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Crispy Sweet Potato Fries With Curry Aioli

Sweet potato fries are so delicious, especially if they're well seasoned, crispy and served with a curry aioli for dipping. Mmm...these are actually baking while I am writing this post and I am so hungry I cannot even wait for these babies to come out of the oven. Let's jump right into it. There is a few tips and tricks to making crispy oven baked sweet potato fries. One is soaking/rinsing the starch off the sweet potatoes, as you would do with regular potatoes when making fries...right? 😉 Another is ensuring they're as dry as possible before adding seasonings and oil, and tossing the uncooked fries in a bit of corn starch. Lastly baking on a piece of parchment paper and not flipping them until the last half of mins of cooking. Patients is key. They're not a quick dish by any means, but they're delicious and totally worth it. Start by peeling, cutting the pointy ends off and giving the potatoes a quick rinse. If your potato is really long, chop

All Kinds of Kale Chips

Let's talk about kale baby, let's talk about you and me, let's talk about all the good things and the bad things that kale may be... let's talk about kale... My apologies, that happens from time to time, Salt-N-Pepa just pop into my head and take over my thoughts. I'm sure i'm not alone...right? 80's kids where you at? Any-who, but for real let's talk about Kale. Let's just start off the conversation talking about the elephant in the room.. I have a confession to make.... I may have been a kale skeptic, anti kale, made statements in the past such as "no one actually likes kale" or "Kale is hipster food" and to be honest my feelings towards kale have not changed a whole lot, but i'm a little more open minded since I tried kale chips for the first time. Like I now enter kale land with my eyes not completely open, but not completely closed...more like ajar. Feel me? I tried making kale chips for the first time probably ab

The Best Marinated BBQ Chicken Caesar Salad with Homemade dressing

Chicken marinated, grilled then paired with a delicious Caesar salad with homemade dressing.

Naan Bread Pizza Two Ways

BBQ Chicken Sun Dried Tomato Naan bread is the perfect vehicle for a variety of delicious toppings, the best part is you can keep it in the freezer and grab a piece or two whenever you need it. Today i'm making a BBQ chicken version using left over BBQ chicken from dinner the other night. The recipe for that will for sure be coming soon, it was incredible...not to toot my own horn sorta speak but, it was seriously delicious. I will also be making a sun dried tomato pizza, if you're not a tomato fan don't dismiss this pizza too quickly sun dried tomatoes offer a huge amount of flavour and don't actually taste like a tomato, well I don't think they do.  Let's start with the sun dried tomato pizza. Grab yourself a baking sheet and cover it with foil, because quick clean up that's why. As I mentioned before I freeze my naan bread so I pulled out a naan for each pizza I was making and set it on the baking sheet. By the time I was done prepping

Perfect Slow Cooker Roast Beef and Gravy

Whenever I make a roast beef dinner I think about back in the day when roast beef was a Sunday dinner, because it took a long time to cook, prepare the sides etc. But that's not really an issue anymore since slow cookers became a thing. In my recipe I do the beef and potatoes all together takes about maybe 5 minutes of prep time and that's it. To have your complete roast beef dinner all you need to do closer to dinner time is make a vegetable and Yorkshire pudding (if that's your thing...and it should be) and finish up your gravy. I feel like slow cookers became huge then they were recently kind of replaced by Instant Pot's... Yes Instant Pots are great but their slow cooker function is not the best. Well mine isn't anyway.  I am actually making this on a Sunday, but I have many times, made this a week night for dinner. Roast isn't just for Sunday's anymore! To start, grab your roast, i'm using a sirloin tip roast and toss it in your crock pot. Se