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Whole Wheat Pizza Crust-Cheese Stuffed Even!

This was exciting for me. And in answer to your question, no, I don’t get out much. Things like this excite me.
I have never, ever made homemade pizza that I liked. It’s just not the same. But thanks to my mixer (who is still un-named, I can’t believe I have named my Roomba, yet my [...]

 

How To: Make The Best Buttercream Icing

I have found my icing recipe, it’s perfect and I won’t fiddle around with it any more. Promise. Ok, well maybe one day I will try adding a couple drops of lemon juice to it, to give it a little pizazz. You know me and lemon. It’s bound to happen one day that the two [...]

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How To: Make Ganache

I made ganache to go on top of some brownies that I made, and ending up not liking the brownies, but loving the ganache on top! Of course, what’s not to love….its’ chocolate and cream cooked together. There’s just no way to go wrong with ingredients like that! Ganache can be used instead of an [...]

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How To: Cook a Prime Rib Roast

Nothing is better than a perfectly cooked prime rib roast. That buttery perfection that just melts in your mouth,  slices with the barest pressure of a knife, covered in a brown gravy, with a side of mashed potatoes and greens of some sort…culinary heaven.
And since I became emboldened by the fact that I own a [...]

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How-To: Care For Your Wooden Kitchenware

When I finally invested in my wooden cutting boards, right on the package were directions on how to treat them. You need to seal them so that nothing seeps into the wood, thus destroying not only the integrity of the wood, but also soaking up germy material that will not come out. You cannot use [...]

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How-To : Chop Bacon

The topic sound so silly, but its a neat little trick that I love to share. There is nothing worse than trying to chop bacon. It’s stringy. It’s fatty. It’s a slippery little sucker when you want to take a knife to it, it moves all over the place and you can’t ever get beautiful, [...]

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How-To: Make Jiffy Berry Pie Filling

Having only some sad,  frozen blueberries one day and needing a can of blueberry pie filling, I started looking for a recipe to quickly whip up what I needed. This one is perfect, I have tested with frozen berries and it works amazing! I have also made it with  frozen Saskatoons.
Ingredients
1 cup water
1/8 cup lemon juice
3 cups fresh [...]

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