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Try this mysterious black drink which combines whisky, gin, and vermouth to create a warming beverage.

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The perfect brunch recipe, Mary Berg's Lemon Poppy Seed Dutch Babies are the no-fuss option you've been looking for.

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My favorite place in the world is our little family cottage up on a lake in northern Ontario. It’s the kind of place where afternoons are spent lazing about reading novels, dinners are usually a smorgasbord of whatever’s in the fridge, and beers are cracked by around two o’clock in the afternoon. While most meals tend to be a bit haphazard, breakfast is always a production. Pancakes are a classic, but standing in front of the stove flipping while everyone else gets down to a rousing game of euchre is kind of a bummer. Luckily, Dutch babies are here to save the day.

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Painting eggs can be time consuming and messy, but this DIY creates a stunning display and takes no time at all.

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Decorative Easter eggs (or Pisanki in Polish, which means to paint) is an important and fun tradition in our home each spring. It’s something I look forward to every Easter, as it brings me back to the times we spent decorating eggs when I was a little girl. Painting eggs can be time consuming and messy, but this DIY creates a stunning display and takes no time at all. With no paint involved, it’s mess-free. The secret is printable tattoo paper. To create custom Easter eggs, print your own art or words or visit monikahibbs.com/booktemplates to print the gorgeous floral blooms we’ve posted there for a hand-painted look. Simply follow the tattoo paper guidelines for printing alongside our instructions below.

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The cheese filling is creamy, a little bit sweet, and perfectly tart. Try this recipe from Gather at Home for your next brunch.

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It’s interesting how your taste buds can take you back in time. There are a number of recipes that bring me back to my childhood, and this is one of them. My mom often made these mascarpone-filled crepes as an early weekday dinner because the crepe batter was easy for her to whip up shortly before we would rush home from school. The cheese filling is creamy, a little bit sweet, and perfectly tart. As kids, we would always sprinkle some granulated or icing sugar on top

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Fluffy and flavorful, this recipe for matzo balls or kneidlach from Kosher Style is perfect served over chicken soup.

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Matzo balls (aka kneidlach) are the iconic Jewish recipe. People may not know a single Jew or a single thing about Judaism, but they will know what matzo balls look and taste like. And they usually want to know a little more about the Jewish culture once they’ve tried them (they’re that delicious). These are fluffy and flavorful, spiked with fresh parsley. I could be overselling them, but you may want to convert, is all I’m saying.

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This recipe for chicken and chickpea curry from Peace, Love and Fibre, has a spice blend that makes for a flavourful dish.

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My Mom called herself a "plain cook." She thought pepper was an exotic spice. When I tasted Indian cuisine for the first time, it blew my mind. The flavour combinations rocked my taste-bud world and made me a fan for life.

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These beans add an enormous amount of protein to the table. With it's rich, garlicky flavor, it is best served with white rice.

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A vat of these beans adds an enormous amount of protein to the dinner table on whatever night you serve it, along with a profusion of rich, garlicky flavor. Those who eschew pork can replace the ham hock and bacon with a smoked turkey wing. Those who avoid meat altogether can add a little salt at the end. The beans are superlative with white rice, which can make for a meal in itself, especially if paired with a crisp green salad and, crucially in my view, buttered toast. Hot sauce is mandatory.

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This dish is perfect for weeknight cooking. The best part is that it's made in one large skillet and really easy to make.

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Top these clusters with milk and eat them like cereal, mix them into yogurt, or even eat them on their own as a delicious snack!

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At the intersection of sticky and crunchy, you will find these highly addictive granola crack clusters. Some of this entirely grain-free granola will crumble (as expected), but it’s those small clusters that get stuck together in the baking process that you won’t be able to stop eating. You can top them with milk and eat them like cereal, mix them into your favorite yogurt, or use them as a garnish on a smoothie bowl. They also make for a delicious snack on their own.

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These twice-baked beans with the addition of kombu, is delicious as a side dish, or over roasted potatoes with a fresh salad.

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On my sister Rebekah and brother-in-law Peter’s Maine homestead, the copy of Woodstove Cookery: At Home on the Range by Jane Cooper isn’t just dog-eared, it’s cleaved in two, broken apart at page 144 because of Pete’s regular use of the baked beans recipe, which he prepares in the wood-fired brick bread oven he built outside. Cooper credits this recipe to Leila MacGregor of Tunbridge, Vermont, who in turn calls it “an old Vermont family recipe.” Besides preferring to use home-grown beans (Jacob’s cattle variety beans are particularly good for this treatment), Peter’s only deviation is in the sweetener: he uses slightly less molasses than the original recipe calls for and maple syrup (of course) instead of sugar. I take the sweetener down a touch more and add a little vinegar for brightening—plus smoked paprika to approximate the work of the traditional salt pork. Oh, and in keeping with the bean-cooking techniques taught to me by Rebekah (and later proven true by America’s Test Kitchen), I put in a little kombu to help soften the beans during their first cooking. Yes, these are twice-baked—first until tender with little other seasoning and then veeeeeerrrrrry slowly with the spices and sweeteners. If you want to shortcut it, use a pressure cooker for the first go and a slow cooker for the second—or an Instant Pot, in two rounds, for the whole shebang. To be even more authentic, fire up the wood oven and/or use a stoneware bean pot.