Cooking with Karma with Karma Brown
Karma Brown wishes she
could say her specialty was beef bourguignon or homemade gnocchi with
tomato sauce she canned herself, but instead she is famous (at least in
her kitchen) for strawberry crisp and mac & cheese (although both
her three-year-old and husband like the boxed version almost as
much). She wants to experiment, to go beyond Taco Tuesdays, to master
pastry, to cook the perfect roast and to make memorable meals for her
family and she will learn to do all that using Chatelaine's recipes.
Baked pasta with spinach and artichoke: Gluten-free goodness
- Sat May 05 2012
- Karma Brown
We have a few gluten-free friends and family members who often share our table, so I’ve been stockpiling recipes that can work for everyone. And while some gluten-free meals leave me missing, well, gluten (read: tastiness), this creamy spinach and artichoke baked pasta was not one of them
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Saucy slow-cooker pot roast: Two for one recipe
- Sat Apr 28 2012
- Karma Brown
Why I’ve never cooked a roast before I have no idea. It’s so easy, right? It must go back to my lack of confidence around cooking meat, because unlike (most) others, I think overcooked meat is a good thing. However, I had faith in my slow cooker so off I went to the butcher
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Tandoori chicken burgers: Grilling season is here!
- Sat Apr 21 2012
- Karma Brown
There's nothing better than a homemade burger, fresh off the BBQ. Now I know there are those who barbeque year round, but we’re more fair-weather griller. Which is why when spring hits, we clean the grill and I hunt for a few new burger recipes
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Roast pork loin with bacon-cider gravy: Sunday night dinner
- Fri Mar 30 2012
- Karma Brown
We never did the Sunday night roast thing when I was growing up. Far too traditional for my hippie parents, I think. So while I love the idea of creating a Sunday dinner tradition, I needed something with a little more personality than pot roast and this fit the bill
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