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How to Cook Boxty: St. Patrick’s Day Recipes
Mar13

How to Cook Boxty: St. Patrick’s Day Recipes

Boxty is a traditional Irish recipe for a potato pancake containing both mashed and grated potatoes, giving you the experience of both pancake & hash browns in one. What a good choice for breakfast or supper! It goes well with many other ethnic cuisines as well. I think it would be delicious with smoked salmon, in place of other kinds of pancakes like crepes or blini, served with sour cream or creme fraiche. Salmon is one of the...

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Catch Kimberly for Pancake Tuesday on ‘Tim Denis in the Morning’
Mar03

Catch Kimberly for Pancake Tuesday on ‘Tim Denis in the Morning’

Tune in to Newstalk 610 CKTB at 7:50 am for Pancake Tuesday with web chef, Kimberly Turner, on Tim Denis in the Morning. Whether you like your pancakes lightly & fluffy, flat like a crepe, filled with berries, chocolate chips, nuts or bananas, they are a perfect breakfast food. For the pancake-loving soul, you can top these bad boys with spreads, syrups, honeys, butters, sprinkles, whipped cream, fruit & treats galore. Vegan...

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How to Cook Grandma’s Russian Pancakes
Dec28

How to Cook Grandma’s Russian Pancakes

Russian Pancakes are always a treat around our house. There are so many kinds of pancakes, I hardly know where to begin. Pancakes or griddle cakes can be prepared to serve as appetizers, breakfast, lunch or supper, treats or as desserts & snacks. They can be prepared on your kitchen stove, table-side, a BBQ grill pan or electric griddle. Regardless of what one calls them, pancakes, crepes, blintzes, griddle cakes, batter cakes or...

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How to Cook Apricot Pancakes for Breakfast
Sep24

How to Cook Apricot Pancakes for Breakfast

I love experimenting with traditional breakfast favorites and making them into a symphony of flavors on your plate. Spicing up your classic recipes is a great way to expand your cooking repertoire without having to learn too many more skills, if you are a beginner in the kitchen. What sounds more yummy than apricot pancakes for breakfast though, right? Hot, fluffy and fragrant with melted butter and hot maple syrup! Now, you’re...

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How to Cook Classic, Fluffy Pancakes
Sep22

How to Cook Classic, Fluffy Pancakes

Just the other morning, I had realized that I have been making all kinds of amazingly flavored pancakes… However, I haven’t made the plain, old, classic, fluffy pancakes in a long time…plain & simple. Sometimes, we want those old comfy classics to soothe our culinary souls. Here is that recipe…just for you from me! Photo right: Whoops…by the time I realized I hadn’t yet taken a photo of the...

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How to Cook Breakfast Crepe-Cakes
Aug13

How to Cook Breakfast Crepe-Cakes

When I was making breakfast yesterday, I suppose I was a bit sleepy still, as I had forgotten to put all the ingredients in my batter for pancakes. As my pancakes are sitting in the frying pan, I’m realizing that they aren’t rising, and fluffing up with lovely bubbles in them. That’s when I realize…I forgot the baking powder. Seeing that I’m a perfectionist of sorts, I was ready to call it a wrap and feed...

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How to Cook Perfectly Fluffy Pancakes
Aug13

How to Cook Perfectly Fluffy Pancakes

I was scrolling through my site the other morning in search of a few ideas for breakfast and realized that I don’t have a really perfect, plain pancake recipe up for you all. So, here it is…these pancakes are fluffy and tasty, all from scratch, and they’re so worth it. Type: Breakfast Recipe Serve With: Drizzle with Maple Syrup Prep Time: 8 minutes Cook Time: 12 minutes Yield: 8 large pancakes Ingredients: 1 cup...

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How to Cook Kasper Family German-Style Crepes
Apr20

How to Cook Kasper Family German-Style Crepes

This is one of our favorite Kasper family recipes…In fact, it’s the first recipe I learned to make on my own when I moved away from home. We don’t really eat the small, fluffy pancakes most families eat. We called these big, thin delights “pancakes”…our style of pancakes. Golden and delicious, these beautiful crepes can be eaten for breakfast, brunch or dinner, if desired. Try...

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How to Make Arepas from Scratch
Jul23

How to Make Arepas from Scratch

If you have never had arepas before, you totally don’t know what you’re missing. This is a South American recipe often made in Venezuela, Mexico, and also in Colombia. They are most similar to “hot water cornbread” in the Southern United States, except made with pre-cooked cornmeal, which turns out to be a bit more soft and smooth, instead of a bit more gritty with normal cornmeal. They are so delicious as a...

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How to Cook Sweet Potato and Red Pepper Corn Cakes
Jul22

How to Cook Sweet Potato and Red Pepper Corn Cakes

Making dinner and forgot to make a side dish? Looking for a quick and easy side dish that’s impressive too? Need something that’s cost effective? Try making savory corn cakes pancakes. You almost always have all of the basic ingredients you’ll need, and can dress it up with whatever you like or whatever you have on hand to make something that’s unique and will go with your meal. Cornmeal, sweet potatoes and the...

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How to Make Mint Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Jun26

How to Make Mint Chocolate Chip Pancakes

How about a cool kick to your breakfast routine? Well, it’s Sunday, and we often do a little something special for breakfast or brunch on the weekends. So, today, I’m going to let you in on how to make Mint Chocolate Chip Pancakes. I, personally, do not enjoy mint chocolate chip, but there are members in my family that simply can’t get enough of it. I will be making myself some special scrambled eggs. I do hope you...

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How to Cook Breakfast: Black Currant Pancakes
Jun20

How to Cook Breakfast: Black Currant Pancakes

Why not kick it up a few notches for breakfast at your house, instead of the old humdrum… This is a simple, quick, tasty and much more exciting version of plain, old pancakes. Not only do these babies have black currants, which can be in dried form and easy to find at your grocer, they also contain chia seeds, which are now easy to find as well. Chia seeds are a good source of protein, dietary fiber, as well as essential...

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How to Cook Breakfast Date Pancakes with Flax Seeds
Apr10

How to Cook Breakfast Date Pancakes with Flax Seeds

Looking for a recipe for breakfast that’s a bit more exciting? A bit more of a change? A bit tastier? With a healthy twist? Something you can serve on a breakfast date? Kapow! You’ve found it! Here’s the recipe for how to make breakfast date pancakes with flax seeds. Now, these dates are of the dried fruit variety, but I’m sure your “honey” you’re on a date with will love them too! Flax seeds...

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