Chocolate dough shaped into pretzels and sprinkled with crunchy sugar looks like the familiar salty snack. However, the delicious surprise is that they are not-too-sweet cookies instead.
Sandi Fiolka of Okotoks, Alta., just loves cookies – reading about them, planning to make them, shopping for ingredients, baking them and especially eating them!
With store-bought cake, this dessert will be ready before you know it, making it a quick, no-fuss choice for a dinner party.
There's no fresher summer dish than a cool soup featuring just-picked peas. If the chives are blooming, snip off the edible purple blossoms to use as garnish. For vegetable stock, we suggest a light-coloured bouillon made from either powder or cubes or a homemade stock so the soup retains the purest green colour. Canned vegetable stock's reddish hue will darken the soup.
This portable sandwich fills the bill for fun picnic fare. A make-ahead filling rolled up in easy no-rise dough is sliced into pretty pinwheel servings to enjoy warm or cool.
This chowder is inspired by pot pie, but instead of baking the pastry-topped casserole, the pastry and filling are made separately and assembled at the last minute. If you're in a rush, you can serve the chowder with crusty rolls instead.
If you aren't fond of blue cheese, substitute sharp Canadian Cheddar cheese. Have the ham sliced at the deli counter so that it is a little thicker than the pre-sliced variety.
If fresh cherries are unavailable, substitute jarred sour cherries and juice. For a bit of crunch, top with toasted chopped hazelnuts or Brazil nuts.
