Category: Snacks & Sides
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Buttermilk Biscuits
Sundays were made for brunch and these biscuits are a brunch table staple at ours. They are great on their own with butter and jam or use them as the carrier for your eggs benedict. They also end up as sides for soups and fried chicken of course. What makes these biscuits so good is…
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Guacamole & Tortilla Crisps
Who doesn’t love guac and chips! I have never been a fan of the jarred salsa so once I started making my own, this recipe developed from there. My love for Guacamole started later in life. Avocado didn’t feature prominently when I was growing up – mainly because I don’t think it was available in…
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Peanut Butter Banana Surprise
Surprise! There is no peanut butter… unless you want peanut butter 🙂 I use almond butter instead but I avoided the hassle of explaining this to my PB loving toddlers when I made up the name. This is one of our go-to after school snacks. It also appears on our breakfast menu when I’m too…
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Quick Pickle
Adding pickled vegetables to a dish is a great way to enhance the flavor. The sour notes play nicely with sweet and spicy – like topping spicy tacos with pickled radishes/onions and pomegranate seeds. They also lighten up heavier dishes – think of how good that pickle tastes on a juicy burger. I like to…
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Sweet and Spicy Plum Sauce
Sometimes all you need to do is make a sauce. This sauce in particular. Why? Because there is so much you can do with this delicious sweet and spicy, fruity combo. It’s amazing as a sauce for chicken, pork or fish, or toss it with your side dish. Forget using store bought teryaki sauces or…
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Vegan Carrot & Orange Muffins
So the boys had a nap today! And what did I do? I’d love to say I cleaned all the things that need cleaning or maybe acknowledged the massive pile of laundry that is permanently installed in my hallway, but no. Instead I binged watched Netflix, had a cup of tea and ate two of…
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Veggie Pancakes
When attempting to feed toddlers (or children of any age because I love them too!) one should prepare themselves for war. My weapon of choice – the veggie pancake. As a necessity of survival (for everyone involved) one must have a recipe in your arsenal that you know your kids will eat and you feel good…
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Crispy Chickpeas
Since I was pregnant with the boys, I suffered from pretty bad sciatic pain. Last October I was looking into different treatments and ended up reading about how grains in our diet can cause inflammation in our bodies….interesting. I decided to try a 30 day grain free diet. It was so successful that we ended up going 60…
Tamara Silverstein 