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The Best Maple Pumpkin Spice Pie Recipe!

Maple-sweetened, with roast squash (more flavour), fresh spices and real cream - this pie is a winner!!!

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Uncomplicated Dry-Brined Roast Turkey

I love this method. The turkey meat is flavourful right through the breast, and is covered with the most decadent crispy skin.

The best part, though? This really is an uncomplicated recipe – as a roast turkey should be!

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Uncomplicated Dry-Brined Roast Turkey - Simple Bites It’s a rainy, frigid day, and I am more than content to stay in, make another pot of coffee and start planning my Thanksgiving menu. October has arrived, as has harvest season here in Quebec, and the countdown is officially on for the holiday weekend. Yesterday I ordered my free-range turkey – t...

Healthy Snack Ideas for Fall >>

Nourishing, tried and true snack recipes for the lunchbox or after school to help you transition into fall.

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Easy Fall Dinner Ideas and Recipes

30 cozy and easy fall dinner ideas and recipes for the busy home cook!

Fall is when I get back into menu planning and meal prepping. These strategies are not only sanity savers, but they help me to stay mindful of budget requirements and zero waste goals.

My tried and true, easy fall dinner ideas and recipes are for the busy home cook who still wants to enjoy cozy dinners. Let’s go!

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Easy Fall Dinner Ideas and Recipes - Simple Bites Thirty easy fall dinner ideas and recipes for the time-strapped, budget-conscious home cook who still wants to enjoy cozy dinners.

20 years ago today I casually launched a food blog called Under the High Chair (swipe and see if you remember it!) 💻 📷 Social media didn’t exist yet (we hung out on e-Gullet) and I wrote with abandon, confident that no one would read my work.
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The intro read: Welcome! I’m Aimee, writer of Under the High Chair, young mama and foodie gourmande. After ten years in the professional cooking industry, I find myself cooking for my pickiest customer yet: my toddler. Since he scorns my efforts, I’ve created this blog as a necessary outlet for my creative cooking juices and to showcase what is ultimately ending up under the high chair.

“Does my one-year-old care that not too long ago, I was cooking for Montreal’s rich and famous, both in their homes as a private chef as well as at one of our city’s top tables? No, he mocks my skill, ignores my attempts to entice him, and does his best to humble me by pitching food on the floor. Since my little client is so hard to please, I’ve created this blog as an outlet for my creative cooking juices.”

Posts included ‘5 Things to Eat Before You Die’, ‘Montreal’s Best Cupcake’, an honest review of the newly opened Joe Beef, many many rants, canning tutorials, a wedding cake here and there and the ups and downs of parenting.

Only, people WERE reading, and UtHC found an audience of new mothers, home cooks, preserving enthusiasts and experimental bakers. The press and awards rolled, in including a nod from the Canadian Weblog Awards

The first viral post was 2009
“Top Ten Things to Expect when Dining with a Food Blogger”

Other huge hits include gingerbread tutorials, Roast Turkey 101 and my Canning 101 series.

20 years of holiday cookie swaps! The Montreal Gazette and other local press joined us a few times

In 2010 I turned blogging from a hobby to a business and launched Simple Bites.

The highlights over the past 20 years have always been reader related - book tour events and book signings, emails and notes, friendships made along the way.

These memories I hold dear like precious gems; they only grow more special as time passes and the digital age of AI spirals out of control.
~ A