works of wanderlust

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  • Recipe: Classy Cordon Bleu

    The recipe has a different name in our collection, but as the kid pointed out half way through her portion last night “this is basically just fancy cordon bleu, right?” She pronounced it with an impeccable French tongue, too. I guess ten years of French Immersion school has finally paid off. But she’s not wrong.

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  • The Mustard Files: Spicy Spring Dijon

    I’m a bit of sucker for interesting mustards. In fact, it used to be I’d make a special trip to the local farmers market each spring to stock my pantry with a few variety of jars of flavoured mustards that would almost always last the year …but not much longer. The sad part is that

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  • Pan Fried Mushrooms

    I keep a cast iron pan near my barbecue for exactly one reason: my wife loves grilled mushrooms on her hamburgers. I know very well that a well-seasoned pan atop an outdoor gas grill has a whole host of purposes, but when you have a system like this that ain’t broke… why fix it? We

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  • Sweet Iced Coffee

    Here on the Canadian prairies the weather is as changeable as a simile about how changeable the weather can be. Just a few weeks ago there was snow on the ground. Today it is thirty degrees Celsius in the shade. That’s definitely not unbearable, nor unwelcome, but after a deep cold winter it can be

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  • Campfire Corn Roast

    Campfire Corn Roast

    My foray in to roasting vegetables over the fire veered into more traditional territory this afternoon after picking up a few ears of fresh corn from the grocery store. Step one was to remove the silk while leaving the husk as intact as possible. This is done by carefully peeling back each fibrous layer one

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