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Avocado Lime Shrimp Salsa. A delicious, elegant and healthier option for party food that your guests will love. Add it to a mixed green salad for an exceptional lunch dish too.

Smoky Sweet Spiced Almonds. Delicious and nutritious, this snack packs an addictive flavour punch with sweet, salt and smoky spices in a crunchy collision of flavour.

Classic Victoria Sandwich Cake. A teatime favourite! This classic British cake is a bake sale icon and much loved nationwide as the perfect teatime treat.

Raspberry Orange Thumbprint Cookies with Chocolate Drizzle. A differently delicious twist on a cookie classic.

We are between two Thanksgiving seasons here in North America. Canada celebrates the harvest season holiday weeks before our neighbours to the south. However, we both eventually need help getting rid of all that leftover turkey. I have a whole collection of leftover turkey recipes that you can find by clicking here. This delicious recipe …

We featured a summer fruit version of these cookie tarts a couple of months ago and I wondered about making a fall version too that might be good for the holidays. With Thanksgiving on the horizon here in Canada I thought maybe individual spiced nut tarts would be a good idea for dessert and these …

Strawberry Vanilla Buttercream Cheesecake Shortcake – This over-the-top cake was a big hit at one of our recent sips-n-nibbles get-togethers with friends. A pound cake bottom gets topped by a whole, crust-less vanilla cheesecake before being crowned with whole ripe strawberries and completely covered in velvety Italian buttercream frosting. This one takes decadent to a …

Leftover Turkey Mushroom Turnovers. An easy and delicious way to stretch leftover roasted turkey or chicken into a next-day meal. So I was left at home alone for dinner one evening this past week and had to pull together something for a meal for one. Leftovers in the fridge included some leftover turkey and gravy …

Roast turkey is not a special occasion meal at our house; in fact, it is probably one of the most common dinners we cook at least once a month. We like to open roast our turkey and never cover it while it is cooking. We always use a meat thermometer to get it to an …

The Best Roasted Pumpkin Soup. Roasting the pumpkin really intensifies the natural sweet flavour in this easy, satisfying fall soup.