Category: Sweets
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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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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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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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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…
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Lemon Jalebi Recipe
Jalebi is a delicious sweet made all over India. One of my fondest memories of foods I have a eaten on my travels to India is Jalebi and not just because it is one of my husband’s favourite sweets of all time. Although seeing the childlike joy in his face as eats them and professes…
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A Small Holiday Cookie In A Jar Gift Recipe For These Frugal Quarantine Times.
Whether you’re celebrating the 1st of July, 4th of July, or Christmas in July these small cookie jars are the prefect treat to gift your loved ones. This year gift giving hasn’t been easy because stores are sold out of everything from basics wants to much needed essentials. I found myself thinking what could I…
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Cherry Clafoutis Recipe
It’s that time of year again, birds are singing, days are warmer, and the sweet smell of cherry season is in the air. I love the sight of pink and white cherry blossoms all round and the extra added gift of the sweet cherry fruit. We are missing a lot of spring and beginning of…