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Welcome!
Hey everybody! This is the home base for Four Trees Kitchen. We’re a home-based bakery and cookhouse in beautiful Aylesford, Nova Scotia. I’m David, the chief cook around here. My partner, Annette, and I love good food. I do a lot of the cooking but everything we do is a team effort. Some of our…
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Slow Cooker Baked Beans
Growing up, I loved baked beans. Mum would always serve them with potato salad and oatmeal brown bread. The combination was and is one of my all time favorites. My recipe takes a couple of days to make, but most of that time is just soaking and slow cooker time. 2 cups Navy beans Rinse…
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Basic Bagels
Time for a confession… For years, I wanted to make bagels, but the first recipe I found when I Googled them said I needed to boil them in lye. I was (I think justifiably) terrified and ditched the idea. A while ago, my buddy James sent me pics of bagels he’d made at home and…
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Red River Cereal Bread
When I was a kid, mum used to serve the five of us Red River Cereal for breakfast. As a porridge, with cream and brown sugar, it rocked. As an adult, I remembered it with great fondness and I tried adding it to my bread recipe and discovered an AMAZING bread with a nutty flavour…
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Scallop Stuffed Double Baked Potatoes
Scallop Stuffed Baked Potatoes Okay, this one sounds off-the-wall and slightly loopy, but trust me – it’s simple and reasonably inexpensive if you get a bag of frozen scallops when they’re on sale. And they taste absolutely great! 4 large baking potatoes 1 pound scallops 1 medium onion 1 head garlic Dill Butter Sour Cream…
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Potato Bread
Next time you boil potatoes, don’t drain them into the sink! Save the water for great bread! The dissolved potato starch in the water gives the yeast plenty to be happy about so it rises fast. 2 cups potato water 1 tablespoon flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon yeast Pour the water into a large…
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Tomato Sauce
I can’t think of many ingredients more versatile than simple tomato sauce. It’s one of those things you always need and it’s one of the easiest things to make your own. For my own stuff at home, I do mine in a slow cooker, so that’s what this recipe will assume, but this technique works…
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Basic White Bread
Here’s a simple bead recipe that’ll make you a hero! It comes together quickly and fills the house with an aroma that’ll bring a hungry crowd to the kitchen. 2 cups warm water2 tablespoons flour1 teaspoon salt1 tablespoon yeast 4-6 cups flour1-2 tablespoons oil In a large bowl, whisk the hot water, 2 tablespoons of…
