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Warm Eggnog Recipe

November 26, 2009
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Eggnog is one of those much maligned holiday traditions, taking it’s place right alongside jewel speckled fruitcakes and mincemeat pie. Being a lover of eggs, sugar and cream, I never quite got why people hate it so much, but it’s popularity seems to have waned even further in recent years due to food safety concerns [...]

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Celery Lavender Martini

December 12, 2008
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I had another food dream. The last time this happened I came up with about a dozen pizza combos. This time I debated whether or not to share the story because you may think I’m a little nuts, but what the heck…
I was out in the mid-west somewhere (the land was flat for as far [...]

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Sweet victory frozen watermelon and sangria

July 23, 2008
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I won something today. It wasn’t a plastic tchotchke from a trade coference, nor was it a Publisher’s Clearing House giveaway… I actually won 10lbs of something delicious because some people over at Marx Foods liked my burger! It’s the first food competition I’ve ever won and given all the tasty looking entries, I’m [...]

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Chocolate orange martini

May 25, 2008
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The flavour of oranges and chocolate almost always take me back to childhood eating Jaffas by the bagful. In case you’ve never had them, Jaffas are Australian candies that are a bit like round M&M’s but coated with crunchy orange flavoured candy.
The other day, a few packs of lunch-sized cartons of chocolate milk were accidentally [...]

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Pineapple rhubarb flambé

May 5, 2008
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As I polished off some leftovers from last night’s Tacos Al Pastor (which I added ramps to tonight), I was hit with a wicked craving for dessert. Doing a survey of the fruit bowl and fridge, all I could find was a quarter of a pineapple and some rhubarb. Clafoutis?…. nah, too pedestrian… I need [...]

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