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12 Days of Christmas 2015, Day 3: [Recipe] Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake

12 Days of Christmas 2015, Day 3: [Recipe] Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake

[yumprint-recipe id=’6′] Mmm, a warm coffee cake. Comforting. Perfect with a hot cup of coffee on a winter’s morning. My husband loves coffee cake, and this one is no slouch. This makes a great breakfast or brunch item, or just a fantastic snack. I plan on enjoying some while sitting in front of my Christmas tree this holiday season. (more…)

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[Recipe] Chocolate Crackle Cookies

[Recipe] Chocolate Crackle Cookies

Chocolate crackle cookies. All the recent years of my life I’ve seen these cookies, in many forms and called many different names, on holiday sweet trays. I confess that I hadn’t made them myself until just this year. The recipe I used, from the Lantic Sugar website, is wonderful. A couple of changes I made to the original recipe – I didn’t add the instant espresso powder and I made about 60…

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12 Days of Christmas 2015, Day 1: [Recipe] Mama's Chocolate Macaroons

12 Days of Christmas 2015, Day 1: [Recipe] Mama’s Chocolate Macaroons

Ding! Dong! Ding! Dong! Those are my church bells. Silent internet church bells. Turn on your imaginations. The 12 Frilly Days of Christmas are here! I know that I haven’t blogged much this past year. I’ve been more than a bit busy chasing a little girl around my house. My time now mostly belongs to her. I will be honest and let you know that I was going to give up on the 12 Frilly Days of…

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[Recipe] Tuna Melt Pasta Salad

[Recipe] Tuna Melt Pasta Salad

“Tastes like a tuna melt, but it’s pasta salad.” Yup, pretty much. It’s supposed to hit 30 degrees here today, so I wanted to get a jump on our supper this morning before it got too hot. I had some vegetables in the fridge I wanted to use up, and was brainstorming ways I could do that. Checked the pantry and I had a can of tuna and a box of dry pasta. Perfect. This tuna melt pasta salad is…

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Meal Planning, Grocery Shopping, and Epicure, Oh My!

Meal Planning, Grocery Shopping, and Epicure, Oh My!

I’m not sure about any of you, but I am finding myself wondering more and more – where the heck does the time go?!? It seems that my week flies by, and when the weekend comes, that flies by too! It’s really making me realize how important meal planning is for us in order to make our week run a little bit smoother. This is what I have planned for our meals this week: Sunday – Burgers, Burger…

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Meal Planning and Grocery Shopping: [Recipe] Taco Seasoning

Meal Planning and Grocery Shopping: [Recipe] Taco Seasoning

It’s always a good idea to try to save a bit of money, isn’t it? Here in our house, we’re trying our best to meal plan and get a bit more frugal with our spending on food, an area we usually totally overspend on. If anyone has any great ideas to toss my way, please do!

Meal planning is essential for us to stick to our grocery budget. When we don’t have a plan in place, we just go right off the…

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Home Sweet Home

My heart is full today.

You see, about a month ago, my husband and I made the decision to leave this house and make the move back to my hometown, a little town that I love very much.

But now as I sit here in this house, surrounded by bare walls and boxes of our things, things that have surrounded us here for nearly a decade, I have a heavy heart. This house has been our home, and it’s been a…

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Game Time Munchies: [Recipe] Loaded Potato Chips

Game Time Munchies: [Recipe] Loaded Potato Chips

This coming Sunday is Superbowl Sunday, Superbowl XLIX.

XLIX — extra licks?

You’ll enjoy the extra licks off your fingers if you make some of these indulgent loaded potato chips for game time. Warm crunchy potato chips loaded up with everything you like on a baked potato. Ten minutes and DONE.

I really enjoy Superbowl Sunday. I’m not a regular football watcher, but I do enjoy watching football…

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12 Days of Christmas, Day 12: Disney's French Toast Loaf

12 Days of Christmas, Day 12: Disney’s French Toast Loaf

French toast that is make ahead and bakes as a loaf? YES, please!

It’s no secret that my husband and I are Disney fans, big ones. When I get a chance to have a little piece of Disney at home, I certainly do. The original recipe for this french toast loaf is a Disney recipe from the Main Street Bakery in the Magic Kingdom in Disney World.

When I found this recipe, I thought it would be the…

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12 Days of Christmas, Day 11: [Recipe] Hello Dolly Squares

12 Days of Christmas, Day 11: [Recipe] Hello Dolly Squares

Hello Dolly squares. A classic in our family. This recipe reminds me of my Auntie Donna, as this is her recipe. Even with an entire can of sweetened condensed milk, these squares aren’t nearly as sweet as she is. She is a very special lady to me, and holds a big space in my heart.

My husband is so crazy about these treats that he actually asked me how to make them himself and used to on the…

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12 Days of Christmas, Day 10: [Recipe] Vegetable Spread

12 Days of Christmas, Day 10: [Recipe] Vegetable Spread

This vegetable spread is ridiculously tasty. Let’s not tippy toe around it, it’s amazing. It originally came to me as a sandwich spread from my friend Jenn. It’s a recipe of her mom’s and when I heard about how good it was, I had to ask Jenn to get it for me. Thanks Jenn!

This vegetable spread is a cream cheese and whipped dressing base, and filled with lots of colourful vegetables. The…

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12 Days of Christmas, Day 9: Suzi's Cream Cheese Rugelach

12 Days of Christmas, Day 9: Suzi’s Cream Cheese Rugelach

I’m sure when you think of a crescent shaped pastry, you think of croissants. Same here. Until today. Now I will also be thinking of rugelach.

Rugelach is a Jewish pastry, filled with sweet fillings and rolled into a crescent shape. Rugelach is traditionally eaten during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

My good friend Suzi passed along this recipe. I’ll admit that I had never eaten rugelach…

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12 Days of Christmas, Day 8: [Recipe] Crosby's Molasses Apple Gingerbread Cake

12 Days of Christmas, Day 8: [Recipe] Crosby’s Molasses Apple Gingerbread Cake

Try your gingerbread a different way this year with this lovely recipe from Crosby’s Molasses. I made this cake based on their Peach Gingerbread Cake recipe.

Gingerbread is one of those recipes that no matter when you smell it, you think of fall and winter, specifically the holidays. The spicy combination of cinnamon and ginger combined with molasses just makes me think of curling up in front of…

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12 Days of Christmas, Day 7: [Recipe] Tomato Barley Soup

12 Days of Christmas, Day 7: [Recipe] Tomato Barley Soup

Who doesn’t love a nice hot bowl of soup on a cold winter’s day? I know I certainly do. There’s just nothing like staying tucked in on a snow day with a pot of soup simmering on the stove. Such a comforting thought.

This tomato and barley soup recipe was passed along to me by my good friend Geneviève. It is a wonderful recipe, and so flexible. You can change up the seasonings and broth, and you…

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12 Days of Christmas, Day 6: [Recipe] Butterscotch Oat Squares

12 Days of Christmas, Day 6: [Recipe] Butterscotch Oat Squares

A couple of summers ago, we had our friends, The Freeburns, come to visit us. During their visit, we spent a day at the King’s Landing settlement, just outside Fredericton. While we were there, we walked through one of the very old buildings where two women were cooking a fudgy oat square over hot coals. We tried some and loved it.

Being the crazy food person that I am, I immediately asked for…

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12 Days of Christmas, Day 5: [Recipe] Buffalo Chicken Dip

12 Days of Christmas, Day 5: [Recipe] Buffalo Chicken Dip

For quite some time now, I’ve been thinking about buffalo chicken dip. I see it all over Pinterest, and I’ve always been intrigued. I am completely addicted to hot foods, so a buffalo chicken dip is right up my alley.

The problem with all of the pins and recipes I’ve seen though is that they use canned chicken and ranch dressing mix. I’m not a fan of ranch anything, really, and I suppose you can…

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12 Days of Christmas, Day 4: [Recipe] Good Housekeeping's Shortbread Bites

12 Days of Christmas, Day 4: [Recipe] Good Housekeeping’s Shortbread Bites

Cruising Pinterest this holiday season, I kept seeing these adorable little shortbread bites, over and over again. They were so stinkin’ cute that I had to bake them up myself, just so I could look at them in person.

The original recipe for these shortbread bites is actually from Good Housekeeping: Shortbread Bites. I didn’t change a single thing when I made them, and they turned out to be…

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