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Quickles

If you missed quick pickles on Breakfast TV this morning, here’s what you missed…. We made Pear and clove, Peach and ginger, Prune and spices, Sweet peppers and rosemary. Quick pickles are a fast way to get pickle flavour without having to break out your grannies rusty canning equipment. These are not a true preserving [...]

Calgary Food Blogger Bake sale

There’s a bake sale this weekend in Calgary at 148 10 Ave NW (Old Ant Hill Fabrics building). Sat, June 19th 10am-6pm and Sun, June 20th from 11am-5pm. Not only will you be able to pick up some primo baked goodies, you’ll also be able to meet some of your favourite local Calgarian Food bloggers as [...]

Adorable baby Arugula

When you first hold your own little bouncing bundle of joyous baby arugula you’ll be brimming with pride. The peppery, spirited, tender young leaves will fill your heart. Enjoy baby arugula while it’s young, because before you know it the leaves will get tough, tasteless, demanding, resentful, spiteful, spoiled, hormonal… youth is wasted on the [...]

Gwhack-A-Mole (x3)

Hard ones, soft ones, green ones, means ones. Avocados are popping up all over the place. These precocious little greenies are finicky and fun to eat. Your best hope to cope with these funky fruits is the bash out a big batch of guacamole and enjoy with nachos. But how do you deal with them [...]

Polenta board party!

Polenta board with braised red wine chicken, ratatouille, roasted garlic, grilled orange and gremolata linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;

bassackward boB’s Grilled Cheese Sandwich

boB’s first words were ‘moM’, ‘daD’, and ‘kayak’ which did nothing to arouse any suspicion. Even when he blurted his first sentence “So many dynamos!” nobody could have guessed at his condition. But when boB exclaimed ‘repaid!’ when he filled his diaper, his concerned parents consulted the family doctor who diagnosed him with bassackwarditis. Inspite [...]

Gold Medals

If you have been holding out for the International Olympic Committee to answer your petition to make Couch Surfing an official sport, there’s still a chance! Don’t give up your training until the last gold medal is awarded. Keep the dream alive with a round of thick cut potato gold medals with bright lemony mayonnaise. [...]

Cupid’s flaming hearts

  Cupid is far from the adorable little curly-topped chubby love-bug we know from Valentine cards. He is the love child of Venus, the goddess of love and Mars, the god of war. His singular reason for being is to fight the never-ending war on love. He knows all too well that men are from [...]

Gwhack-A-Mole

Avocados are popping up all over the place. These precocious little greenies are naturally drawn towards large sporting events like the Superbowl. Your only hope to cope with these funky fruits is the bash out a big batch of guacamole and enjoy with tortillas. If you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em … to a pulp! [...]

All or nothin’ muffin!

Waking up takes super human strength. You need an action-packed breakfast to get you up, up and away. Here is a top-secret formula to help you get up to full power with your own all-or-nothin’ muffin creation. Stick to the recipe ratio to create your own custom muffin supped-up with with all kinds of super [...]