We all have certain foods that are reminiscent of our childhood and this Chocolate Zucchini Bundt Cake tops the list for me.
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Blueberry Coconut Milk Rice Pudding
This easy rice pudding recipe only takes a few minutes to put together and is so simple – especially if you have a rice cooker! Childhood desserts… what’s your favourite? I don’t know if I can pick one but, the one I have been craving recently is my mom’s rice pudding recipe. Rice pudding has been on my brain since visiting Vij’s Rangoli a few weeks
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Blueberry Cardamom Pie
In my backyard, I have four blueberry bushes. Three of them produce a small handful of berries every year. Just enough to toss in some yogurt or on my morning granola. Or just eat while I’m picking. The fourth bush, is a power producer. It produces enough berries most years to make a few smoothies or a couple of batches of blueberry muffins. This year,
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Apple Raisin Custard Tarts
It’s February already. Not even February 1st. But February 7th. We are already a quarter of the way through February. This freaks me out a little because it feels like, once again, the year is in danger of slipping by too quickly! So I thought it would be a good idea to check in with my word for 2016: minimize. I’ve slowly started going through my
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Pear Cranberry Toffee Oatmeal Cookies
Adding pears to cookies is easy when you use dried fruit – like in these Pear and Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies! Happiest of new years to all of you, my readers! I hope 2015 brings you lots of great things including a little bit of inspiration to create something new every day – even if it’s just something tiny. A little flower doodled in the corner
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Strawberry Chocolate Syrup
Strawberry chocolate syrup with a hint of fresh mint and cardamom is an easy to make recipe but with a flavour complexity that makes it an elegant addition to summer desserts and drinks! There are times, it would seem, where you really wish something had worked out differently. And it gnaws at you, in the back of your brain, even if you tell yourself it’s
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Rhubarb Apple Tart with Coconut and Chocolate
As quickly as it comes, rhubarb season leaves and so, this is my second but also my last rhubarb post of the year. Last week’s rhubarb apple crisp was so highly rated in this household that I decided to work with the rhubarb apple combo again for this tart. The tart itself was inspired by a rhubarb white chocolate almond tart I saw in Edible
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Rhubarb Maple Apple Crisp
I forgot about my rhubarb patch this spring. Well, not “forgot” exactly. Just, sort of… well I would remember for a fraction of a second and think I should go check on it and then get distracted until a day or two later and then… well… rinse, lather and repeat. It sits at the very back of the garden tucked amongst raspberry canes that are
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Chai Spiced Buttered Apples with Brown Sugar, and Raisins
A few week’s ago, Ethan called me up and said he wanted to go apple picking and did I want to come? Well of course I did but, apple picking is something I associate with the Okanagan – not the greater Vancouver area – could we even find somewhere that we could pick apples ourselves without stealing them off the odd neighbourhood tree? Because, you
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Rustic Peach and Cherry Honey Tart
I am back with more Okanagan bounty. I’m afraid to say I don’t think this will be the last post about my Okanagan goodies but seriously, when they’re THIS GOOD, who cares, right? I love making rustic tarts with puff pastry. First of all, they’re super easy (if you totally cheat like me and buy the puff pastry) and second of all, they’re so easy
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