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Foodie Bucket List: My First Ragù Sauce

June 8, 2017 by Suzie the Foodie 2 Comments

I thought the perfect thing to top my first polenta with would be my first ragù sauce. That way I would get to check off TWO items from my Foodie Bucket List. What is ragù exactly? “Ragù is a class of Italian pasta sauces made with ground or minced meat, vegetables and, occasionally, tomatoes.” Sounds do-able! I turned […]

Foodie Bucket List: How To Make Polenta With Cornmeal

June 5, 2017 by Suzie the Foodie 5 Comments

I had no idea when I added polenta to my Foodie Bucket List that it was going to be such a complex journey. Just like when I started doing research for making bagels, everyone not only has a different approach to making polenta, there are different main ingredients to take into consideration. Cornmeal? See you can make […]

Foodie Bucket List: Vanilla Mille Crêpe Cake with Blueberry Sauce

May 31, 2017 by Suzie the Foodie 8 Comments

Mille Crêpe Cakes are all over the internet. Soft and pillowy crêpes stacked on top of each other with pastry cream layered in between… So beautiful and dramatic. I wanted to not only see how delicious it tasted but try making one myself. I had no idea what a pain in this ass this cake […]

Foodie Bucket List: Vanilla Pastry Cream Filling

May 30, 2017 by Suzie the Foodie 6 Comments

Many times I have watched Anna Olson make pastry cream on Sugar and Bake, but I realized I had never made a post about it so I added it to my Foodie Bucket List. I made it for another item on the list, Mille Crêpe Cake, which I will be posting tomorrow. I took the pastry cream […]

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Recipe & Tutorial

May 24, 2017 by Suzie the Foodie 6 Comments

This is the most delicious time of year! Still cool enough to bake a pie and the strawberries and rhubarb are just starting to show up at our local farmers markets. This is our favourite pie and I baked it to enjoy over the long weekend. Thought it was time to add it to my […]

DIY Deli-Style Sour Pickles

May 9, 2017 by Suzie the Foodie 9 Comments

One of the first foods I binged on as a kid was pickles. I ate so many, my dad took me to the hospital, convinced the acid would eat a hole in my stomach! Years ago I taught myself how to make my mom’s sweet pickles but this time, I wanted to learn how to […]

Crazy Monday!!!

May 8, 2017 by Suzie the Foodie 3 Comments

I have a crazy day ahead with meeting a friend for lunch and then starting a new art class so I leave you with this episode of stART with my sisters. It contains a foodie spoiler: I live taste test my sour deli-style pickles (foodie bucket list) to see if I like them! Click here […]

Foodie Bucket List: How To Make Homemade Bagels

May 4, 2017 by Suzie the Foodie 9 Comments

Bagels. I knew that I wanted bagels to be the first thing I accomplished on my Foodie Bucket List. I asked all sorts of people for advice and opinions. A lot of people said they were straight forward but the more I looked into it, the more I realized nobody makes them the same way. […]

Suzie the Foodie’s Foodie Bucket List

May 3, 2017 by Suzie the Foodie 10 Comments

I went through my culinary books and came up with a foodie bucket list of everything I want to learn how to make. A lot of this list is comprised of things I already know and have blogged about, it is just going to take me a while to track down all the links. No […]

Homemade Blueberry Sauce with Blueberry Liqueur

April 27, 2017 by Suzie the Foodie 8 Comments

Although this sauce is made with a liqueur, it can easily be made with blueberry juice or just with blueberries to create this stunningly delicious sauce that will be better than anything you buy in a store. The Inspiration Reg received this beautiful bottle of Okanagan Spirits Craft Distillery Blueberry Liqueur as a gift and I wanted to […]