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Goat Cheese and Roasted Garlic Pita Platter

February 8, 2010
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When a Milestones restaurant opened in our neighbourhood, we just had to try it.  All of us loved  their Baked Goat Cheese and Slow-Roasted Garlic Flatbread Plate and decided we had to try to duplicate it to take to neighbour’s 40th birthday bash.  it is so simple and wows guests. We liked it so much [...]

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Cheesy Potato and Bacon Soup

February 7, 2010
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Our sixteen year-old daughter loves to eat.  So when she approached me and said it was time to make some soup, I didnt’ realize how much soup she meant.  Two of her favourite things are bacon and cheese so that is the soup we started with.  Below is our recipe for Cheesy Potato and Bacon [...]

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Quick Chicken Roll-ups

May 13, 2006

The following recipe is a quick, easy chicken recipe I adapted from the Kraft website. The kids love it and it’s easy for them to help make. Clean up is quick and easy as well.
Quick Chicken Roll-Ups
4-5 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (or fillets)
1 package stove top stuffing
1 package shake and bake
Take chicken breasts [...]

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Less Stinky Soup

April 25, 2006

Many years ago (about 15), Time Life came out with a series of American Country books. At that time, we were into many things country. The series of books was well done with great photographs but the most interesting to us was the country cooking book. I still use some of these [...]

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Big Stinky Soup

April 20, 2006

A few years ago we had a dinner party where every couple was expected to bring a specific course and a bottle of wine (or two) to accompany it. We had 5 couples who brought an appetizer, salad, soup, a main course and dessert. For this particular evening, we made the soup; a [...]

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Squash Pesto Bake

April 16, 2006

Since we always celebrate the major holidays at our house, we are always looking for new recipes to try out. On Friday morning, we were flipping through the TV and stopped on Everyday Italian, a show we had never watched before. The hostess, Giada De Laurentis, was reviewing vegetable recipes. One of [...]

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