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20-Minute Pizza Dough

April 4, 2020April 9, 2020 Alexa Clark 0 Comments Baking, Dinner, pizza, Pizza Dough

Pizza. It’s a treat. It’s comfort food. It’s a craving. It’s crazy simple to make, but because of the ubiquity

Food and Drink Making Maple Syrup

Don’t Waste the Maple Syrup!

March 28, 2019May 7, 2019 Alexa Clark 2 Comments breakfast, food waste, Maple Syrup

You know when you finish your breakfast and there is that little puddle of maple syrup on your plate? That

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Cinco de Mayo – Just Tacos & Tequila or Something Real?

May 5, 2017May 5, 2020 Alexa Clark 0 Comments Abraham Wornovitzky, Cinco de Mayo, Culture, Indi Ra, Maria Dolores Prieto Davo, Mexican, MTV

Every year in April I’m pitched on Cinco de Mayo stories – generally very cliche ones about how to use

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National Siblings Day for Only Kids

April 10, 2017April 10, 2020 Alexa Clark 1 Comment Alex, Billium, Dani, Family, Nancy, National Siblings Day, Only Child, Tina

So, seriously people when did this Siblings Day thing become a thing? It floated across my radar via social media

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Making Maple Syrup At Home

March 30, 2017April 9, 2020 Alexa Clark 6 Comments DIY, Homesteading, How To, Making maple syrup, Maple Sap, Maple Syrup, Marbill Hill Farm, Sugaring, Tips & Tricks, Trees

Making Maple Syrup at home is a blast, but it is likely faster, cheaper and more environmentally sound to jump

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Chef Jesse Vergen’s Beef Tongue Tacos

June 20, 2013April 12, 2020 Alexa Clark 8 Comments Bare Foot, Beef, Beef Brand Ambassadors, Beef Tongue, beer, Brunoise, Canadian Beef, Chef Jesse Vergen, Chef's Recipe, Chefs, Chefs #LoveCDNBeef, Chefs Recipes, Leslieville Market, Masa, Phoenix & Arnold, recipe, Tacos, Tortilla

This simple and inexpensive tongue recipe from Chef Jesse Vergen is so good Gerry has already been asking when we’re

Live Below The Line

Day 1 Failures, Successes & Menu –Live Below The Line

April 30, 2013April 9, 2020 Alexa Clark 3 Comments breakfast, Cuso International, Daily Bread Food Bank, Dinner, Food Security, Home Cooking, Hunger, Live Below The Line, Lunch, Menu, Pat, Second Harvest

I’m hungry. I woke up hungry. I dreamt about being hungry. It’s not as if I didn’t eat well. I

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Choices – Live Below The Line

April 29, 2013April 9, 2020 Alexa Clark 37 Comments Apples, Beet Greens, Bulk Barn, Carrots, Challenge, Coffee, Daily Bread Food Bank, Eggs, Flour, Food, Food Security, Garlic, groceries, Hunger, Live Below The Line, Loblaws, Metro, Mushrooms, Onions, Pasta, Potato, Rice, Salmon Belly, Second Harvest, Shopping, Spices, St. Lawrence Market, Turkey

When you are doing a poverty or hunger challenge like Live Below The Line and shopping for 5 days food

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Put My Money Where My Mouth Is–Live Below The Line

April 23, 2013April 9, 2020 Alexa Clark 8 Comments Challenge, Cuso Internation, Daily Bread Food Bank, Erin, Food Security, Hunger, Live Below The Line, Poverty, Raising the Village, RESULTS Canada, Second Harvest, Spread the Net, Toronto Taste

From April 29th to May 3th, I am taking the challenge to survive on a $1.75 per day food budget.

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Chef Rossy Earle’s Ropa Vieja

January 31, 2013April 12, 2020 Alexa Clark 1 Comment Beef, Canadian Beef, Chef Rossy Earle, Chef's Recipe, Chefs, Chefs #LoveCDNBeef, Chefs Recipes, Panamanian, recipe, Ropa Vieja, Tacos

January’s recipe in Chefs #LoveCDNBeef is Chef Rossy Earle’s Ropa Vieja. Her Panamanian-style Braised Shredded Beef is rich, flavourful, meaty & versatile, Serve with rice for dinner, in tacos, sandwich fillings, or with tortillas & eggs for breakfast.

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Avocado Caesar Salad Dressing Recipe

January 24, 2013April 9, 2020 Alexa Clark 2 Comments Avocado, Caesar Salad, Gastropost, Lex & Ger's Cookbook 2000, Nomsa, Paradisus, Salad

This Caesar salad dressing recipe was designed to allow me to enjoy Caesars when I wasn’t able to eat eggs. It uses avocado instead of egg and is richer and much better than many of Caesar Salad dressings I’ve had both in restaurant and commercially, while still staying true to the original flavours in a traditional Caesar Salad dressing.