food, photography and my creative life
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
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 and icing aren’t even in my repertoire and I hate
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 boots? The coat with the hood? Why is there a
Today. Arggh. Mmm hmmm. Today was “Malfunction Monday”. Nothing went right. I wasted an entire morning sitting in traffic in completely miserable weather and never made my destination, none of the things I was waiting on arrived, my laptop is on the fritz, I am trying very hard to do all the things my dentist told me to do so I don’t have to fork
This is an outtake from shooting cookies today. Cranberry Chocolate Chunk Cookies actually. I’ll post the rest of the photos and the recipe next week but I’m still working on shooting the actual cookies (I ran out of light after doing the prep shots and actually baking them). They’re good. But, really, how hard must one fail to make lousy cookies? I mean, that takes
First things first! Take a look around… we got a new look to start the New Year! A few days early but, I couldn’t resist :). A little bit embarrassing to be a web designer using the default WordPress template for so long! It’s still not an original WP theme. I used Woo Themes Canvas theme, which is basically a blank design slate with all
Jingle Bars are a tasty holiday treat loaded with caramel, almonds white chocolate and cranberries on a shortbread crust!
I have no idea where this came from but out of the blue last weekend I had a craving for biscotti with my tea. I haven’t made biscotti in years. I haven’t eaten biscotti in years! I was originally thinking a chocolate biscotti but somehow, that morphed into lime biscotti, which then turned into lime cranberry… and then by the time I was done it
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