Archive for July, 2011
When I was younger I was instilled with a love of travel, adventure and learning new stuff. While this is a wonderful attitude I have found that many of the people (students) that I meet and talk to who share the same interested/goals/desires that I do are held back by the reality that most times […]
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Tags: Education, French, Funding, Internship, Money, student life, Travel, Volunteer, Zambia
OK the only reason I am repeating this recipe is that I just wanted to show another approach you could take. I made an angel food cake rainbow coloured today, simply to make it from scratch and see if it works the same way. Also for some mysterious reason the idea of a techo-coloured angel […]
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Tags: angel, baking, cake, desert, food, joy of cooking, part two, rainbow
Crack! Chocolate Chili Chicken!
This one is for my wonderful sister who asked for a different way to cook chicken. I got the idea from a friend of mine who fried up some chicken in a spiced hot chocolate mix. It is a great idea I have always wanted to try!
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Tags: Chicken, Chili, chocolate, dinner, food
Holy Delicious Coffee Batman!!
This morning I was going through one of my favorite food blog browsers http://www.tastespotting.com when I came across a really delicious looking recipe for a Iced Mexican Coffee which came with the instructions to make a hot coffee drink called Cafe de Olla. Recipe here http://www.girlcooksworld.com/2011/07/iced-mexican-coffee-with-cafe-de-olla.html. Here is how I reproduced the recipe
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Tags: Cinnamon, Coca, Coffee, Drink, Mexican Coffee, Morning
Smack! Fried Zucchini
So the other night me and some friends were having lasagnia and we didn’t have any lettuce to make a Cesar salad so I looked in the fridge and figured I would do something with Zucchini. So here it is!
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Tags: dinner, food, fried, parmesan, vegetable, Zucchini
Slurp! Cherry Lemonade
So I was sitting out on my ‘porch’ this morning having some nice lemon iced tea and eating cherries when a great idea came about. Cherry Lemonade!
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Tags: Cherry, cocktail, Drink, Lemonade, summer, tonic water
Splat! Rainbow Cake!
Alright, this one isn’t really a new idea and it was my roommate’s idea for us to try it, but none the less it turned out very well and I wanted to share. This takes your regular boxed white cake and turns it into a psychadelic colour show ina few easy steps!
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Tags: cake, color, colour, desert, food, icing, neon, rainbow
Beach Picnic! Hoorah!
Well, it’s sunny and I am not working So! I went to the beach with a buddy and had a fantastic picnic. We a small container of fresh fruit, cheese, crackers salami, pasta salad (recipe below) and a jug of mango black iced tea. I suppose it is a bit odd but I add milk […]
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Tags: food, lunch, pasta salad, Picnic
Shazam! Cookies!
This is one of my favorite cookie recipies. It is quick and simple and you can go from wanting cookies to eating cookies in a half hour and only dirty a small handful of dishes! Who could ask for more from a cookie? Oh and did I mention that it is absolutely delicious every time?
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Tags: caramel, chocolate, Cookies, desert, easy, food
Oh! The Things You Will Make 