pizza dough before rolling it out

Pizza dough

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Pizza dough Cook time: 10 mins Total time: 10 mins Ingredients 1 1/4 cups of water 2 cups of flour package of dry yeast (quarter ounce or 7 grams) 1/2 tsp salt 1 1/2 to 2 cups of flour (to your preference) Instructions H ...

chocolate cover of nanaim bars

Nanaimo bars

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Nanaimo bars Ingredients First layer: 1/2 cup of butter (or margarine) 1/4 cup of white sugar 3 Tbsp cocoa 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla 2 cups of graham wafer crumbs 1 cup of coconut 1/2 cup of chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts) Second la ...

illustration of squash and carrots

Squash, pumpkin soup

soups

Squash, pumpkin soup Ingredients This soup gets nice and thick and it's a great way to use up the various fall squashes. It is somewhat inspired by the tagine. 10 units of squash and/or pumpkin 2units of onions 1 unit of olives 1 unit ...

Roast beef in tinfoil on a barbecue

Roast beef on the barbecue

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Roast beef on the barbecue Cook time: 1 hour 30 mins Total time: 1 hour 30 mins Ingredients Roast beef Oil Coarse salt & pepper Garlic, thickly chopped Instructions I'm no roast expert. But this roast beef turned out q ...

thin crust pizza

Donna’s Thin Crust Pizza

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  Donna's Thin Crust Pizza Ingredients 2 cups flour, sifted 4 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1/3 cup oil 3/4 cup milk Instructions Mix dry ingredients together, mix wet ingredients together, then mix both with fork ...

rhubarb-with-grammy

Rhubarb Cake

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Rhubarb Cake Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 35 mins Total time: 45 mins Ingredients 1/c cup shortening (or butter) 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 beaten egg 1/4 tsp salt 1 tsp vanila 2 cups flour 1 tsp soda 1 cup sour milk 2 cups rhuba ...

milk and vinegar to make sour milk

Sour milk

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Sour milk is, actually, milk that has soured. In my experience, milk that has gone bad should be thrown away, but it hasn't always been so. My great-grandmother generation, and the generations before her, would use sour milk for baking. Before there w ...

rusty's breaky

breaky

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this meal was a bit of a team effort, quvi was on the bacon and the potatoes. i did up the sausage, becky did the poaching and lisa did the browning of the cheese. wah-la my serving poached organic eggs with browned goat's cheese over slow roasted pota ...

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Tamarindus Indica

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rusty brought some fresh tamarind to galiano. i have never seen it before. so tasty and fun. The fruit of the tamarind is most commonly reserved for consumption, whether raw or cooked or prepared in some other manner, according to the regional and c ...

Apple Pressing

Apple juice, pressing notes

preserving

Keri posted some awesome photos from our apple pressing adventure. Thought I would add some notes about the day. Rusty found a local press owner that was willing to rent their press to us for the day. We picked it up the night before to test it out to mak ...

several bruschetta on a plate

Bruschetta

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Bruschetta Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: 5 mins Total time: 10 mins So I made the last bruschetta of the season last week. Fresh tomatoes and basil from the garden, with local garlic and then a local cheese grated on top. It was especially good be ...

pie crust

Pie Crust

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Pie Crust I had a chance this weekend to make some pies with my grandma, using my grandfather's mother's recipe. The saying 'easy as pie' has always struck me as odd, because making pies has never seemed all that easy. However, the ingredients are f ...