food, photography and my creative life
Rhubarb has arrived. For a short time only! It’s been ridiculously early this year, as has everything else. But I don’t mind because I’m tired of eating mealy apples and bananas. I am ready for fresh produce to start rolling in and a little extra variety in my refrigerator. Because I hate mealy apples. If an apple isn’t crisp and doesn’t have that satisfying juicy
I have been quiet in this space lately. But not quiet overall. When I haven’t been doing client work, I’ve been busy doing a lot of writing. Far more than I usually do. I spent most of January working on a 31 Day Clean Up Your Blog series over at Food Bloggers of Canada along with my charming chum and FBC partner in crime, Ethan
It has, frankly, been too damn hot and sunny and un-Vancouver like to have my oven on this summer. We went the entire month of July without a drop of rain – that’s the first time on record that’s happened. That’s why this blog has been so recipe free lately. I’m not turning on the oven just for a blog post and I spend my
If you had to choose, between lemon or chocolate, what would your choice be? Throw some rhubarb into the mix and would it make your decision any easier? Think about it… tart lemon with pockets of rhubarb, toasted coconut and sweet blueberries topped with a brown sugar, coconut, lemon zest streusel… or … moist zingy rhubarb offset with a cocoa-y muffin and a few chocolate
We are in the midst of one of the most beautiful Indian summers that I can remember. The days are still hot and dry but the leaves are starting to turn and the evenings have gotten downright cold. It’s the time of year that Vancouver produces the most incredible sunsets – there’s this fall haze that hangs over everything in the evenings turning the sky
Sometimes, you set out to do something and you have all these wonderful plans. Like how I woke up one day and really had a craving for carrot raisin muffins. With maybe a little bit of pineapple in them. It just seemed like a good idea. You know, at the time. So I did some googling and settled upon the recipe on the Dole Pineapple
I feel like I’m mourning the end of summer when it didn’t even really arrive. While it has just started to be consistently sunny outside and the temperatures have managed to be over 20 degrees C during the daytime, I’ve noticed that the evening light has that watery quality that comes with the end of summer. It’s crisp and cool out. We haven’t had one
I have a lot of rhubarb. I just cut down both of my two plants and I have to use it up or freeze it. I used to only have one rhubarb plant but somehow in the last two years it’s multiplied… I knew I wanted to make rhubarb orange muffins but I couldn’t find my recipe so I had to hit the web. We’re
There is nothing like fresh, warm muffins with butter oozing into the cracks as it melts. They’re perfect for a weekend breakfast: quick, simple and filling, either on their own with a big mug of tea or as part of a hearty breakfast with all the fixings! Muffins made at home can be so much healthier than anything you buy at the local coffee shop
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
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