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Quick No-Cook Salsa

Quick No-Cook Salsa

This quick salsa recipe doesn’t call for any cooking, so there’s a nice fresh taste to it that’s extra-welcome in the wintertime. Just mix together: 2 ripe tomatoes1/4 cup green pepper, cut up fine1 Tbsp onion, minced1 clove of garlic, crushed1 Tbsp red wine       (or 2 tsp red wine vinegar + 1/2 [...]

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Cooking with Dried Herbs

Cooking with Dried Herbs

Fresh herbs are still available in the grocery stores in early December, but they get more limited and more expensive as winter comes on. To save money, and to be able to cook with the same wide variety of savoury flavours that are available to us in the summertime, I’ve been trying to convert my [...]

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Kitchen Gifts in a Jar

Kitchen Gifts in a Jar

Layer a few colourful ingredients in a wide-mouthed Mason jar, decorate the lid with fabric, ribbon, dried flowers, etc., and tie on a small wooden spoon or cute cookie cutter — and you’ve got a quick and easy gift that’s sure to be appreciated. Take a little Google around the internet and you’ll find plenty [...]

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How Hot is a Slow Oven?

How Hot is a Slow Oven?

We get recipes from all over the world these days, and that creates a kind of translation problem: some recipes show the oven temperature in Celcius, some in Farhenheit degrees, and some as a Gas mark. Some of our treasured old family recipes, dating back to the wood-stove days, just say to use a “hot” [...]

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Pork Tenderloin

Pork Tenderloin

A nice pork tenderloin is as easy to cook as a plain ol’ pot roast, but  leaner (and therefore lower in calories, fat, all that bad stuff), and much more impressive to whoever’s sitting down at the supper table! Thrifty, too — it’s boneless and has very little fat, so there’s no waste. Plus, they [...]

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