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Canada 150

Posted on July 1, 2017 by

We went to see the tall ships sail into Hamilton Harbour yesterday, as part of the Canada 150 celebration.  Fully rigged  Keeping cool in the shade  A flyover by a Lancaster and a B-25 Today’s rainy celebration in Mississauga  We … Continue reading →

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Ramen Soup

Posted on June 25, 2017 by

Have you ever seen the movie “Ramen Girl”? We have; many times. We thought it would be fun to have a go at making Ramen soup from scratch for recipe number 14. We used a recipe from “Street Food Diaries” … Continue reading →

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Becky’s Bread

Posted on June 13, 2017 by

Yesterday Becky started perusing “Cook with Confidence” and decided she wanted to make the pizza recipe. She read the all the instructions to me before checking with me on the list of ingredients. We were missing tomatoes and olives. I … Continue reading →

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Rhubarb Coffee Cake 

Posted on June 9, 2017 by

Coffee cake was an alien food to me when I first came to Canada. I was invited to ‘coffee mornings’ where you drank coffee and ate coffee cake. “I don’t like coffee”, I would tell people. “No problem”, they said, … Continue reading →

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Mushroom Pesto and Cheese Melt

Posted on May 30, 2017 by

This is a quick post for a quick recipe. Number 8 is a Donna Hay sandwich recipe from her book “Seasons”.  Fry some mushrooms in butter. We had three left in the fridge.  Spread pesto on sturdy rolls. We happened … Continue reading →

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Mushroom and Kale Lasagna 

Posted on May 27, 2017 by

We found this recipe in “Skinny One-Pan Recipes” magazine. It has taken a while to find the type of pasta. The recipe calls for “campanelle” but the closest we found was “fiorelli”, which worked really well. This is recipe number … Continue reading →

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Rhubarb Crumble 

Posted on May 22, 2017 by

We’ve made rhubarb and custard cupcakes, rhubarb meringue tarts, rhubarb muffins but never have we used rhubarb for a crumble. This is number 6 of our challenge and the recipe was from Gordon Ramsay’s “Sunday Lunch”.   Chop the rhubarb.  Toss … Continue reading →

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