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Claire’s Famous Chocolate Cake

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chocolate cake slices

You know when a recipe makes its way into your kitchen and it’s titled “Claire’s Famous Chocolate Cake” or Susan’s or Mary’s or Jenny’s or Barbara’s or Betty’s then you know, you just know, you’re dealing with something high-level. Something stellar. Revere the recipe with someone’s name on it. The piece of paper carrying those specific instructions feels sacred and I must say when some of the writing on my copy of “Claire’s Famous Chocolate Cake” got smudged, I did experience a mini kind of baker’s panic. Thereafter, I quickly typed the recipe into Evernote. Imagine I should need Claire’s famous recipe for chocolate cake and it should not be readable! So…. here it is for all of us to enjoy, smudge free!

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Easy Dal Makhani

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Easy and delicious vegan eating right here! A simple bowl of Dal Makhani, loaded with Coriander! Spicy and tomatoey, it really is a delight for the taste buds and its nutritious too. The recipe is easy and adaptable – add more spice if you like things on the hot side or tone it down if…

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Mini Doughnuts

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Bite Me!! These mini doughnuts are a complete and utter treat. I always used to think only bakeries could make doughnuts. But no!! No no no!! We can too!! My goodness, if only I had known how EASY it is to make these melt-in-you-mouth balls of deep-fried dough, I would have tried a lot sooner!…

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traditional thai soup in a bowl

Tom Kha Gai Soup

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Happy New Year beautiful people! Let’s get the year started with a fresh and zesty Tom Kha Gai Soup! Tom Kha Gai soup is an absolute treat! It’s healthy and versatile enough to be turned into a vegetarian dish if needed and the wonderful thing about this soup, is that is is a meal in…

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Herbed Roast Beef Fillet

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There is something extremely comforting about a roast dinner. Roast beef and roast potatoes and delicious veggies (with cheese sauce!), all lend themselves to that warm feeling of a home-cooked meal and I love it. This particular recipe for herbed roast beef fillet is an extremely easy, one-pan recipe that is perfect for sharing with…

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Easy Chicken Alfredo Pasta Bake

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An easy and tasty chicken bake making the perfect family meal. Made with chicken breasts or rotisserie chicken and basic pantry ingredients, this recipe can be made ahead of time and is perfect for freezing. It is a super creamy, super cheesy Chicken Alfredo Pasta Bake!

Best Ever Hungarian Goulash

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Hungarian Goulash. Oh my. Why did it take me so long to make this? It is so easy, so tasty, so simple. Lately I have been challenging myself to make at least one new recipe every week or at least to repeat a non-traditional dish that we have enjoyed in the past. The idea of…

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Mini Fruit Custard Tarts

Mini Custard Tarts

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Happy Spring day beautiful people! I like to celebrate the start of spring with a cake or tart, something summery to set the tone for the glorious warm days to come. Now, Custard Tarts topped with berries are just the thing I had in mind but they felt very intimidating. They were the kind of…

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Tom’s Famous Soup

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In my house, we call this soup “Tom’s Famous Soup” – the tastiest vegetable soup. It’s famous because, Thomas, our 10-year old son, created this recipe from scratch one afternoon and we all loved it so much that he made it again, and again and…. Any moms dream, right?! And the name just developed, like,…

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Pantry Pomodoro Sauce with Gnocchi

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I love discovering pantry-style recipes and this recipe is exactly that – A delicious and easy recipe using pantry ingredients to make a creamy Pomodoro sauce with gnocchi. And what’s even better is that it takes only 30 minutes to make and is a recipe the whole family will love.