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Whole Grain Pancakes

Made these the other day (in batches with different flavourings – my friend loved banana & walnut!) and they were amazing. Well worth substituting for your usual white-flour pancakes. http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/homemade-whole-grain-pancake-mix-recipe

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Navettes

Every region in France seems to have its own cookie. Paris’, as any Proust reader knows, is the Madeleine. Provence, though, has these fantastic, slightly hard, orangeflower aroma-ed “navettes”, named after the wooden shuttle weavers threw across a loom. Though I haven’t yet had a chance to test it, I was happy to find this […]

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Whole Grain Pancakes

Holy crumbs, were these good. I swear the team at King Arthur Flour is entirely staffed by flour elves and butter nymphs. Everything from their cookbooks I’ve tried has been amazing. http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/homemade-whole-grain-pancake-mix-recipe

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Recipe: Chocolate Nutella Ice Cream

A super-simple, probably very yummy ice cream recipe. Sadly, I’ll have to shelve this one for a week in which I haven’t overdosed on cookies and chocolate, and I just don’t see one of those upcoming anytime soon. http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2008/02/super_simple_nutella_ice_cream.php

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Recipe: Johnny Appleseed Bars

It’s a good thing I’m too worn out from my weekend to attempt these bars. I have a feeling the pan would be empty by midnight. http://www.joanne-eatswellwithothers.com/2011/09/recipe-maida-heatters-johnny-appleseed.html

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Bulgur Salad with Chickpeas, Roasted Peppers, and Spiced Cumin Dressing Recipe at Epicurious.com

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Bulgur-Salad-with-Chickpeas-Roasted-Peppers-and-Spiced-Cumin-Dressing-109729 Inspired by Roger Ebert’s Twitter recipes, I recently bought a rice cooker, and have been having a grand couple of weeks testing out what kind of one-pot meals it can make. I threw this together just before stepping into the shower, and it was ready just after I stepped out. As if that wasn’t […]

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Olive Oil Helps Produce a Classic Flatbread – NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/dining/24mini.html?hpw Mark Bittman creates Passoverly-contentious matzoh with his usual witty asides. (e.g. Recipe instructions that start, “as you’re preparing to flee…”) ***BUMPITY BUMP*** Made this, and kind of wish I hadn’t: ADDICTIVE DELICIOUSNESS ALERT!

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10 Creative Mac ’n’ Cheese Creations from WomansDay.com – Macaroni and Cheese

http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Food/10-Creative-Mac-n-Cheese-Creations.html Deep fried mac and cheese? *swoon* (*from heart failure*) (As that other website chides me, “This Is Why You Are Fat”.)

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cheapeats toronto – Torontos best-selling restaurant guide to good quality, high value meals

http://www.cheapeatstoronto.com/ BumApples‘s curry quest has put me in mind of my friend Alexa’s pet project, the Cheap Eats series. She’s been plugging away at this for years, now, and is now the proud parent of three bouncing baby city restaurant guides. As a dedicated miser, I refuse to eat out unless I know that my […]

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Cariibean Fruits

http://www.tntisland.com/fruits.html One of the best things about living in Toronto (in my opinion, the finest – and truest – multicultural city in the world) is the abundance of exotic produce available for our immigrant population to have a taste of home. Almost all of the fruits listed on this page are available at a single, […]

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