Round-Ups

Mother’s Day Recipes: Breakfast, Lunch, Beverages & Desserts

May 11, 2012
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Treat your mum or wife to breakfast in bed or cocktails on the back porch this Mother’s Day. Here are some recipes to get you started in planning the day. I always knew I was going to have boys. In fact, a needle on a thread told me so when I was seventeen. Come on, [...]

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Picnic Recipe Ideas for Earth Day 2012 {Giveaway}

Apr 16, 2012
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Each year, the whole family makes a trip to the annual plant sale held by a local non-profit group called Wasatch Community Gardens. While I contribute recipes to their monthly newsletters, focusing on seasonal produce, and am always happy to connect with the staff and see the dedicated workers in action, the real excitement lies [...]

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Recipes for Leftover Easter Ham

Apr 9, 2012
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Whether it’s ham or lamb at Easter, turkey at Thanksgiving or prime rib on New Year’s Eve, one of the joys of cooking a big cut of meat is having a fridge full of leftovers to draw upon for the coming week. Typically we slice up our Easter ham and freeze half of the leftovers. [...]

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Top Recipes of Year Three & An Epiphanie Bag Giveaway {International}

Apr 4, 2012
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This giveaway is now closed, but please scroll down to enjoy some of my favorite recipes and to find out who won the giveaway. Three years ago today, I posted the first recipe on Cookin’ Canuck. Did I have any idea that what I was starting would become a passion, a fulfillment of something inside [...]

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Our Favorite Healthy Breakfast & Brunch Recipes

Feb 24, 2012
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{On a side note, be sure to check back on Monday. I’ll be sharing my weight loss journey, complete with before (ugh, painful) and after photos, and the tips that helped me reach my goal.} The weekend is here, which means my mind automatically turns to lazy breakfasts and brunches with the family. Well, perhaps [...]

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Most Popular Recipes on Cookin’ Canuck

Feb 13, 2012
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After more than two and half years of writing, photographing and posting recipes on Cookin’ Canuck, I have built a mental list of my favorite recipes. As I was scrolling through my blog statistics the other day (something many bloggers do with an obsessive kind of regularity…you know who you are…I’m right there with you), [...]

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Super Bowl Recipes: Chili, Wings, Dips and More

Feb 1, 2012
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“Only five more days, Mum.” That was the greeting yesterday morning. No “Good morning, Mum”, no hug – just the countdown to football’s biggest day of the year. If you don’t follow NFL news, my son would want me to tell you that his beloved New York Giants are playing the New England Patriots in [...]

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Recipes for Good Health & Weight Loss in 2012

Jan 2, 2012
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Typically at this time of year I am lamenting my jeans’ unwillingness to cooperate with my waistline. This year things are a little different. The kind of different that makes clothes shopping fun again, the kind of different that makes me crave exercise and fresh air, the kind of different that makes me feel better [...]

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New Year’s Eve Recipes: Appetizers, Hors D’Oeuvres & Cocktails

Dec 30, 2011
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I never used to believe my parents when they told me that time starts to go faster as you get older. Now I know exactly what they were talking about. When I started to sift through all of the photos of 2011 for our annual family calendar and Christmas card, I realized that we had [...]

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