When I was a kid and then a teenager, and then a university student, and then a homesick Canadian living in London and then a person who had a real job with actual lunch breaks, I read voraciously. In my early years and my teens I would hole up in my bedroom, curled up on [...]
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Vacation Time and Christmas Recipes!
I am taking a holiday. This is a big statement. Well, maybe not for a lot of people but it is for this chickybird. I’ve been freelancing full time for three years now – a decision I don’t ever regret making. Except for one thing… no vacation. Every year I say I will pack up [...]
Cocoa Candy Chocolate Chipper Cookies
Okie dokie. The weather, is lousy. I’m bored of dark moody photos when it’s dark and moody enough outside. It’s not Thanksgiving in Canada so I’m not much fussed about pumpkin, turkey, cranberry or mashed potato recipes (been there, done that – sorry folks). I’m not ready to do Christmas baking soooo… Let’s make cookies! [...]
Currant Cookies & Thanksgiving
This weekend is my absolute favourite holiday – Canadian Thanksgiving. It’s about giving thanks for the harvest, which is truly in it’s prime in October. I love it because it is the one holiday of the year in this country that isn’t wrapped up in commercialism. Oh it’s there alright, but it’s minimal compared to [...]
Chocolate Rhubarb Cookies
My love for rhubarb is no secret. And neither is my love for chocolate. Tangy and tart mixed with sweet and chocolatey… could it be a match made in heaven? Possibly? I say yes. One of the perks of my little gig in Ottawa was coming home with some freebies… freebies in the form of [...]
Chocolate Chip, Toffee and Potato Chip Cookies
… 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 [...]
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 [...]
Chocolate Nutella Thumbprint Cookies and my Grandma
Last week my Grandma Eva passed away. She was 99 – 3 months short of her 100th birthday and my last living grandparent. I hadn’t seen her in a few years – she doesn’t live nearby and the last few years she was no longer able to reply to letters or cards or talk on [...]
Christmas Biscotti
A tripod. I’ve decided that I have to just break down and photograph with a tripod until daylight savings comes back. Or, at least until we get through January. Right now, I envy people who live in cold but sunny places during the winter instead of a warm(er), damp, dark, rainy places. At least then [...]
