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Celebrating the Chinese New Year with the Thai Kitchen Recipe Challenge!

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Thai Kitchen has brought back their #TKeveryday recipe challenge, for the second year, to help find the best Thai food around, to celebrate the Chinese New Year. This year they have chosen five mommy bloggers, to come up with 5 family friendly recipes each, and you get to VOTE to help choose the grand prize winner!

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I am a very busy mom, as I’m sure most of you are, and I love having help with choosing new recipes my family will love! The 25 new recipes, the mommy food bloggers have come up, look delicious! You can follow along with the recipe challenge and check out all the new recipes on Facebook and Twitter by following the #TKeveryday hashtag. Don’t forget to vote because there are some fabulous prizes up for grabs and the voting has already begun! I can’t wait to try some of the new recipes such as Sweet Iced Tea, Coconut Cupcakes, Thai Cocktail Meatballs, Peanut Satay Veggie Lettuce Cups and Coconut Jerk Shrimp! [Read more…]

World Foods International Fusion Recipe Swap Challenge!

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I don’t blog a lot about food, but, I couldn’t say no, when World Foods challenged me to swap recipes, with another blogger, from somewhere else in the world.  I had two pen pals in elementary school, and I loved writing to them, so this challenge brought back great memories for me. World Foods paired me with Mandy, of One Slice of Lemon, in the United Kingdom.

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We sent a lot of emails back and forth and I have to admit we had a little trouble coming up with unique recipes to swap, because so many of our meals are actually pretty similar, in England and Atlantic Canada!

In the end, Mandy decided I should try a traditional green curry recipe, since it is one of her favourite recipes! I have to admit I did swap a few ingredients for some of my favourites, and ones that are readily available here in Atlantic Canada. The dish was really easy to cook, since the main World Foods Green Curry sauce was already provided to me! [Read more…]