food, photography and my creative life
Most people who muck about in a kitchen on a semi-regular basis have a “thing” that they’re good at making – that one item that everyone associates with them. I have two: lasagna and… raspberry coconut cheesecake bars. I have friends whose husbands ask them every Christmas if I’m bringing these bars over any time soon. For some reason, I only make them at Christmas
We had our first snowfall here on Thursday/Friday and that can only mean one thing: Christmas Baking! I know a lot of my American counterparts are still working on Thanksgiving menus, but us Canadians are way past that! Bring on the chocolate and candy canes! Oh my goodness… I’m all about the exclamation points today! Ok, first things first… Eyes Bigger Than My Stomach is
You know those giant ginger cookies that Starbucks sells? The size of your hand and sprinkled with sugar? Yeah those ones. I’m addicted. I have a very very weak spot in my already cookie weakened spine for any kind of ginger cookie. I’ve also had to seriously cut back on my Starbucks addiction lately and I miss those cookies! So I decided to source out
One of my favourite things about fall is pears. But they have to be exactly right. Not too hard, not too soft – somewhere in the middle. Red ones are my favourite just because of the colour – they make me think of autumn leaves. I mentioned the other day that I splurged on a new cookbook. For me, cookbooks are as much about the
Oh yes… not just pumpkin bundt cake… pumpkin bundt cake with orange glaze! I’m off to Thanksgiving dinner at my mom’s tonight (that would be Canadian Thanksgiving. I’m not exceptionally organized or early, I’m just Canadian). Seeing as she’s already making my favourite sour cream apple pie, which I should make and post one day, I offered to bring something pumpkin-y for dessert that was
Mmmm… cookies! I’ve been wanting oatmeal raisin cookies for weeks. So I finally bit the bullet and made some. Ya see, the problem with cookies is, it’s too easy to eat them. And I’m weak. While I had cookie ingredients out (cuz let’s face it, the ingredients don’t change much from cookie to cookie) I figured I’d make a batch of chocolate chip cookies as
It’s been a busy week so I’m running behind here but it’s Sunday evening, I have some time, I’m listening to The Trews acoustic album, Friends and Total Strangers (which I highly recommend), the puppy is lying on my feet, and, I hope this post will make up for it. It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for anything that’s a big, bright, block of
Sometimes, it rains and rains and rains so hard, you need to make cookies. It’s just the way of life. We had 50mm of rain in one day yesterday and I needed an antidote to the weather. I also promised my dad, who’s a bit under the weather, that I’d bring him some cookies today. It was worth the effort – his whole face brightened
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