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Slow Cooker Beef Burgundy

November 17, 2011
slow cooker beef burgundy

One of my all time favorite meals is Boeuf Bourguignon or Beef Burgundy.   My traditional recipe spends a fair bit of time in the oven, but with 2 active preschoolers, I don’t always have the time to sit home with the oven on.  So, recently I decided to try to adapt my recipe to the [...]

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Spooktacular Nutella Halloween Cookies

October 27, 2011
Nutella Halloween Cookies

Well, it’s that time of year again, and the girls and I have been busy baking our Spooktacular Halloween cookies.  That’s Nutella in the middle, folks.  Don’t they look yummy? I can not take all the credit here, as these cookies are a marriage of 2 different recipes.  Initially, I saw Donna Hay make a [...]

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Chilli Crab

October 19, 2011
chilli crab

I am one of those people who eats a fantastic meal at a restaurant then goes home and reproduces the dish in my kitchen.  I have a pretty success rate, and sometimes I even make a better dish than what I had out after tweaking it to suit my tastes.  What can I say?  We [...]

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Salad On A Stick

September 22, 2011
salad on a stick

I just love the first flush of Spring.  That time of year when the weather warms up, the long forgotten summer clothes are dragged back out, and bare feet rule.  It’s the time of year when the warm, heavy recipes of winter get packed away for another year, and salads are back on the menu. [...]

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Springtime Margaritas

September 1, 2011
margarita

Today is the first day of Spring in Australia.  I could not be more thrilled to leave the doldrums of winter behind.  It’s time to smell the roses once again, enjoy dinner on the back veranda, and plant out the garden.  I thought I’d celebrate the start of another Spring with some Margaritas. I used [...]

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I DID IT!!!! Behold, The Krispy Kreme Burger

August 18, 2011

I DID IT!!!  That’s right, I made a Krispy Kreme Burger! These things are usually more fun when shared with someone else.  However, The Aussie never could wipe the look of disgust off his face when I mentioned it.  So, I decided to bring in reinforcements.  Not just any reinforcements though, Super ones.  The lovely [...]

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My Favorite Cookbooks

August 11, 2011

I usually like to do a cooking post on Thursday’s, but it has been a week of leftovers and digging in the back of the freezer for anything still edible in our home this week.  So, rather than dazzle you with some spectacular new recipe, I thought I’d share with you my 3 favorite, most [...]

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Buttermilk Biscuits

June 27, 2011
buttermilk biscuits

In Australia the word “biscuit” refers to a cookie.  It’s sad to say it, but I’m living in a land that has zero appreciation for the humble buttermilk biscuit.  This staple if the American breakfast is not on the radar over here.   Even McDonald’s does not have biscuits on the breakfast menu much to my [...]

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Ricotta Ravioli With Roasted Butternut Pumpkin And Burnt Butter Sauce

June 15, 2011

Today I’m making a pasta dish with ricotta ravioli, roasted butternut pumpkin, and burnt butter sauce.  I sounds very fancy, but is actually quite easy to make. When I first came to Australia, I was amazed to find that they eat a lot of pumpkin.  I always thought pumpkins were only good for Jack-O-Lanterns, but [...]

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Cool Rise White Bread

May 11, 2011

After watching the bread baking contest on MasterChef last night, I thought I’d share with you this loaf.  It is not as fancy as the ciabatta and olive loaves they were baking last night, but it is delicious. Truthfully, I’ve always been intimidated by the idea of baking bread.  All that kneading and maintaining a [...]

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