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Happy Easter From Our Family to Yours!
Happy Easter everyone! May your day today be blessed with love, faith, family, food and laughter! This is my first Easter with the kids gone, so it’s a big difference for me, but not to worry, the kids are at their Grandparents in Phoenix soaking up the sun with the Easter Bunny!
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/happy-easter-from-our-family-to-yours/
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This Week at the Johnston’s
Well hello, how ARE you guys doing? I think it’s time to start writing something that I have been meaning to for months upon months, probably since my cookbook came out and things got insane and this website turned into four full time jobs for Mike and I. ( Yes,the math doesn’t a
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/this-week-at-the-johnstons/
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Happy Birthday to my First Teenager
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/happy-birthday-to-my-first-teenager/
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My #CatelliFamilies Story – The Video!!
I’ve had such an amazing year working with Catelli sharing my family’s love of pasta and sharing great tasting pasta recipes for you all. My own#CatelliFamilies story is one that many of us face; my children are picky eaters. What a pleasure it was to come together with Chef Mich
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/my-catellifamilies-story-the-video/
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Our Homeschooling Adventure – A Year End Round-up About Schooling
I’ve been asked to do a year-end summary by you, my readers, on our year of homeschooling. For those of you just tuning in, we pulled the kids out of school this past year and homeschooled them so that we could travel. We spent three months living in Phoenix this winter, enjoying
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/our-homeschooling-adventure-a-year-end-round-up-about-schooling/
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Homeschooling Update: Three Months In
I know that a lot of you have been waiting for an update and the God’s honest truth is that I have had a draft sitting in my files for two months now. I meant to do a two month update and now I’m late on the three months in, but heck, I’m going for it anyway.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/homeschooling-update-three-months-in/
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How Not To Do Pre-TV Selfies
Oh my goodness, the pictures I find when I start cleaning things out a little bit! Yes, it’s time for a bit of fall cleaning photo-wise (you think your house is messy? Good grief, come look at my computer!) and I’m sorting through old photos.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/how-not-to-do-pre-tv-selfies/
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My Reasons For Homeschooling: Travel, Bullying and Finding Peace
The title of this is rather obscure and I apologize for that, but it will all make sense by the end, I promise. I did this rather in a backwards format, posting about our first day of homeschooling rather than starting out with all the reasons why we chose to homeschooling this c
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/my-reasons-for-homeschooling-travel-bullying-and-finding-peace/
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Homeschooling: Day One.
We survived.
That’s really all that matters at this point.
To be honest, this is NOT the week to be doing any real in-depth analysis of homeschooling, in any way, shape or form. Mike and I are leaving for two weeks this Friday and have been going non-stop from dusk till dawn ge
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/homeschooling-day-one/
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My Sunday Table: Not So Winner Winner Chicken Soup For Dinner
Let me start by saying no, I didn’t mix up the photos in this post. It was supposed to read Chicken Soup for Dinner, absolutely.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/my-sunday-table-not-so-winner-winner-chicken-soup-for-dinner/
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My Sunday Table: Summer Approaches.
This Sunday Table features photos from last summer, because that’s how I roll. Oh, if you could only see how many photos go unpublished or unedited! I could have an entire new website full of them, I swear!
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/my-sunday-table-summer-approaches/
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Happy Siblings Day!
Happy siblings day everyone! Take a moment to appreciate those who had the misfortune luck to grow up with you!
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/happy-siblings-day/
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This One & That One
This one is getting so close to the teenage years it makes me want to weep daily. Stop growing so fast.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/this-one-that-one/
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How To Cook A Christmas Turkey – Arizona Style
When one is visiting their Grandparents in Phoenix right before Christmas and making a Christmas turkey to enjoy since you won’t see them on Christmas Day, a few things must be done.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/how-to-cook-a-christmas-turkey-arizona-style/
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A Canadian Resolution: Courage
The next segment of the Canadian Food Experience Project is about resolutions, fitting, as it is a brand new year full of promise and new horizons. However this year I find it hard to concentrate on a food goal or resolution, as there are so many things swirling above my head now
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/a-canadian-resolution-courage/
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The Weekend I Phoned in My Parenting
To be honest here, I have phoned in my parenting more than just this one weekend, but man, did we ever have a lazy Saturday this past weekend.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/the-weekend-i-phoned-in-my-parenting/
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The Can’t Fake a Smile To Save Your Life Gene
All we needed was one picture of Mr K to put on Facebook for his grandparents, showing them his adorable new glasses.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/the-cant-fake-a-smile-to-save-your-life-gene/
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Mom Fail: The Reality Behind Our “First Day of School” Pictures
Oh, us Moms. Whether we are bloggers or Facebookers or Tweeters, we have quite a few things in common.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/mom-fail-the-reality-behind-our-first-day-of-school-pictures/
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Back To School Lunch Blues…Already.
When the opportunity came up to try the New Mott’s Fruitsations + Veggie gummies that are brand spankin’ new on the shelves for the upcoming school year, I of course said yes.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/back-to-school-lunch-blues-already/
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Camping!
If you haven’t been away most of the summer or ignoring the multitude of cookie recipes I’ve been making, you surely are “in-the-know” that I have been camping almost every single weekend this summer. This is the first summer that we have a trailer and we are out at Gull Lake, so
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/camping-2/
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My Sunday Table: Simple Omelette Lunch
My Sunday table, the real actual table that is set on Sundays now, is usually a very casual affair. So casual that the kids might eat at the kitchen counter while Mike and I scarf back a sandwich then run off to tackle the mess we brought home from camping.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/my-sunday-table-simple-omelette-lunch/
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Smashburger Arrives!(Plus A Giveaway So YOU Can Go!)
When the email hit my inbox inviting me to the preview opening night for the new Smashburger location opening in Sherwood Park I couldn’t type my “yes!” reply fast enough. I can’t always make it to all the opening invites that I get (the babysitting wages alone would cost me a fo
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/smashburger-arrivesplus-a-giveaway-so-you-can-go/
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The Ladybug: A Story In Pictures
My family teases me for the constant clicking sound of my shutter, that sound that accompanies me where ever I go, indeed, it’s almost like wearing a signature perfume except you can hear me instead of smell me. Almost every family event is punctuated by a steady *click* sound in
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/the-ladybug-a-story-in-pictures/
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My Sunday Table:Breakfast in a Hurry
This Sunday I thought I would give you a sneak peek at my go-to breakfast when we are running late. Not the piece of toast clamped in your teeth running out the door kind of late – although that happens often in this household – but more resembling the “we only have 10 minutes fo
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/my-sunday-tablebreakfast-in-a-hurry/
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My Sunday Table: 1970’s Deviled Egg Version
This edition of My Sunday Table finds Edmonton shrouded in a gloomy, cloudy grey haze of rain, with small sunshine breaks interspersed between like a taunting child sticking out his tongue at you. Na-na-na- boo boo, sayeth Mr Sun, you can’t depend on me!
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/my-sunday-table-1970s-deviled-egg-version/
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My Sunday Table – The Introduction
Want to hear a dirty lil’ food bloggers secret?
One of the challenges I face as a food blogger is setting a nice table.
Yikes, there goes my food street cred, flying right out the window.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/my-sunday-table-the-introduction/
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Great Birthday Gift: Edmonton’s Best Basket
Buying birthday presents is hard and gets harder every year. Not to sound male here, but what DO you buy a woman you’ve been with for almost a couple of decades?
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/great-birthday-gift-edmontons-best-basket/
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Lunch With A Canadian Foodie
I found this old post that I never published while cleaning out my categories and archives. We spent a summer day with Valerie from A Canadian Foodie where the kids made pizza dough and then pizza on the BBQ!
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/lunch-with-a-canadian-foodie/
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Magpie’s Easter Menu
If you are in any way like my family – who have descended upon me for the Easter weekend and we couldn’t be happier- Easter means wine, food and more food. Add in a bunny that leaves chocolate for the adults to steal kids to eat on Easter morning and well….that treadmill is goin
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/magpies-easter-menu/
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Merry Christmas From the Magpie Family
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/merry-christmas-from-the-magpie-family/
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No Talking Tuesday: The Joys of Sledding
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/no-talking-tuesday-the-joys-of-sledding/
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Creole Envie, Edmonton Alberta
On November 12th, something happened, something so rare, so elusive that it almost resembles the appearance of a blue moon when you come right down to it.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/creole-envie-edmonton-alberta/
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No Talkin’ Tuesdays: First Tooth Edition
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/no-talkin-tuesdays-first-tooth-edition/
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Some Dogs Have All The Luck
I just realized while writing up this post that in the picture above you can see my two children wrestling like tiger cubs on the trampoline. My daughter literally has my son pinned to the trampoline and if I was able to look closely, she might just be biting him. Actually, odds
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/some-dogs-have-all-the-luck/
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No Talkin’ Tuesday: First Day of Grade 2 & 4
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/no-talkin-tuesday-first-day-of-grade-2-4/
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Harvest Days in Bon Accord, Alberta
A couple of weekends ago found the Magpie family out in Bon Accord Alberta. We had been invited to their Harvest Days festival, to partake in the Sturgeon County Bounty event that was – for the first time- taking place at the festival as well.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/harvest-days-in-bon-accord-alberta/
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Tutti Frutti’s At Southgate Centre
So, what does any good wife do for her fabulous husband on their 12 anniversary?
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/tutti-fruttis-at-southgate-centre/
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Murrieta’s Bar & Grill – Menu Launch
I’ve written before about visiting Murrieta’s Bar & Grill here in Edmonton, since the chef there is one of my personal favorites, for not only chefs but just people in general. So when Chef Shane Chartrand told me he was finished his new revamp of the menu at Murietta’s on Whyte
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/murrietas-bar-grill-menu-launch/
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How Mr Magpie Tries To Fix a Website
First, The Tick earns her nickname and has to sit with on Dad.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/how-mr-magpie-tries-to-fix-a-website/
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Artichoke & Spinach Pie. And a Criminal Profiler.
Hey, look, pie and a story that’s almost completely unrelated!
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/artichoke-spinach-pie-and-a-criminal-profiler/
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Murrieta’s Bar & Grill, Edmonton, Alberta
Most of my dining out experiences are completely & utterly impromptu, spur-of-the-moment panicky affairs; apparently if it ain’t last-minute, it ain’t worth it. Our visit to Murrieta’s on Whyte here in Edmonton was no exception.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/murrietas/
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Zinc Restaurant At The Alberta Art Gallery
When trying to decide where to dine for our first date anniversary on February 11th, I knew right away where I was going to book. Zinc has been top of my list for places to try in Edmonton for a long time now and with the restaurant also entering the Culinary Arts Cook Off it wa
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/zinc-restaurant-at-the-alberta-art-gallery/
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A Market Dinner by Chef Brittany Watt
** Scene opens with strangers converging on a dark street outside a familiar Edmonton market, the familiar turned eerily unsettling by the fact that no one ventures there after dark, much less knocks on a back door to be let in. After stifling a few giggles together about clandes
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/a-market-dinner-by-chef-brittany-watt/
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Happy Birthday To My Beautiful Girl
Happy 6th Birthday to my beautiful girl, my littlest love, my last baby. What a year this has been for you, full of so many firsts and accomplishments for such a little girl. Going to Grade One and being away from home all day, surprising your mama with how well you adapted, how
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/happy-birthday-to-my-beautiful-girl/
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No Talkin’ Tuesday: Baking Cookies With A Canadian Foodie
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/no-talkin-tuesday-baking-cookies-with-a-canadian-foodie/
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Happy Birthday, My Beautiful Boy
Happy 8th birthday to my first baby, the little soul responsible for making me a mother eight years ago today. I can’t believe that 8 years have passed already.
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/happy-birthday-my-beautiful-boy/
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Bad Mother Gives Away Her Children’s Halloween Candy
Every November 1st or 2nd, depending on when Halloween falls, my husband loads up all the leftover candy from Halloween – including about 70% of my kids stash- and drops it off where it’s needed. The past two years have been the Boyle Center, here in Edmonton, who are more than g
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/bad-mother-gives-away-her-childrens-halloween-candy/
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Sturgeon County Bounty Fall 2011
One Saturday morning, not so long ago, I threw the bed covers aside, breathed in the crisp fall air and declared to the family “Unpacking this new house be darned, we’re going to the Sturgeon County Bounty!”
https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/sturgeon-county-bounty-fall-2011/
