Toasted Pecan + Mandarin Orange Salad

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Things have been pretty slow over here on The Fig Tree over the past few weeks. My apologies! However, the semi-hiatus has been for a good reason! I’m in the middle of making some big changes to the blog. My focus has been more on blog design these days rather than actual recipe development. Thankfully, I should finally debut the new + improved Fig Tree and resume a regular posting schedule by the end of January. So excited for the changes to go live!  In the meantime, here is one of my favourite salad recipes. It’s a salad that my…

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Orange Snowball Cookies || Guest Post

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It may be Sunday and the dreaded Monday is nearing quickly. *pouts* But in an effort to make Monday a bit more tolerable, I present to you a fantastic guest post from my cousin Liz. These cookies will undoubtedly sweeten up the beginning of your work week. Liz has a wonderful blog called Edge + Vertex. She writes about all sorts of great stuff including her daily life, her favourite fashion finds, crafts….and baking! :) She’s utterly adorable and you cannot help but fall in love with her through her blog. She’s seriously cool. I am so very happy my…

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Mexican Mac + Cheese

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Hello and happy new year! Hope you all had a wonderful time ringing in 2013. We had a nice quiet night with some friends on New Years Eve. New Year’s Day, we met some friends for lunch to celebrate the new year. It was great catching up with some close friends from out-of-town. And, in the evening, my sister had us over for a fantastic meal. My dad insisted we have an ice cream sundae party to end dinner last night – which I definitely agreed to. We had plain vanilla ice cream with fresh fruit, nuts, and yummy chocolate…

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