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Recipe Reviews

I’m always checking out my fellow food bloggers, so I’m quite happy to recommend some!

Review: Blueberry Quinoa Breakfast Bars

Review: Blueberry Quinoa Breakfast Bars

Recently, I tweeted (to my 52 followers) that I was open to suggestions for reviews as well as one offs and was asked for gluten free recipes (I was also asked to do a weekly post on “healthy food for a lazy bachelor”, I will…

Lidia Bastianich’s Wedding Soup

Lidia Bastianich’s Wedding Soup

Have you gone to the library to pick up Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine yet? If not, here is another recipe to convince you to pick it up: Wedding Soup! Which I have since learned is actually so named because you are marrying the…

Grilled Cheese Social’s The Prefect

Grilled Cheese Social’s The Prefect

Today is the fourth anniversary of my mom’s passing and I don’t think she would have liked this sandwich, which makes it kind of funny that I’m posting a review of it today. One day soon, I’ll post a review of one of her favourite…

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

Dust off Your Library Card Before I get started on today’s chocolate zucchini cake recipe review, I’m going to let you in on a little secret (that really isn’t a secret at all). You can, and should, borrow cookbooks from the library. It is the…

Le Creme de la Crumb’s Slow Cooker Jambalaya

Le Creme de la Crumb’s Slow Cooker Jambalaya

Confession Until I stumbled upon this recipe for Slow Cooker Jambalaya, I did not even know what was in jambalaya. I wanted to review something made in a crock pot this week, and this recipe from Creme de la Crumb caught my eye. So here we…

Smoky Chicken Burger with Snap Pea Slaw

Smoky Chicken Burger with Snap Pea Slaw

BBQ Season is Coming I had every intention of actually barbecuing for this review of Canadian Living Magazine’s Smoky Chicken Burger with Snap Pea Slaw. It has been so nice out lately! Unfortunately, today it was super, super windy and I did not feel like…