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From: Nanaimo, BC Canada

Joined: February 2nd, 2009

About me: I'm a busy mom with two young girls...who likes to garden when possible (my husband made two delicious pumpkin pies from my two sugar pumpkins that made it to adulthood.) I like to do a lot of comfort food cooking in the fall and winter.


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September 18th, 2010

Hummus from How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition): 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food

It's amazing how easy it is to make this - and it tastes better than the usual store-bought hummus. I would suggest using a food processor, as I nearly gave my blender a heart attack. It can be quite... read more >


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The Williams-Sonoma Collection: Risotto

By Pamela Sheldon Johns, Chuck Williams
Free Press - 2002

5th December 2008

Risotto with Mushrooms : page 14

I love a good mushroom risotto! For this recipe, we used dried porcini mushrooms and for the fresh mushrooms we used crimini (brown). The main flavour of the dish is overwhelmingly mushroom, so if you don't happen to have fresh thyme you can get away with dried. And it probably won't matter too much if you don't add the dry white wine, either.

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5th December 2008

Risotto with Roasted Butternut Squash : page 39

This is a wonderful dish to make in the fall. It is a beautiful egg-yolk yellow and tastes amazing. We ended up halving the recipe, as the full recipe called for 7-8 cups of stock and 3 cups of rice. A half recipe makes about 4 full servings.

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