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Cauliflower and cheddar soup with roasted grape compote and toasted pinenuts

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Julie/Julia dinner party

Last week Julie (from Dinner with Julie) decided to host a Julie/Julia Dinner party for a handful of local food bloggers. We each brought something from Mastering the Art of French Cooking that we had prepared earlier. While we feasted Julia Child tutted about her kitchen as The French Chef reruns played in the background.
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Michael Ruhlman’s Turkey Scraps…

Last week was Turkey Time down south in the US. To celebrate the Great Gobble, food-writer extraordinaire Michael Ruhlman (Ratio, Making of a Chef, French Laundry, Charcuterie, etc, etc) posted a very clever recipe for making stock with the turkey carcass, or chicken bones. I was really excited to get a chance to contribute to [...]

Evil Pumpkin Zombie soup

It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark… Evil Pumpkin Zombies!
EPZ are brought to life when an evil Halloween spirit enters a carved pumpkin and awakens an unnaturally evil appetite for candy. The pumpkins will roll around attacking anyone for their candy!
If you are threatened by an EPZ, you will need to [...]

chili served…

Well the final results are in for the chili cookoff and the winner is…

Congratulations ROB COTE, running back for the Calgary Stampeders
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chili cookoff!

Tomorrow is the showdown for the chili cookoff!
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Chili con carnivore

Just like football, a chili cookoff is 62% mental, 22% physical and 13% intensity and 1% creativity.
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lobster crème brulée

It doesn’t matter if you are on a boat surrounded by topless models sporting the glasses Tom Cruise wore in Top Gun. You could be deep sea cruising on your way to your own tropical island to spend the rest of your days enjoying the finest things life has to offer, but until you’ve had lobster [...]

MBS- yummy bunny poop soup

 
This week’s mystery bluebox contained:
Carrots (big), carrots (baby), beets, grapefruit, rainbow chard, arugula, lemons, a mango and some collard greens  

easy carrot soup with stewed raisins and spiced yogurt
There is only one way to use up loads of carrots… carrot soup. And you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the little raisins that look like adorable bunny [...]

Yo Momma’s a sloppy, boozey tart

Yo Momma is the hit of every social gathering whether it’s Christmas, a wedding or a picnic. She is the first one to open the wine and the last one to finish it. When yo momma is around at least you know the wine doesn’t get wasted even if she does.
Since tears are natures way [...]