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Snack Attack
Snacks make the world go ’round when you have little kids. Snacks can diffuse a tense moment or stop a tantrum in its tracks. Hungry kids are grumpy kids, and if you don’t keep feeding them kids can be...
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Toasted Coconut Ice Cream
Back in March a lovely friend of mine offered me her ice cream machine. She was moving to Toronto, and didn’t want to take it with her. I snapped it up and made my very first ice cream a couple of days...
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Maple Walnut Ice Cream
As you may already know, I have an ice cream maker and I use it constantly. Ice cream has always been one of my favourite foods, but now that I make my own I think my diet may be 27% ice cream. Which...
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Quick and Easy Pizza
Pizza. It’s a staple at our house, just like many houses with small children. I started making my own dough a few years ago. It really is the tastiest pizza. It’s also the most affordable, and probably...
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Cinnamon Heart Bark
Valentine’s Day is almost here! It’s a time for Hallmark-card-inspired declarations of love. It’s a time for high expectations that are quite likely to be dashed. And it’s a time for candy. In fact,...
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Dandelion Blossom Fritters
Please allow me to engage in a little plug up front. Today is the last day for the early bird discount on Crafting my Life. If you’d like to live with more authenticity and passion, head on over and...
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Cinnamon Ice Cream
When I was in Victoria for my weekend escape with Amanda, I sampled some cinnamon ice cream. It was delicious, and I wanted more. This is when it occurred to me that I own an ice cream maker. I decided...
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Ice Cream: The Pinnacle of Food Preservation
I am far from a strict locavore, but I do a lot of local eating, especially at this time of year. In fact, doing more local eating is my One Green Thing for July. In my quest to reduce my food miles I...
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Candy Cane Ice Cream
I am someone who believes that ice cream is a year-round food. While other people opt for something slightly less frozen in the dead of winter, I just put on another sweater. However, I do make...
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Ode to my Cherry Pitter
I have a serious thing for kitchen gadgets. There’s just something so compelling to me about these tools that were specifically created to help with food preparation. Egg beaters, pastry blenders,...
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The Post-Christmas Lull
Well, hello there! If you celebrate Christmas, like I do, I hope it was good. My Christmas was, all in all, fairly relaxed this year. In part this was because I had more than a week off leading up to...
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