All posts by Laura Crawford

Laura is photographer, blogger, writer and kid wrangler. She also happens to be a VancouverMom.ca Top 30 Mom Blogger, a Food Bloggers of Canada member and VKFW Magazine contributer. She will bake for anyone and everyone and will likely attempt to decorate any given space she can.

How To Make Magnolia Syrup From Magnolia Flowers

Magnolia syrup is made from the beautiful, but quickly discarded petals of the magnolia flower and tastes like a ginger infused simple syrup. With only three ingredients it is super easy and quick to make. And requires surprisingly few petals to make a small batch.

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How To Make A Delicious Spiced Apple Peel Jelly

There is nothing quite like the feeling of getting something from nothing or at least having less waste to compost. I always feel like the peels and cores can amount to a fair amount. So I was pretty pleased when I was able to successfully make a delicious apple jelly from nothing but the peels, cores and seeds (often leftover from making apple butter).

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Broccoli and Cheddar Soup

Broccoli cheddar soup pin

Cream of broccoli or broccoli cheddar soup was always a fave growing up for me. And since I have two kids who actually like broccoli, I have been searching for an amazing make at home recipe. I would try a few, find them underwhelming, ultimately get frustrated and not revisit the process again until the next winter. Eventually I found myself making it a mission to make a great recipe, because I could never quite find ‘the one.’ This however is THE ONE. The exact one. My wait for the perfect make at home broccoli soup is over. And the repeated recipe testing until perfect has paid off!

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Amazing Homemade Fresh LEMON CURD With Yolks

fresh lemon curd

Homemade lemon curd. This recipe came about when we happily found ourselves with a double bag of lemons and half a dozen yolks leftover from a previous baking project. I wanted a curd that used up my excess yolks and not whole eggs. The deliciousness that was born from this was amazing!

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Baked Brie with Maple and Pecans

Baked maple pecan brie in a bread bowl

Maple Pecan baked brie has been a go to appetizer since the first time I made it. It’s wonderful, not to mention wonderfully easy. Even back when the idea of making an appetizer would throw me into a cold sweat, this maple pecan brie stepped up to save the day time and again.

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Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cookie House

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I like to have fun with all sorts of cookie houses. I have long since moved on from only classical gingerbread houses to other combinations. And today’s winning combination is chocolate and peanut butter!

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No Fail Orange Buttermilk Loaf

Orange buttermilk loaf

We call this orange bread. And it’s delicious! It’s like a pound cake, with the most wonderfully dense centre and incredible crust. Any citrus -buttermilk combo will work, but I am particularly partial to orange. Which I think says a lot about this particular loaf, because I am almost never partial to orange.

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