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Animal Parade Mini Cupcakes
Johannes’ class does a yearly Halloween party and I signed up to bring in cupcakes. I knew I wanted 2 things out of those cupcakes: (1) they had to be home made, and (2) they had to be fun. In the...
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Banana Bread Chocolate Chip Muffin Recipe
On the weekend while going through my freezer I realized I had a ridiculous amount of frozen old bananas that needed to be used up. You see whenever a banana gets too ripe in the fruit bowl I throw...
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The Best Shrimp Scampi Recipe
A friend of mine made the most amazing looking Shrimp Scampi with this recipe here, so I decided to give it a shot…with some minor modifications to make it Johannes friendly. I left out the chilli...
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Banana S’more Brownies
On Sunday I realized that my frozen bananas were taking over my freezer and I needed to do something with them. Normally I make banana bread, but I was craving something chocolatey so I thought I’d...
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The Apple and Crispy Prosciutto Tart
I love prosciutto. Its a weakness. And I love cheese…lots and lots and lots of cheese. When you put these two ingredients together, and add a little bit of apple to the mix…well…magic happens. If...
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My Favorite BBQ Salmon Recipe
I spend almost 8 months craving BBQ salmon. With our Canadian winters, BBQ season is something to be celebrated since it only lasts a few short months. My favorite way to eat salmon is on the...
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My Favourite Way to Brunch
Outdoors and with smoked salmon. There are 3 foods I cannot get enough of this pregnancy, salmon …or fish in general, red leaf lettuce (yes it is that specific), and feta cheese. Luckily they make...
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Roasted Potato and Macaroni Salad with Greek Yogurt
I loooove potato salad but I hate when there’s too much mayonnaise being mixed in. So I decided to try a different version using greek yogurt and mayo mixed together. To make it a little bit tastier...
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Roasted Butternut Squash and Chickpea Salad
I had a major craving for something healthy and full of vitamins this weekend. We knew that Sunday my parents would be coming over for a BBQ so I started thinking what I wanted to eat alongside the...
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My Favourite Guacamole Recipe
I was craving guacamole…and so I made some. I’m sort of in a no-cooking phase lately, I blame the pregnancy for my lack of energy, but when cravings come calling I just can’t ignore them. So...
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Week 2 #BBK Get Fit Challenge
iPhone photo @bluebirdkisses Salads, this week is about salads. But first a recap. I was…correction, I AM so blown away by the response I got to this challenge. I thought maybe one or two of you...
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Week 3 Get Fit Challenge
This week was a challenge indeed since Johannes was sick, and we only discovered it was strep throat on Wednesday. So 5 days worth of fever spikes, a cranky kid, meds every 3 hours and loads of tests...
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Red “Apple” Juice Recipe
As I sit in Johannes’ room typing out this blog post and watching Johnannes playing with his trains set quietly I’m thinking a lot about his Periodic Fever diagnosis. I was pretty devastated when I...
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Healthy Tahini Dressing Recipe
Eating healthy is not something that comes easily to me, but I’ve been trying very VERY hard to eat one salad a day, and 5/7 days last week I succeeded. I boiled 10 eggs and left them in the fridge...
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homemade lemonade – recipe
Rufus + Murdog tank sold here it was a brutally hot day yesterday. i’m talking 65% humidity, stifling stale air, a grey sky without any clouds kind of hot day. where the loudest sound to be heard...
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the best mexican street corn recipe + a bbq
how did we get here? its almost September, back to school time, Halloween, Thanksgiving, the works! this weekend was our last long weekend of the Summer that’s filled without any real stresses and...
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Easy Zucchini Fritters
We are on a zucchini binge, mainly on account of the four zucchini plants we have taking over our garden, but also because they’re just so darned tasty! I hadn’t tried zucchini fritters yet, so I gave...
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Green Matcha Breakfast Smoothie Recipe
Weekday mornings are a filled with chaos and rushed breakfasts. Its been one year and I still cannot get a perfect hold on how to get myself and the boys fed and out the door for school, activities...
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Banana Peach Muffins & a Loaf
With a freezer full of frozen ripe bananas and a constant request for muffins from Johannes I decided to do just that! We also had a whole bowl of ripe Ontario peaches, in season and so sweet right...
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Lemon Birthday Cake with Milk Chocolate Buttercream Icing
With so many questions and emails about how I made Magnus’ birthday cake on Wednesday I thought I’d share on the blog. Its a really easy one to make, and pretty tasty too. I made the cake rounds the...
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