Want to know why I call myself the Queen of Substitutions? Well, this recipe is a perfect example! I started with this recipe. But I had leftover instant packets of oatmeal from my last camping trip and wanted to use them up. So I replaced the oatmeal with the random flavoured oatmeal I had lying…
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Zucchini & Provolone Pizza (aka What to Do When Squash Attack)
It’s the time of year when home gardeners are overrun with zucchini and various other summer squash, which means it’s time for a zucchini recipe! I personally will never run out of ways to cook zucchini, but then I’ve never successfully grown them in my balcony garden (they flower, I even hand pollinate, but they…
Syrian-Style Chopped Salad: An Easy Beat-the-Heat Dish!
Inspired by some Syrian-Canadian friends, I made a Syrian-Style Chopped Salad this weekend! This is the perfect dish to make with all the fresh produce available in summer. The primary ingredients are cucumbers, tomatoes, and fresh herbs, and it’s so refreshing to eat chilled for dinner on a hot summer’s day! There is one…
Super-Easy Cream Cheese Icing When You Don’t Have Any Cream Cheese
Cream Cheese Icing is a MUST when making carrot cake, and a HIGHLY RECOMMEND when making pumpkin cake. Last week I baked a pumpkin cake, and went to make the cream cheese icing; however, after looking in the fridge, I realized…there was no cream cheese! Egads! What to do? Well, this was a case for…THE…
Cake Icing 101, Plus How to Make Ganache in a Pinch
This cake-decorating post is coming a week later than planned, as I was away on vacay last weekend. I had thought that I could get the post out beforehand, but then I had minor surgery before we left of vacation, so that put paid to that. As much as I know that you all…