Author: Our Little Chateau
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Giant Cheesecake Recipe
The only thing I think a cheesecake lover could love more than cheese cake is a giant cheese. Which is exactly what this recipe will give you. I made this one Thanksgiving in Canada and there wasn’t a slice left. Now every winter holiday the family ask me to make one (Yes that means thanksgiving,…
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Gingerbread Cookies
It’s gingerbread cookie season!! We really like this time of here because we get to make gingerbread houses. We actually started to make gingerbread houses from scratch because lets face it the box stuff doesn’t taste that great. This is the recipe we use to make gingerbread houses and decorations for those houses which you…
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Flaxseed Hair Gel Recipe
While looking for an over the counter chemical free natural leave in hair conditioner/detangler for our toddlers curly hair I was becoming hopeless. I recently decided to start to use something to help with non-bath time hair brushing but was all out of anything I could use to make it myself. The other problem was…
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How To Grow Kiwi Plants From Store Bought Kiwis.
Spring is in the air, the last frost has come and gone, birds are singing, and the sun is shining a little longer each day. I started my seedlings a little earlier this year after learning that the growing season here is shorter than where I use to live. Which works out perfectly because now…
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Sweet And Spicy Pickled Peppers Recipe
This all started when we went to the garden center and the baby asked us to bring back something orange, which is his favourite color. We picked up orange flowers and orange peppers. The peppers ended up being very hot and so I decided to pickle the first batch of them. Ingredients Enough Peppers To…
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Meringue Cookies Recipe
Meringue cookies are a quick and easy treat to make when you don’t have a lot of time. I know people say they are hard but they aren’t really. If you use a mixer and room temperature ingredients you can whip up a batch or two really fast. I remember a few years back my…
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How to Grow Store Bought Garlic In Your Garden.
We like to grow garlic in a garden for a few reasons. The biggest reason that we like to grow garlic is that we know it is organic an wasn’t sprayed with chemicals. We also like to use the garlic greens in cooking, and also we just love gardening. There are more reasons but those…
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Non-Spicy Kid Friendly Mint Chutney Recipe
Mint Chutney is one of those things at our little chateau that we have a love hate relationship with. The adults love it and the kids want to love it but it’s so spicy for them sometimes. My oldest loved mint chutney as a toddler but we would have to water it down so it…
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Chocolate Chocolate Chip Scones Recipe
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Scones is something I came up with when we lived in Canada. When I asked everyone what they wanted for Sunday brunch they all said something chocolate. They like to make up food challenges for me sometimes and this time was something chocolate that they hadn’t had before. I had everything I…
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Dutch Baby Recipe
One day while watching a cartoon with the children one of the cartoon characters asked to go out to get a “Dutch Baby”. At this point I never heard of a Dutch Baby and neither did the other characters in the show. Their reactions were priceless and I was fully committed to watching the rest…