Quick easy and tasty cheddar zucchini tots, aka baked zucchini fritters! Potato ‘tots’ are a side dish where shredded potatoes are formed into small cylinders and deep fried until crispy and this is a zucchini inspired version. Instead of using shredded potatoes this recipe starts out with shredded zucchini that’s combined with egg and bread...

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All of the flavours of Mexican street corn (elote) in crispy, golden brown, bite sized fritters! Fresh local corn is in season and I could not resist starting with a corn fritter recipe! Vegetable fritters are basically a vegetable, in this case corn, mixed with a simple batter hold everything together that is fried in...

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Tender potatoes that are smashed and roasted until golden brown and crispy on top and bottom seasoned with olive oil, butter, oregano salt and pepper in addition to a hit of lemon juice! I was looking for some Spring inspired side dishes for my Easter dinner and these crispy Greek lemon smashed potatoes were sounding...

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Quinoa cakes served topped with roasted red pepper and toasted walnut pesto, goat cheese and a poached egg. I have been a huge fan of quinoa ever since I first came across it and I am always looking for new ways to enjoy it. I recently came across the idea of quinoa cakes on Annie’s...

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Fresh Spring asparagus fritters with feta and dill. Fritters are definitely one of my favourite foods! There is just something irresistible about a savoury vegetable cake that is fried until golden brown and crispy! One of the things that I like so much about them is that you can make them with all sorts of...

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Sweet squash with smoky hot chipotles in adobo fried up until golden brown and crispy. When I made the chicken mole earlier on in the week, I served it on a bed of refried beans and these chipotle squash fritters. I had some squash left over in the fridge that I wanted to use and...

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The other day I came across my stash of roasted red peppers in the freezer again and since then I could not get them off of my mind; I just had to pull some of them out and do something with them! When red peppers are roasted they become nice and sweet and one of...

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While I was at the farmers market on the weekend I noticed that a few less farmers had corn and there were still a few things that I wanted to do with corn so I picked some up right away. The other week I made some Thai style corn fritters that I really enjoyed and...

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One of my favorite ‘go to’ ways to turn a vegetable into a quick and easy light meal is fritters or vegetable pancakes. I have experimented with fritters using many different vegetables with many different flavours including both sweet and savoury and it was finally time to try using one of my favourite flavour combinations,...

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While I was enjoying my pumpkin and feta fritters , thoughts of making a pumpkin pie with grated pumpkin were dancing through my head. I realized that all of the fritters that I had made recently were savoury fritters; Why not try a sweet fritter? Why not a sweet pumpkin pie like fritter? I immediatly...

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