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Spiced Sweet Potato Chocolate Cake

christinajbartlett — Wed, 13 May 2015 01:20:06 +0000

It dawned on me, after three years of living in Canada, that we don’t get kumara here. We have sweet potato (yellow kumara) and yams (orange kumara) but none of the beautiful dark red/purple skinned potatoes we get back home. The typical New Zealand kumara, which we used to roast alongside lamb for Sunday dinner […]

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cinnamon chai bundt cake

christinajbartlett — Fri, 16 May 2014 04:13:19 +0000

I’ve been flicking through the pages of the latest Little & Friday Cookbook, themed Celebrations and full of wonderful, celebratory recipes for a host of occasions. And every time I bookmark yet another recipe that needs to be tested, ie that I am dying to taste. Chocolate Beetroot Salted Caramel Cake for a Chocolate 21st, […]

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chocolate layer cake {paleo} with avocado chocolate ganache

christinajbartlett — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 06:15:34 +0000

What follows is a recipe for a chocolate cake. A cake that also happens to be paleo (you know, grain-sugar-dairy free), which is said as an aside to the fact that it is a delicious, hearty and decadent chocolate cake topped with dark, rich ganache and tart pomegranate arils. It was a celebration of Jesse’s […]

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chocolate caramel bacon cake

christinajbartlett — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:23:40 +0000

With all this Paleo talk going on, I’ve been thinking about bacon. And reading about bacon (scroll down towards the end of the article for the more interesting part on saturated fat and cholesterol). Still not sure if it should appear in my diet much more than it does (rarely, in tiny portions tossed through […]

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pearl barley & berry cake

christinajbartlett — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 01:08:47 +0000

Deuteronomy 8:7-9 – For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; 8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9 a land where bread will not be scarce and you will […]

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twentythree & a chocolate quinoa cake

christinajbartlett — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:37:37 +0000

Today is my birthday, twenty three years old. This day last year Jesse and I were terribly homesick. We missed the New Zealand winter and spent the Canadian mid-summer day indoors with the curtains closed, a fireplace crackling away on YouTube and a rainy soundtrack playing. This time around we are much more accustomed to […]

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dark chocolate {red velvet} beet cake

christinajbartlett — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 01:46:35 +0000

I came across an old, mini bundt tin while perusing a thrift store in San Francisco. Before our vacation we made a decision to be frugal with our shopping, avoiding it as much a possible. There was one condition that Jesse agreed on – vintage kitchenware could not be passed up. So when I stumbled […]

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coconut raspberry cake & woollen snowflakes

christinajbartlett — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:18:04 +0000

Today marks six months in Norman Wells. As cliche as it sounds, it totally felt just like yesterday that we stepped off Canadian North into a winter wonderland. Except at that point we saw it as a petrifying white-out. The snow was thick (and made it hard to get into our new house), the river […]

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healthy & hearty carrot cake with yogurt icing

christinajbartlett — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:52:16 +0000

You can’t really go wrong with carrot cake! There are few people who wouldn’t eagerly dig in to a slice of hearty carrot cake, topped with cream cheese icing. It is an awfully simple cake, and a fantastic way to use up those soggy looking carrots in the bottom of the vege drawer. Sadly I […]

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tiramisu cake

christinajbartlett — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:43:11 +0000

I have never in my life not known where I will be in two weeks and onwards. Never. Within the next few days, J and I will find out where in the expansive Northwest Territories we will be living and what jobs we will have for the next 3 to 4 years. This, I tell […]

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