Possibily the best banana muffins I've ever made

Hey there…it’s been a while. Today, on the umpteenth day of the coronavirus lock down, I decided to make banana muffins using the soon to be compost bananas on the counter and as little sugar, eggs and butter as possible. Frugality has always been a part of my DNA but these days it’s truly a necessity.

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Lemon turkey mini meatballs

I LOVE meatballs with or without sauce. I find they are a quick little energy boost packed with delicious flavor. It also helps that they are easy to make. This week I bought a pack of ground turkey (approximately a pound and a half of meat) and I remembered a recipe I had seen a few years ago on a food show in the South Pacific. The chef had used lemongrass and ginger and it always stayed with me. Seeing as I didn't have any lemongrass handy I decided to use the grated lemon rind and freshly squeezed lemon juice. It turned out even better than I expected. My husband and daughter devoured them.

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Tarte au saumon fumé enveloppé dans une pâte phyllo

I sat there remembering how as a child my dad and my uncle would go foraging in the woods for l'ail des bois and then spending countless hours cleaning and bottling them. I remembered my uncle serving up wapiti and other wild meats he had hunted. On the table there would always be a jar of ketchup au zucchinis and other home made delicacies.

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When life gives you limes...

My better half loves lemon pie and seeing as I love him to bits I thought I could make him a tart with all these limes. I looked up the recipe for key lime pie and then I looked up another and another...they ALL said the main ingredient other than limes was sweetened condensed milk! SCORE!

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Maple sweet potato cheesecake

I haven't made a cheesecake in a while and sometime last week, I wondered what it would be like to make a sweet potato cheesecake. I did some research, married the original pie recipe, that had sparked my curiosity , with a traditional cheesecake recipe, added an extra touch of maple and voilà.  THE BEST cheesecake I have made to date, PACKED with sweet potato! Miracles do exist!

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Olivia's chocolate chocolate chip cupcakes

Yesterday, all I could think of was making some heavenly vanilla cupcakes for the kids' lunch boxes. As I readied myself to make the cupcakes, I made the ''mistake'' of asking Olivia if she wanted a cupcake for lunch. The answer: ''YES! Chocolate please!''  In my head I was screaming NO... I want to make vanilla! Meanwhile, in the background, you could hear my son screaming for vanilla...GREAT! No problem...I can figure this out.

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Light and not-too-sweet yogurt cake

Did you know this chiquita used to make cake from a box? Yes, that's right I was Miss Box Mix before I matured into Ms H&W. Oh I knew people made cakes from scratch, my aunt for one, but I didn't think I had the skill set to pull it off. Alas, if I could only smack some sense into that younger self. As I delved into cooking and baking, I discovered people used stuff like yogurt and sour cream in their confections...who knew! I wasn't fond of yogurt so this was genius to me; a perfect way to hide the horrid stuff.

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Leche Flan...H&W's one year anniversary gift

When I first started blogging I wasn't sure what direction I was headed in. I figured I would simply blog about the things I loved to cook. However, there was one very cherished  recipe I have been debating all year whether to post or not; my mother's leche flan. It is the one recipe I keep in the hand mixer box and the one thing that I would maybe have to risk life and limb for if the house was burning down (of course AFTER I've made sure the kids, the hubby and the dog were safe and sound).

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