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Chocolate Stout Cupcakes with Mocha Frosting

Chocolate Stout Cupcakes with Mocha Frosting

Cupcakes, chocolate and beer This Father’s Day why not whip up a batch of Chocolate Stout Cupcakes with Mocha Frosting for Dad.  Katie has you covered with her award winning recipe below. My Be Well Story: Katie Brunke, OHEA cupcake contest first runner up Katie Brunke is a talented baker and she has two winning recipes [...]

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Cassava Cake with Shredded Coconut

Cassava Cake with Shredded Coconut

My Be Well Story: Amirah Mansilla, 2nd place winner in the canola bake-off Amirah Mansilla is a Red River College student in the baking program. This winter, she entered and placed second in the Manitoba Canola Growers Canola Bake-Off at Red River College, an optional competition for the baking program students. Like the first place [...]

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Lemon Cupcake with Cheescake Frosting

Lemon Cupcake with Cheescake Frosting

My Be Well Story: Katrine Gahol, OHEA Cupcake Contest Winner Following the success of last year’s cookie contest at the Ontario Home Economics Association (OHEA) conference, the Manitoba Canola Growers hosted a cupcake contest for OHEA’s annual conference this past March. The contest was blind judged by Pay Chen, former Winnipeg TV host who now [...]

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Pineapple Carrot Chiffon Cake

Pineapple Carrot Chiffon Cake

Tradition a theme in RRC Canola Bake-Off Pineapple and carrots are not the usual flavour combinations for a cake, but Red River College baking student Jordain Houdayer worked her magic with the two flavours. Jordain’s delicious Pineapple and Carrot Chiffon Cake came in first place in the Manitoba Canola Growers Canola Bake-Off at Red River College. The [...]

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My Be Well Story – And the winners are…

My Be Well Story – And the winners are…

Contest Winners to Inspire Community The Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) announced the two winners of My Be Well Story contest that launched earlier this year. The contest was open nation–wide with one winner chosen from Manitoba and one from the national entrants. Curtis McRae, a farmer from St. Andrews was selected as the Manitoba [...]

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Pan-seared cod on a bed of wild rice & mushroom pilaf

Pan-seared cod on a bed of wild rice & mushroom pilaf

The following is a re-cap of the Manitoba Canola Growers Black Box Competition that took place in Brandon at Assiniboine Community College and was written by guest blogger Shel.  All photos included are also courtesy of Shel too. Congrats to all who participated! Cod and Canola: Manitoba Canola Growers’ Black Box Competition 2013 by: Shel Zolkewich Pesila [...]

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Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sharing inspiration through food There is no doubt that cooking is Maya Moscovich’s passion. She is skilled at expressing herself through creativity and cooking is just one of those ways. Maya started cooking at 11 years old. “I had a cookbook for kid’s,” she recalls fondly. Maya’s entry in the My Cookies are the Best contest [...]

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Gluten–Free Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

Gluten–Free Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

Grandma’s Cookies are always best Grandmothers and childhood memories go hand-in-hand. Often it’s the source of inspiration for recipes and that was exactly the case for Jeanine Friesen’s Gluten–Free Sour Cream Sugar Cookies. Her husband’s grandmother used to make him sugar cookies topped with pink icing. “It had to be pink icing,” Jeanine stresses. So when [...]

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What’s in a story?

What’s in a story?

The following post is brought to us by guest blogger Simon Burgess, Creative Director at Coelement Inc. There’s great power in a story. A good story not only entertains us, it has the power to inspire, influence and even shape our outlook on life.  In today’s connected world, stories are being shared more than ever, and [...]

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Tell Us Your Be Well Story Here!

Tell Us Your Be Well Story Here!

Who will be the next Be Well Story?!? Be Well Stories are about people who live with passion! We are sharing Getty’s, Mary Jane’s and Doug’s stories because we believe that living a passionate life can inspire others to do the same and that this will help make the world a better place. Do you [...]

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