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7 Minute Dinner | Chicken Rice and Vegetables

7 Minute Dinner – Rice, Chicken & Veggies Recipe

No more take-out with this recipe, it’s done before you can pick up the phone & order…
7 Minute Dinner Recipe: Rice, Chicken and Veggies…

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Easy Beef Stew Crockpot Recipe Homemade

This is my own recipe for homemade crockpot beef stew – some days I’m very busy and need a super fast no fuss Canadian comfort food meal right out of the pot…The tapioca will thicken the liquid and make it’s own gravy.

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Salsa Recipe

Homemade Salsa Recipe

How do I make salsa?
If I gave away a jar to everyone who asked, I could open a manufacturing plant… my friends have to go on a waiting list for this stuff…
Homemade Salsa Recipe…

(Excellent! One of the very best I’ve tried & adapted to my taste)

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Raspberry Freeze Frozen Dessert Recipe

A summer frozen dessert designed for company as it serves 15! Won’t go back to the icecream cake after having this scrumptious mousse style frozen square. Can be made ahead of time and frozen, using either fresh or frozen raspberries. It looks upscale, without all the fuss.

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Cinnamon Honey Butter Recipe

Cinnamon Honey Butter Recipe

My dad’s a beekeeper, we’ve made lots of honey recipes, here’s one of them:
Honey Butter Recipe: 1/4 cup butter (softened), 1/4 cup honey (runny),
1/16 teaspoon cinnamon (or to taste, dash), dash nutmeg …

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Hot Broccoli Dip ~ Super Easy Appetizers

My sister has this requested at many events. It’s restaurant quality.

Hot Broccoli Dip ~ Easy Appetizer Recipe …

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Mandarin Spinach Salad with Dried Cranberries and Poppyseed Dressing like Swiss Chalet

Mandarin Spinach Salad Recipe with Dried Cranberries and Poppyseed Dressing – remarkably similar to Swiss Chalet’s

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Pomegranate salad dressing Recipe

Easy & Elegant Pomegranate Salad ~ The Perfect Light Summer Recipe

Pomegranate Salad Recipe with dressing, spinach, feta, pomegranates, pine nuts or Almonds… Here’s one that will surely impress. It’s fresh, slightly sweet, and oh, so good. Perfect for entertaining, yet such a family favourite, you’ll find yourself making it all the time.

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Bean Salad Recipe

Phenominal Bean Salad Recipe – with Fresh Basil

Here’s a phenomenal 3 Bean Salad Recipe
I asked an almost complete stranger for it, as I had it at a party…cause it was too good to let get away… and now we’re friends!

I used both organic and regular beans (black beans mmm…) and it’s great either way.

Three Bean Salad Recipe w/Fresh Basil:
1 can chick peas, well drained & rinsed

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Homemade Pound Cake Recipes

This is a very moist pound cake recipe. My mother, Edythe, has been making this for more than 30 years. Since this is a real butter pound cake recipe – there’s an art to the order of ingredients & the mixing (ie: sifting the flour). Mrs. McCallum’s name is mentioned on the original recipe card. […]

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Homemade Chicken Pot Pie Recipe with Biscuit Topping

This was one of my favourite dishes growing up. Definitely one of the  top 10 have to have comfort foods Chicken Pot Pie (or Turkey): 1/2 cup milk (or omit the milk and use a combination of milk powder & 1/2 cup chicken broth instead) 1/3 cup flour 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 1/2 cups hot […]

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Ham Recipes

Pork Tenderloin Recipe – Roast Pork Loin Cooking Time

This is a wonderful lightly spiced yet almost sweet recipe my ex-sister in law Ellen makes. We haven’t met anyone yet who doesn’t like it, children included. She’s a marvelous cook. Since we have 25 in our immediate family and lots of friends… that’s pretty good odds! Ellen’s Pork Tenderloin: 1/2 cup maple syrup 2 […]

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Shake n Bake Recipe Style Oven Fried Chicken

Fake Shake’n Bake (clone) ~ baked chicken drumstick recipe

Coating for baked chicken drumstick recipe and simple boneless skinless chicken breast recipes:

Great with fish! Those non-fish eaters will be converted! See notes section for details…baked fish recipe…

Make your own…

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Homemade Pumpkin Pie Recipe

This is my mom’s Pumpkin Pie Filling recipe.

She’s used the same one for as long as I can remember. I’m sure she’s tried others, but always came back to this simple, easy and definitely flavourful one. My dad, being the ultimate connoisseur of pumpkin pie (once cutting the whole pie in 4 and himself and each son-in-law having a quarter a piece) likes this one the best.

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