Instant Pot Dutch Oven White Chicken Chili

Instant Pot Dutch Oven White Chicken Chili

Posted on by Chris Pollard

Honestly, I was never terribly interested in white chili with chicken in my whole life. Then I tried one last fall when my wife’s department made one for a chili cook-off at work. It was awesome, and took second place overall.

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I looked at a ton of recipes and scraped ideas here and there and pieced together something I thought would be delicious. I just flat out stole the America’s Test Kitchen recipe for the dumplings. The video is here if you want to watch it.

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Air Fryer Potato Chips – Worth It?

Air Fryer Potato Chips – Worth It?

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I love potato chips.

There. I said it. They’ve been an eternal weakness in my life for as long as I can remember. There’s just something about that crunch.

They’re not something wildly complicated to make, but they’re cheap and easier to just buy, right? Well, yes. But it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it at home anyway.

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Lockdown-friendly Halifax-style Donairs (Travel to Nova Scotia Not Required)

Lockdown-friendly Halifax-style Donairs (Travel to Nova Scotia Not Required)

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Sadly, I have never been to Nova Scotia.

I have never had the chance to have an authentic Halifax donair.

But I’ve made it to New Brunswick and had donairs there a few times. Greco’s does a good job, to my tastebuds at least. Nova Scotians would probably scream blasphemy at that.

Anyway, that will have to be my frame of reference until I can get a Blue Noser over to taste these. (Luckily, I have family who qualify!)

So, what the heck is a donair?

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Everyone Needs Shortbread In Their Lives

Everyone Needs Shortbread In Their Lives

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Shortbread. I don’t get the name. It’s not bread, it’s a cookie! But nomenclatures aside, they’re freakin’ delicious.

I’ve always enjoyed when Christmas rolled around and store shelves would be filled with boxes of little shortbread fingers. Probably the best thing to come out of Scotland, right after bagpipes.

Think All Vegan Things Suck? That’s Not The Queso!

Think All Vegan Things Suck? That’s Not The Queso!

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It all started innocently enough. Walking past the cooler section at Costco, hoping to spot a big container of peach-mango salsa. (Spoiler: did not find it.) But there it was … Good Foods “Queso-style Dip.”

This. This rocked my world in unexpected ways.

When you live in a home with the lactose-intolerant, you pay attention to any non-dairy cheese-like product.

That’s how it all started.

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Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Oatmeal Cookies

Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Oatmeal Cookies

Posted on by Chris Pollard

These are probably my wife’s favourite cookies. And they’re really, really easy to make.

My daughter has also discovered, through various attempts, that it’s also really easy to create things that do not resemble cookies through carefully not measuring things or quadrupling the amounts of one ingredient. It’s really just best not to ask about those.

But for the record, quadrupling the amount of cocoa powder results in a substance that almost resembles fudge. Almost. It was … uh … interesting.

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