Category: Recipes
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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…
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Quick-Rise Yeast Pizza Dough Recipe
It’s pizza time again. Oh so yummy delicious pizza! It seems our children can not get enough of things pizza, and pasta. Homemade pizza is definitely something we all have been missing since coming to Ireland. The photo above is a picture of a pizza I made while still in Canada. Hopeful I can make…
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Blueberry Waffles Recipe
Sunday brunch as become a big deal at our little chateau. Because of the pandemic everyone is working at home and going to school online. This means less time to eat as a family because everyone has different meeting times. We always did Sunday brunch and loved it but now that it is one of…
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Orange Fire Marmalade Recipe (Calamondin Marmalade.)
Recently I bought a Calamondin tree from a local store here in Ireland. A Calamondin is an orange lime from the Philippines, and my tree was imported from The Netherlands. Calamondins are very tart and taste like lemons or limes with a hint or orange flavour. Their color can be orange, orange and green, or…
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Baked Potato Casserole Recipe
I decided to have a little fun in the kitchen this week and take our favourite foods and add a new twist to them. This one came out so good I had to write it down. Basically it takes everything we love about baked potatoes and packs it all into bite size fun. This dish…
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Irish Soda Bread Recipe
I use to make Irish soda bread very morning before cooking breakfast. It’s as easy bread to make so it doesn’t require to much attention. One can easily make it with what little mental fortitude one has while half awake before the sun and the toddlers wake up. I have very fond memories of standing…
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Pumpkin Pie Recipe
Some called it Turkey Day, others Thanksgiving and some may even call it American Thanksgiving if it falls in November and you live outside of the US. Whatever you call it one thing is for sure there’s going to be pumpkin pie. You will see it everywhere in November on shelves, in the frozen section,…
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The Elvis Ice Cream Recipe
We finally got our ice cream maker fixed! It was a beautiful day today as I announced to the children that the ice cream maker was up and running. Their faces lite up in what I thought would be screams of joy but instead they were joyful screams for me to make up another wacky…