These colorful mini-cheesecakes—topped with fluffy whipped cream and fresh berries—are real crowd-pleasers.
Author: chefalice
A deep-flavored, slow-simmered beef stew is the essence of comfort food. My crock pot technique makes this cozy meal manageable even when the cook has a hectic schedule.
The peppery and licorice notes of fennel in this salad contrast well with the nuttiness of the quinoa and the juicy and sweet pomegranate seeds.
Halvah is a soft dessert that is similar in texture to fudge. It’s made with pure sesame paste and normally with honey or sugar. You will not be able to tell the difference with this sugar-free version!
I confess that I prefer mild curries to those that blow your socks off and this is a lovely gentle, pretty dish that includes some dried rose petals. I love it! You can buy edible rose petals in healthfood shops and online and they keep for ages.
Blueberry grunt is guaranteed to make you happy the name alone will make you giggle. Its silly moniker dates back to the early settlers in the Maritimes who named this delicious mixture of blueberries and biscuit-like clouds of dough after the sound the berries made while they simmered in the pot … grunt, grunt, grunt! Now, “down home” in Cape Breton, where Kev’s family hails from, mom might ask the kids, “Jeet?” (translation: Did you eat?) and they might reply, “No, jou?” (No, did you?). And if the kids were keeping sweet that day, she just might lay out a…