Recipes by Karen Moore

	Nanaimo Bars: The Real Deal by Karen Moore There are two three many things I miss about Canada; My friends, Tim Horton’s coffee, Montréal Smoked Meat Sandwiches, and the ubiquitous presence of Nanaimo bars at every donut shop and coffee house in the country. Every once in a wonderful while, a friend will send me a tin of Tim Horton’s coffee. My husband even had a tin shipped…	1 vote 1035 views
	Thai Curry and Coconut Butternut Squash Soup by Karen Moore I have a bit of a problem. I don’t think it requires a twelve step intervention, but still, it complicates my life sometimes. I really can’t pass up a good sale at the supermarket. Laugh, giggle and find general amusement at my predicament all you like, but don’t judge me until you’ve walked a mile with my grocery cart and have 4…	1 vote 1489 views
	Just Chili by Karen Moore Sometimes it really is the simplest things that make me the happiest.In our home during October and November, the days are always filled to overflowing with activities; birthdays, anniversaries, school events, commitments at work, finding a cure for cancer, establishing world peace, etc, etc, etc. The weeks zip by and the weekends…	1 vote 1015 views
	Crispy Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies by Karen Moore It’s Christmas cookie season! Everyone is so excited!! I’m trying to blend in and pretend that I’ve been baking cookies for Christmas all my life!!!But that’s not exactly true. Actually that’s about as far from true as Russia is far from Alaska. I remember just two kinds of cookies around the Christmas holidays; a buttery almond…	1 vote 1192 views
	Bollito Di Manzo – Italian Boiled Beef with Tomato, Anchovy and Caper Sauce by Karen Moore Bollito Di Manzo – Italian Boiled Beef with Tomato, Anchovy and Caper SauceI’ve learned eleven really important things over the past few weeks:Just because this is Kansas does not mean that that it can’t get cold enough outside to freeze my eyelashes…	1 vote 1239 views
	Roman Egg-drop Soup – Stracciatella by Karen Moore Me and Italian food, we go way, way back; all the way back to the dusty, faded, Polaroid-tinted memories of my early youth in the 70’s. I spent my single digit years in one of Montreal’s most ethnically diverse neighborhoods, Park Extension, or Park Ex to those who have more pressing matters to attend to and don’t have time for three…	1 vote 961 views
	Chicken Noodle Soup Remedy by Karen Moore My day didn’t go exactly as planned, yesterday. Which isn’t all that uncommon for me since that fateful day a little over eleven years ago when I gave birth to my first child.Over the years I have discovered and mastered a key parental survival skill; the ability to change course and speed on a dime and without a grumble; at least not…	1 vote 961 views
	Polenta Mascarpone and the New All-Clad with d5 Technology by Karen Moore When someone at All-Clad tells you that something new and revolutionary is coming, you tend to perk up and listen. I definitely perked. And when someone at All-Clad asks if you would pretty-please mind trying out this new and revolutionary thingy and giving them some feedback on what you think about it, who am I to say no? This would…	1 vote 834 views
	My Favorite Chicken Salad by Karen Moore On the pendulum of taste, chicken salad has two extremes; dry and flavorless, or swimming in enough mayonnaise to make you almost believe that it’s not dry and flavorless. Somewhere in between lies perfection; moist, tender and bursting with flavor chicken salad with just enough mayo to hold everything together. A salad so good that…	2 votes 1604 views
	Pico de Gallo by Karen Moore Pico de GalloMontréal is not exactly the best place to get Mexican food in North America, so my experience with that particular cuisine was pretty much limited to the chips and salsa they served at my favorite pub, and after a few beers, everything tastes pretty darn good.Besides the huge skies, spectacular sunsets, oceans of grass…	2 votes 1753 views

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