Lunch Box Favorites

Easy Multi-Grain Bread

Maybe you have been too nervous to try bread before, but believe me, this is a good one to start with. It is quick and easy, only needs to be kneaded once, rises once and doesn’t require any special pans or techniques. I modified it from an old Fleischmann’s Yeast recipe booklet that my mom had…

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Hot Cross Buns

Easter is literally just around the corner but I wanted to share this tasty bun recipe just in case you wanted to add a last-minute treat to your weekend. This does take a few hours to complete due to the rising steps, but I find that the actual work to make these is really not…

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Classic Rice Krispie Squares

Do you ever feel nostalgic? Like you’d like to travel back in time and revisit the care-free days of your youth?  When I get a desire to “taste” my childhood, I make these classic Rice Krispie squares. They are simple, fast and so chewy when you eat them. And they are one of the few…

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies

Disclaimer: I take no credit for this recipe. I am sharing it with you because it is just so tasty, that I want you to have a chance to try it too. I had never tried making whoopie pies before. I’m not sure why not. perhaps I didn’t want to go through all the steps?…

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Chocolate Marble Cookies

Today I pulled out an old cookbook that I purchased many years ago but hadn’t looked at for ages. As I browsed through the pictures and recipes, I was surprised by how many of the recipes I had actually tried. I believe that it is also the first recipe book where I made notes for nearly every…

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Nanaimo Bars

What an odd name. Why exactly are such delicious treats named after an costal town in British Columbia, I wonder? Apparently, there are a lot of different opinions and legends, but it would seem the general public agree that regardless of their origin, Nanaimo, BC is the best place to find these treats. If you would…

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Transform Your Never Fail Brownies

You may have already made the Never Fail Brownies recipe that we featured last year, but I am guessing you didn’t know how versatile they can be. I have been working on this PDF cookbook for some time now (you can only eat so many brownies at one time without gaining way too much weight!) and…

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Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

This week I enjoyed a “muffin morning” with my Bible study group. (This is a time once a month when we set aside a special time to socialize and eat before digging into our study.) I brought some carrot cake mini muffins that I made, and since a few ladies asked for the recipe, I…

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Gingerbread Coffee Cake

Here is a simple but tasty coffee cake that is way easier than you might think. I don’t recall where this recipe came from, but it makes me think of a 1950s housewife sitting down with her next-door neighbour to enjoy a coffee-time treat before the kids come back from school. It has an unfussy, quick to…

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Almond Snowball Cookies

We are in the deep of winter as I write this. The thermometer has averaged below zero for well over a month. Snow, who knows how deep now, covers the entire lawn. Some mornings you can wake up to a winter wonderland with trees, bushes, cars, sidewalks and roads covered in sparkling white. And you may…

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