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The recipes we actually cook.

Canadian desserts

Neapolitan strips

This is a recipe from our childhood: a three-layer icebox cookie, chocolate, vanilla, and cherry, chilled in a log and sliced.

Prep2h
Cook7–10m
Dutch desserts

Oliebollen

These are a sort of deep-fried doughnut. Various western European cultures make a variant of these around the holidays, and some call them a New Year’s cookie.

Mennonite breads

Oma’s kipfels

A Kipfel is traditionally a crescent-shaped yeast bread, one of the oldest styles of pastries.

Indian bases

Onion base for curries

Many curries have a chunky onion base (like Balti). We use this when riffing on curries, as it’s an easy build, freezes well, and adds a bunch of flavour to any gravy-like dish.

Cook1h
Canadian desserts

Our favourite chocolate chip cookies

What else is there to say! Once we found this recipe, it became our family favourite. You can use vanilla, chocolate, or butterscotch pudding depending on the type of cookie you’re craving, and mix up the chips for even more variety.

Cook10–12m
appetizerssides

Oven-roasted corn

This recipe works for most vegetables, though corn is a slightly special case as it needs a bit longer than most veg. It sounds simple (and is), but the trick is to get the corn to brown and char a bit, for those summer roasting flavours.

Prep20–60m
Cook30m
USA mains +2

Pan-fried chicken burger

This is a sort of copy-cat recipe of the BK classic chicken sandwich, which is a lightly breaded, pepper-forward, minced patty made from mostly white meat. I like them with fresh onion, mustard, lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, and mayonnaise. …

Serves9 burgers
Canadian sauces

Panago-style jalapeño cheese dip

There’s this Canadian franchise that makes a very classic style of pizza: thick crust, tonnes of sauce and toppings, everything that isn’t a New York-style pizza. They make a jalapeño dip that I miss when we order from somewhere else. This …

Canadian desserts

Peanut butter Nanaimo bars

A Nanaimo bar with a peanut butter middle layer in place of the custard. A family recipe, checked against a Food Network version.

Cook6m
Chilean condiments

Pebre (Chilean red salsa)

Our take on pebre, the Chilean table salsa: a fresh, chunky tomato salsa sharpened with lime, lemon, and a splash of red wine vinegar. It’s better after a rest in the fridge, once the onion mellows and the juices come together.

Prep30m
Ukrainian mains

Perogies

This recipe is from an old family recipe card. Not our family, of course, but from a random internet stranger’s family.