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Seven Layer Halva

December 22, 2012 By canadianmom Leave a Comment

Seven Layer Halva

Halle-lu-jah!  Halva-lu-jah!  One of my favourite Christmas time treats is halva! When I was a kid, there were three flavours – vanilla, chocolate and marbled. How exciting it was to see my mother unwrap the brown paper from the halva block and slice off small chunks for us to slowly savour. I really had no idea […]

Filed Under: Food, Holidays, The Cluttered Kitchen Tagged With: Christmas, desserts, halva, sesame seeds, seven layer halva

Visions of Sugarplums

December 24, 2008 By canadianmom

Visions of Sugarplums

I never liked Fig Newtons. They were nothing more than sad excuses for cookies that looked like tar folded into cardboard strips. They weren’t just unappealing, they were downright annoying, taking up valuable space in the cookie cupboard. How I longed to run them down with a box of Wagon Wheels. Although my Mother always […]

Filed Under: Food, Health & Wellness, Holidays Tagged With: Christmas, dates, figs, sugarplums

Hugs & Knishes

December 23, 2008 By canadianmom

Hugs & Knishes

  Why, when I have 364 days of the year to prepare for this, am I always drowning in a last-minute wave of Yuletide? I thought for once that this year would be different, as we have dramatically scaled down our festivities. With half of the family out of town, it should be quite a […]

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss, Entertainment, Food, Health & Wellness, Holidays Tagged With: Christmas

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December 2, 2014 By canadianmom Leave a Comment

Tonight was the last of my Zumba classes.  For the rest of the class, that is.  I had my last dance six weeks ago. I contemplated showing up for the final class, you know, just to show I am not a total quitter. But then I got sidetracked by my teriyaki chicken dinner, and my son’s […]

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Hairy Melon – Big, Hairy Deal!

November 26, 2009 By canadianmom Leave a Comment

As I’m peeling the skin from a Hairy Melon, I realize what a long way I’ve come from my childhood staples of carrots, corn and peas. More importantly, I realize what a long way my kids have come from where I had been at their ages. They eat more variety of vegetables and fruits than […]

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