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This recipe for a sweet roasted squash filled with a big puddle of melted butter and sweet maple syrup is just so irresistible!

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When I was growing up, my mother served a lot of canned vegetables, but the one thing she always made from scratch was acorn squash, which she roasted with butter and maple syrup. When I revisited her old method, I found it was just as good as I remembered. The sweet squash filled with a big puddle of melted butter and sweet syrup is so irresistible!

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Take your three day-old everything bagels to the next level by cutting them up into pieces and baking them with sausage and eggs.

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I have felt for a long time that everything bagel spice is the bomb. But I’ve never been that into eating an entire bagel—it’s just too much dough at one time. Cutting them up into pieces and baking them with sausage and eggs though . . . That, folks, is everything.

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While we’ve all been deep in the Dutch baby game for a while now (perfect for kids! perfect for parents! perfect for lovers!).

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While we’ve all been deep in the Dutch baby game for a while now (perfect for kids! perfect for parents! perfect for lovers! perfect for families of four in a bunker!), we’ll let David tell the backstory: “Many years ago, I worked at a seaside inn/restaurant on Vancouver Island called Sooke Harbour House. The deal was sweet: seaside, local day-boat fish, several gardeners on staff, foragers, all food was from a 5K surrounding area except the chocolate, orange juice, and coffee. ‘You can’t run an inn without chocolate, orange juice, or coffee, David,’ Frédérique Philip, the innkeeper’s wife, would say to me. The kitchen had windows, an ocean view, plants, hippie murals of children playing, and people seemed very happy.

“This was odd for me as I had come from the hell kitchens of other men’s misery, competitive kill-or-be-killed environments, and was now getting big hugs from other cooks in the morning over seaside coffee. All that smiling was off-putting. Today, I credit Sooke Harbour House as the restaurant that most affected the cooking I did and still kind of do: loose menu, market-driven, an emphasis on the positive mental health of staff.

“Having been brought up in French kitchens, I had never seen a Dutch baby, but they were made daily at Sooke Harbour House: breakfast babies, herb and cheese babies, crab babies, clam babies, mushroom babies (to accompany roasted meats in lieu of a starch), dessert babies with foraged berries. Satisfying to cook and even better to eat.”

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These adorable cookie recipes are easy to assemble and make fantastic host gifts.

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These adorable cookie recipes are easy to assemble and make fantastic host gifts. Fill the jars with everything you need to make homemade cookies, and the recipient can bake them whenever it is convenient. I’ve included three recipes that vary in colour, taste and texture, so giving the full set is even more generous! You’ll need a 4-cup (1 L) mason jar for each recipe.

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These cake-like cookies are already tasty enough to be a treat on their own, but the cream cheese filling makes them even better.

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These soft, cake-like cookies are already tasty enough to be served as a treat on their own, but the cream cheese filling makes them even better. They look stunning on a holiday dessert table.

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Nothing says holidays like a baked Brie. So much so that this board has two!

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Most of the boards in this book do not include anything hot. The whole point is to be able to prep everything before your guests arrive so you can spend more time with them and less time in the kitchen. But this board is an exception because nothing says holidays like a baked Brie. So much so that this board has two. Each brie could stand alone, but together they’re a showstopper. The added beauty is that they can still be prepared in advance and simply removed from the oven when you’re ready to serve. Pistachios, pecans and pomegranate arils are prominent Christmas flavors and pair beautifully with the Bries.

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Spanish food is made for gathering, and this Spanish board is designed to bring people together over a shared experience.

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Spanish food is made for gathering. Whether it be tapas bites or a pan of paella, Spanish food is designed to bring people together over a shared experience. Three cheeses—including the popular Drunken Goat—represent three distinct regions of Spain. A Spanish board would also not be complete without a spoon of quince paste for sweetness, a dish of olives for brine and the famous Spanish nut—the Marcona almond—for a rich crunch.