Desserts & Snacks
Homemade Guacamole with Tortilla Chips
There are two kinds of guacamole in this world. There is the pale, smooth stuff from a tub that tastes mostly of lime and regret, and…
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Desserts & Snacks
Crunchy Oat Cookies
There is a particular sound a good oat cookie should make when you bite into it, and it is not a soft squish. It is a…
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Desserts & Snacks
No-Bake Cheesecake Cups
Some desserts ask for a whole afternoon, a water bath and a prayer that the top does not crack. This is not that dessert. These little…
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Desserts & Snacks
Fresh Fruit Salad with Lime Dressing
There is a fruit salad that lives in my memory from every summer barbecue I have ever been to, and it is almost always the same…
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Desserts & Snacks
Moist Banana Bread
There is a point every week in our house when three bananas on the counter go from yellow to spotty to black, and that is when…
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Desserts & Snacks
Chocolate Mug Cake in 5 Minutes
Some nights, the craving for chocolate hits like a freight train, and it hits at 9 o’clock in the evening when the shops are shut and…
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Lunch & Dinner
Hearty Lentil Stew
There is a pot in my kitchen that has seen more lentil stew than anything else, and it is the pot I reach for when the…
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Lunch & Dinner
Chicken Fried Rice, Restaurant Style at Home
Every time we ordered takeaway fried rice, I wondered why mine never tasted like that. Mine was soft and a bit sticky, theirs had that smoky,…
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Lunch & Dinner
Homemade Margherita Pizza
Pizza night in our house used to mean a phone call and a cardboard box. Then one rainy Saturday my son asked if we could make…
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Lunch & Dinner
Warm Chicken Soup for Cold Days
There is a particular kind of cold that gets right into your bones, the kind where you come home with red cheeks and cold fingers and…
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