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On the Target product check on TV3 tonight, they road-tested store bought pancake mixes. The host pointed out that the most basic pancake recipes only have 4 ingredients, so it’s a little disturbing when the ingredients listed on a pre-mix constitute an entire paragraph! So in an endeavour to save you from the supermarket shelves, and maybe encourage you to …
So if you are looking for something new, delish, cheap and easy for dinner, try my spring roll recipe – yes, this is my own creation You will need: 1 of those double-banger full chicken breasts half a cabbage As much onion as you want, I used 1/2 Ginger As much carrot as you want, I used 1 Garlic Cilantro …
Ethan and I didn’t go out looking for an ugly cake to buy Dave for his birthday, but lo and behold we found one anyway. We were picking up some things for the birthday dinner and Ethan spotted Louie in cake form! Although he was missing his requisite orange sweater, the likeness is uncanny, and Ethan knew his daddy would …
There is probably no way our family could ever eat enough sushi. Dave loves it, Ethan loves it and I love it. In fact Louie loves it too but we can’t afford to feed our Shi Tzu sushi, shame on us I know. I can roll sushi like a pro, but I can’t do it fast. This means we don’t …
We got a mountain of overripe bananas at the orchard for $2.99 – 2 loaves of banana bread and a dozen muffins and still more bananas left! Banana Loaf – Edmond’s Cook Book, this recipe is SO easy & quick, which is good because I will probably be repeating it about 3 more times today! Ingredients 1 3/4 cups self …
I found myself in a pinch this afternoon as I had promised to bring a salad to dinner at our neighbours house, only to find I was running very low on salad ingredients. Never fear, pasta salad was made for such situations. Of course I had no dressing so whipped up this little number and it was so good! Ingredients …
Ethan has learnt many things from watching 3 fishing shows every Saturday for the last 1.5 years, one of them is how to prepare fresh fish. He was most impressed that the Terakihi we bought from Foodtown was already filleted (flayed in Ethan speak), so all he had to do was flour it and throw it in the ‘boaties fry-pan’; …
Chicken and Spinach Pie – Endorsed by Ethan age 3.5 * Brown chicken mince in pan with seasonings (I used garlic powder, Italian seasoning and a little bit of Cajun spice) * Whisk 2 eggs, combine with 1/2 cup milk, 2 tbs of Best Foods Mayo (add more if you want but don’t use Eta Mayo, yuck) * Grate 1/2 …