22nd Annual Chili Cook Off This Friday!
The time has come again, my friends, that I will be heading downtown to judge the annual chili cook off, something I look forward to every fall. The weather is usually starting to get miserable and...
View ArticleWin Tix To Friday’s Rocky Mountain Food & Wine Fest!
You didn’t have anything planned for Friday night. I know this. You know this. Why not head to the Edmonton Rocky Mountain Food and Wine Festival? I have TWO pairs of tickets up for grabs this year...
View ArticleThe Winners of the Food & Wine Fest Tickets Are…
Time to announce the two couples who are having a fabulous time on Friday at the Rocky Mountain Food & Wine Festival! I will be going early on, so you might just see me there after 4, if you do,...
View ArticleAnd Here She Be
You like how I did that? Asked on my Facebook page if all my lovely readers wanted me to post a long, drawn out post about my new vehicle or a fast n’dirty one, then totally took off for the...
View ArticleThe Kitchen Magpie’s Crazy For Christmas Giveaway Spree!
To celebrate the launch of the newest part of my website, The Recipe Roost, I have created a fantastic gift giveaway spree here on the Kitchen Magpie! Oh, have I been waiting to announce this! I just...
View ArticleCrazy For Christmas Giveaways #1-3 on the Recipe Roost!
It’s really hard to keep track of everything on Facebook and Twitter and some of my readers have missed my giveaways. Which is terrible! The whole point of this Crazy for Christmas giveaway blitz is...
View ArticleCrazy For Christmas Winners Round 1
Alright time for the winner winner chicken dinners! The Pottery Barn Card goes to: Comment #46: Mary Koehn says: Entry #2 – Pomegranate and Feta Salad Two Ferrero Gift Packs Go To: Comment #16: angela...
View ArticleNo Talking Tuesday: The Joys of Sledding
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View ArticleMerry Christmas From the Magpie Family
Merry Christmas from my family to yours! May your holiday season be full of laughter and love, family and friends and of course, food and wine galore!The post Merry Christmas From the Magpie Family...
View ArticleIce Fishing With Kids Can Be Like Poking Yourself in the Eye with a Treble Hook.
First of all, I would like to thank my Dad. Thank you for the countless years of ice fishing as a child. Thank you for having patience and teaching not just one, but three kids how to ice fish while...
View ArticleWhat’s Black & White & Keyed All Over?
What’s the difference between a piano and a fish? You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish! Ba-dam ba-bum! This post is so very picture heavy because at the same time I plan the 2013 Culinary Arts...
View Article10 Reasons Why You Should Take Cooking Classes With Chef Dave Omar
Last Sunday Mike and I woke up, yawned, threw the kids in the car, dumped them off at a friend’s house and proceeded to head into downtown Edmonton to Zinc restaurant at the Alberta Art Gallery for our...
View Article10 Reasons Why You Should Buy Your Puff Pastry
I’m completely serious. Go and buy your puff pastry. During the amazing cooking class with Chef Omar of Zinc in which we made puff pastry from scratch, Chef Omar held up his pre-created puff pastry and...
View ArticleWin tickets to WineFest 2013! (Contest closed)
Time for another super giveaway on the Recipe Roost! This time it’s to one of my favorite events, Winefest here in Edmonton, Alberta. What I have up for one lucky winner is two tickets (Valued at $140...
View ArticleThe Drive To Salt Lake City
O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain….. For purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood...
View ArticleSo…I’m Sorta Doing The Edmonton Home & Garden Show….
Ok, well not sorta. I AM going to be on the cooking stage at the Edmonton Home & Garden Show. Twice. I’ve been keeping this under the lid since I found out, partly because I am most definitely a...
View ArticleThe 2013 Culinary Arts Cook Off Winners!
One of the main reasons that my posts slow down and the recipes are a little few and far between for the month of March is because I head up a big Cook Off at my children’s school here in Edmonton. I’m...
View ArticleWant This Recipe? Come See Me At The Edmonton Home & Garden Show!
I’m a horrible, horrible tease. Just look at that picture. Drool a while. Dream of the chocolate. I’m going to tell you right now it tastes better than it looks, no word of a lie. And then wonder how...
View ArticleBurbot, Perch & Walleye, Oh My!
Most people think that drilling a hole in the ice only to sit over it with fishing line in the water, watching your little piece of lake bottom anxiously awaiting that first (if any) fish to show up...
View ArticleMagpie’s Easter Weekend Menu
It’s Good Friday morning, let the eating fest begin! If you are in any way like my family – who have descended upon me for the Easter weekend and we couldn’t be happier- Easter means wine, food and...
View ArticleIce Fishing at Lac St Anne
This past weekend – the very last weekend of the ice fishing season- was the only weekend I have been out ice fishing without my children. Did you see what I just wrote there? Without. My. Children....
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