A convenient crockpot recipe for Quebecois style pea soup.  Similar to the pea soup that is a staple in the sugar shacks (cabane à sucre) of Quebec. Prepare this before you go to work and have wonderful pea soup ready for you for dinner!  This version takes 9 hours of cooking on low but...
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Easy microwave maple pudding!  This one was one of my experiments cooking with a microwave.  Now, I am normally use the microwave to reheat left-overs and not to prepare a nice dessert which is why I was so surprised this turned out so well.  The taste of butter mixes very nicely with the sweetness...
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This is wonderful bread recipe, one of my favorites. Ingredients: 350 ml of water 2 teaspoons salt 4 tablespoons maple syrup 3 teaspoons of milk powder 25 g butter 400 g flour 200 g whole wheat flour 2 teaspoons dried yeast 60 g pecans Place the light at the bottom of the tank. Measure...
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The is a typical dessert you might share with friends in Quebec. Of course being in Quebec we use maple sugar made from the famous Canadian maple tree instead of cane sugar in this classic French dessert. Ingredients to this updated French/Quebec classic: 6 egg yolks (just the yolk) 4 1/4 tbsp (60 g)...
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He makes it just like his grandaddy… Anyway, Virginia isn’t a huge syrup producing state but they obviously have a few faithful. It probably can’t be produced much further south since sap flow requires freeze and thaw cycles.
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So what is the Maple Syrup Diet?  Sometimes it is also called the Master Cleanser or the Lemonade Diet. It is a mind and body detoxification program created by Stanley Burroughs in the 1940′s and made popular by Beyonce and other Hollywood stars.  Burroughs believed that through a course of consuming only fresh lemons,...
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