Canadian Holiday/Event Recipes

"This is a 100% sugar free drink (sweetened with naturally sweet stevia) that is perfect for summer. I love using frozen fruit as ice cubes in drinks, because they don't water the beverage down and are edible! I'm lucky enough to have a Meyer lemon tree at home, but of course you can use whatever lemons you have on hand."

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Ingredients: watermelon, berries...

"Reliably delicious treat."

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Ingredients: unsweetened dried shredded coconut, rolled oats...

"If I was making these vegan "tasting cookies" for company, I'd use a good white port, but I've made them with regular tawny and they were delicious as well. They're not overly sweet, but great to put on a cheese tray with fruit and crackers after dinner."

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Ingredients: fennel seeds, lemon zest...

"An updated, scaled up variation of my Sauteed Asparagus and Mushrooms in a Lemon - Thyme Butter recipe, using vibrant, steam-blanched carrot coins in place of mushrooms and a touch of rosemary with the thyme."

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Ingredients: salted butter, dried thyme...

"Please Note: the calorie count is much lower that Food shows. The calorie amount on the recipe is 240. The Food.com computer isn't recognizing that the 2 cups of sugar is in the poaching liquid and will be discarded not consumed. Found on a recipe card at the market. It sounds wonderful."

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Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, caramel sauce...

"This is a pretty web-famous, but still delicious, mock-up of the Cadbury treat. You can make deliciously flavoured fillings by changing the extracts (my current favourite is coconut "white" and lemon "yolk")."

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Ingredients: corn syrup, powdered sugar...

"The filling for Recipe #477154, which is perfect for any cakes, cookies or truffles needing a citrus zing."

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Ingredients: coconut oil, icing sugar...

"Over the past 20 years I worked in restaurants and almost every one of those has a spinach dip. I took the best of them all and put it in one."

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Ingredients: cream cheese, feta cheese...

"Sunny yellow (if you use the colouring) and full of lemon and orange flavour! It's a nice change from your usual Easter Peeps. Original recipe from http://www.frillsinthehills.com/2009/08/make-your-own-eggless-marshmallows.html, modified slightly by me"

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Ingredients: cornstarch, gelatin...

"Inspired by a picture I saw on the Carrots and Cake blog. Effervescent, fruity, sweet and perfect for Summer BBQs."

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Ingredients: club soda, grenadine...

"The only fat in this vegan recipe is whats naturally present in the spelt, and they're full of nutritious fresh ginger and molasses too. A dash of caramel-flavoured stevia really amps up the flavour.These are best eaten within a few days, though - the lack of oil dries them up quickly."

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Ingredients: dark brown sugar, fresh gingerroot...