… or, as it says on my mom’s little recipe card: choco chip crisps! I suddenly had a deep need to have these cookies the other night. I haven’t had them in years and years. They were a childhood fave and a big treat. Growing up with a mom who was a doctor meant we [...]
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Peanut Butter Nutella Cookies
It’s funny that most of the recipes on this blog are baking recipes. In actual fact, I’m a much better cook than I am a baker. And I’m a much more adventurous cook than I am a baker. Pastry eludes me. I have yet to make a really good muffin, despite 100s of attempts. Cupcakes [...]
Garage Sale Cookies and Meat & Bread
March in Vancouver has been suffering from an identity crisis. It doesn’t seem to know what it wants to do. One minute, gorgeous blue skies, crocuses, warm breezes, the next snow, then hurricane force winds, then rain, them some blues skies… often all in the same day! Do you take the umbrella? Do you wear [...]
The Best Carrot Cake – With Cream Cheese Frosting
I have been struggling with writing this post for over a week. It’s a recipe post – one of my better recipes if I do say so myself! Except, it’s not my recipe. The recipe is from one of the loveliest people I have ever known – a good friend and colleague who was killed [...]
Meyer Lemon Berry Squares
O. M. G. I know what you’re thinking… could she actually be posting a recipe post??? Like I said, O. M. G, I know! Crazy, wild wacky stuff. I have to tell you, I actually made these 3 weeks ago. They’re long gone. In fact, there are no cookies in this house. No baked goods [...]
