January 2012

Guest Bloggers: Brooke’s Aunt Jerri’s Bouillabaise Soup

January 31, 2012 Seafood

You may or may not have noticed a severe lack of seafood recipes over here on Planet Byn. Seeing as how my whole family is from the Maritimes, my seafood aversion is pretty much a genetic mystery. The only fish I eat is plain white: tilapia, halibut, grouper, mahi mahi. So Brooke is here […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Speculaas

January 29, 2012 Baked Sunday Mornings

I really have no frame of reference for these cookies. I’ve never flown with Delta, so I haven’t crossed paths with “the greatest snack in the sky“. And in the last year when Biscoff recipes started popping up on food blogs (in both spread and cookie form), I honestly had no idea what they were talking […]

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Banana Coffee Cake with Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Streusel

January 24, 2012 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing

Back in the Fall, I began tackling recipes that had been loitering in my Favourites folder for way too long (cough Oatmeal Cream Cheese Butterscotch Bars cough). Then Christmas Cookie season took over, and there wasn’t really any extra time for this little project, and it got put on hold.

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Pulled Braised Beef & Onions

January 22, 2012 Beef & Pork

It’s currently 76 degrees in my condo (without the heat on) and the sun is shining in here, lighting the whole place up (and showing me all the places I need to dust, but whatever). Can this really be January? The month when we’re supposed to want to hibernate and eat comfort food?

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Faux Fried Chicken + Brown Sugar Bacon Waffles

January 19, 2012 Chicken & Turkey

It’s been well documented that I love awards shows over here on Planet Byn, and that I consider the Golden Globes to be the Superbowl of award season. Of course, delicious eats are in order to watch the red carpet and ponder the reasons why Jessica Biel decided to wear her great-great-great-great grandmother’s wedding dress.

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Pecan Tassies

January 15, 2012 Baked Sunday Mornings

It’s been way too long since my first Baked Sunday Morning, so we’re diving right back in for 2012 with these Pecan Tassies! Basically what we have here is a super duper cute mini pecan pie, made with an easy butter and cream cheese dough and a brown sugar pecan filling. (P.S. It sounds way more posh […]

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Cinnamon Rolls

January 14, 2012 Bread

My track record with yeast has not been that great. I thought I had things under control when I made pizza dough back in the summer, but then the next time I made it the dough was too wet, and on the third attempt it was too dry. I hate wasting ingredients, so I was […]

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Baked Rigatoni & Meatballs

January 8, 2012 Pasta & Noodles

On a Sunday night in January, what more could you ask for? I’m such a sucker for baked pasta, and this has everything: tasty meatballs mixed with veggie loaded tomato sauce and pasta, covered with cheese. I actually made this back in November, but I so wish I was having this for dinner tonight. My […]

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Chicken Enchiladas & Spanish Rice

January 5, 2012 Chicken & Turkey

The last time I made enchiladas must have been about eight years ago. I was trying to re-create what I was frequently eating at Mexican chain restaurants near my office, and the version I came up with (pieced together from a few recipes on allrecipes.com) was okay, but I remember it being very messy and time […]

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Slowcooker Chicken Tikka Masala

January 2, 2012 Chicken & Turkey

Happy 2012 all! I love January, because even though I don’t believe in New Years resolutions, I love the re-set that comes with the beginning of the year. I also love this time of year in the kitchen; the stress fun of Christmas cookie baking is over and it’s all about warm, delicious comfort food.

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