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Vegetarian Moussaka

Moussaka is one of those dishes that I never really think of when looking to make a ‘one pot’ meal for dinner. I think it’s because most versions contain minced meat of some sort, usually lamb. But recently, Rich asked if it was possible for us to make a vegetarian version of moussaka. His only […]

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Holiday recap, part 3: super soup

Wow, it’s been a busy week! I meant to post this a few days ago, but haven’t had the time until this lovely Sunday morning. I hope 2009 has been good to all of you so far. So, I’ve talked about our main holiday meal, but we also did a soup appetizer to kick things […]

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Holiday recap, part 2: eat your veggies!

Holiday dinners usually focus on the turkey, or in our case, the tofurky. That’s great, except one cannot survive on protein alone! We knew we’d need some delicious vegetable dishes to round out our meal. We decided we wanted to stay away from some of the typical stuff we’d been served growing up. This meant […]

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Holiday recap, part 1: Gravy mishaps

Now that the holidays are truly over and we’re all getting back into our normal routines, I finally have some time to post about our delicious vegan holiday meal. “Wait”, you might be thinking, “Vegan? Since when are you vegan?” See, this year we decided to have our own Christmas Day meal at home. Since […]

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Giada’s Red Wine Risotto

Just before Christmas, I got an email from the community manager at Foodtv.ca, asking for my phone number, as they wanted to send me something by courier. I was curious as to what they might be sending, but decided to just wait and let it be a surprise instead of asking outright.  A few days […]

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