the US border from our place, we decided to have a pasta throwdown.  Because why...

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Golf Themed Cake

I love my dad.  So much.  Enough to learn how to frost a cake with a cake decorating tip for his retirement party last year.  Which is something that I could never, ever, be great at.  I've just never...

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Garlic Scape Pesto

Garlic Scape PestoWarning:  For garlic lovers only...all others beware the deliciousness!!!It's garlic scape season again!!!!!!  Run, don't walk, to your nearest farmer's market and pick up some of...

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'Mini' Greek Salad (Humour Me!)

This salad is perfect for the heat wave (mid-30 C / high 90-F!) that we are currently simultaneously loving and complaining about at the same time.  It's fresh, refreshing, healthy, and cool. It's also...

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Mango and Black Bean Quinoa Salad

"You can't have the Mango!" - Mango, SNLI feel like I already know the answer to this question, but does anyone else think of Mango, the short-lived mid-90's Chris Kattan character from SNL, whenever...

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Slow Cooker Philippine Pork Stew

Ok, this one comes VERY Hubby approved and recommended.  He seems to throw this comment out kind of often, but apparently this was the, 'best meal this year.'  Then I reminded him he said that about a...

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Easy Refried Bean Soup

Do you ever buy an entire case of refried beans at a time from Costco?   Ha ha, yeah, me neither obviously! *looks awkwardly at floor.* But if you have, this is a good soup for you to use them up.This...

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Mom's 'Fall Off The Bone' Oven-Baked BBQ Pork Ribs

Even writing this blog post has me salivating.Seriously!These oven-baked BBQ pork ribs are one of my favourite things to walk into my parents' house for Sunday dinner and smell cooking away in the...

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Alex's Brussels Sprouts Salad with Bacon, Avocado, and Lemony Dijon Dressing

I dare you to try this salad and still tell me that Brussels sprouts are not your thing...I remember when Brussels sprouts were the reject side dish at my family's holiday dinner.  That is for everyone...

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Land of Nod Cinnamon Buns

Happy New Year!!Horrible picture.  Buns were a touch less glazed than normal, on account of me spilling half the butter on the floor at 4am and not replacing it with new butter (since it was 4am)....

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Hamburger Soup

Mmmmm...lately it's just all comfort food all the time on this blog!This is another family favourite...Best of Bridge's delicious Hamburger Soup!  This is one of my mom's best-loved recipes, and...

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The Hubby's Smoked Salmon

The Hubby's first blog recipe, and of course it's one for the BBQ.  My apologies to my Canadian readers who don't live on the west coast, but out here it's barbeque season all year long baby!Hubs has...

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Slow Cooker Creamy Santa Fe Chicken

Oh, I looooooooove it when you don't have to pre-cook the ingredients going into the slow cooker before throwing them into the slow cooker!  This recipe does just that.  No browning, sautéing, or...

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Prawn and Andouille Sausage Gumbo

Ever since our first visit to New Orleans for our honeymoon in 2010, The Hubby has been asking me to recreate in our kitchen the delicious gumbo that we ate there.  He even begrudingly approved the...

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Brussels Sprouts Caesar Salad

The Hubby and I got a little bit obsessed with the Brussels Sprouts and Bacon Salad that we were hitting pretty hard around Christmas-time.  So I decided to take the peeled Brussels Sprouts idea and...

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Vegetarian Yam and Black Bean Stew

It's been nice and warm in Western Canada, but on the eastern part of the country they haven't been so lucky.  Why must it unfairly snow all the way into April over on the east coast, while on the west...

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Kale, Shrimp, and Chickpea Pitas

So I'm officially in Detox Mode 3000.Actually make that 6000.Actually let's amend that to 2000 (I forgot that I drank a bottle of wine last night).First a trip to San Francisco to visit an old gal pal...

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