Category: Cooking
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The Creamiest Mac and Cheese
I discovered another one pot wonder pasta dish – the creamiest mac and cheese you can ever imagine! This stuff is so delicious, so easy to make, and the best part – even my kidlets would eat it!! All I did was pour 3 cups of macaroni noodles (I used gluten free macaroni noodles), 2…
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Roasted Cauliflower and Sweet Potato
Similar to many of my other teacher-colleagues around BC, I am on spring break – same as my children. So because I can get home earlier than my wife, I get to spend a little more time in the kitchen. Unlike Vancouver real estate, the price of cauliflower has dropped from “stupid” pricing to approximately…
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Chopped Challenge NWSS
Thursday afternoon I was invited to be a judge on the NWSS Chopped Challenge for a group of grade 9 students. And let me begin by saying that although some of the dishes were not great, the attitude, the energy, and the respect that the students showed to the food was certainly inspiring. The students…
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A Super Quick and Healthy Breakfast
My One Pot Pasta was easy but this quick and healthy breakfast one is even easier! First, I cracked two eggs into a mug! As a side note, notice how the egg yolks are such different colours? I chopped up a small piece of cheddar cheese and less than a quarter cup of the leftovers…
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My One Pot Wonder Pasta Dinner
It was my night to make dinner and while I love cooking, I hate all the kitchen mess that is left after cooking. So what is better than a one pot wonder pasta dinner! One pot! I used our Paderno Dutch oven for the entire meal. I began by adding a couple tablespoons of EVOO…
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Turducken 2.0
Earlier last year I had Greg the Butcher from Meat Craft put together a sort of turducken for me. It was delicious. Around the same time I saw the local grocery store, Buy Low was advertising turduckens on sale for $80. We bought and kept one of the Buy Low turduckens in the freezer ready…
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Recipe for Potato and Leek Soup
On my Instagram and Facebook I follow people who share pictures of interesting food. My friend Paul often posts pictures of the soups he makes from vegetables he grows in his garden so I asked him to share the recipe for his favourite potato and leek soup. This is what he sent me –…
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Roasted Root Vegetables Casserole
It is now officially winter. Although the days are now getting longer, unless you live in Southern California, you are not able to get much locally grown produce (other than kale) from your garden or your green grocer. Therefore, if you want to lighten your carbon footprint, you can eat more roasted root vegetables like…
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Not Everything on the Interwebs is True
Just to reinforce your understanding that not everything you read on the internet is true, here are a couple gems for your perusal. First off, never eat a pistachio nut that hasn’t opened. Similar to mussels, if the pistachio hasn’t opened, that means it is dead inside. Don’t eat it. Another classic is the…