Today is the first day of Advent…well, technically, Sunday is the first day of Advent, so let’s just call today ADVENT JUNIOR! As you can see from my Advent Calendar for 2018, it’s once again time to trim the tree. Time for yet another set of Favourite Photo Ornaments. What are these? They’re small prints of our…
Homemade caramels make a fabulous holiday treat and an excellent gift at any time of the year! I’ve been using this Soft Salted Caramels recipe for years! Enjoy! Print Recipe Soft Salted Caramels Ingredients1 c heavy cream5 tbs unsalted butter cubed1.5 tsp+* fleur de sel, Maldon flake, or pink Himalayan salt 1.5 c white sugar.25…
If anyone tells you can’t mess with perfection and expect perfection in return, bake them this cake! This Strawberry Rhubarb Snacking Cake recipe was born of necessity and a decades-long obsession with candied ginger. I came home from the Farmer’s Market, as I discovered, without enough rhubarb to make Deb Perlman’s Smitten Kitchen Rhubarb Snacking…
Last fall, I mentioned that we don’t really tend to replace our furniture until it’s “way broke.” Well, after almost twenty years of service, our 5’7″ apartment-sized Ikea sofa has ripped across a central seam for the second time. And, its coils are groaning. I think the old bird is trying to tell us something,…
I don’t store my cookbooks in the kitchen. We don’t have the counter or cabinet space to store them together. And, I like to keep like with like. So, the cookbooks have long been housed in a sideboard. This all worked well when the shelf was in the dining room. But, to make room for the…
My jewelry preferences veer towards dangly gold-tone earrings and the occasional voluminous right hand ring. And, I found plenty of gorgeous pieces to suit at the Spring One of a Kind Show and Sale, on now until April 1, 2018, at the Enercare Centre at Exhibition Place in Toronto. Here are my golden crushes from…
I have two favourite all-chocolate brownie recipes, one iced (which belongs to my mother-in-law), and one chewy. This is the chewy version. It’s the only thing you’ll ever need to entice a Valentine, wow a potluck, or cheer up a teary-eyed child. Or, store some in a tin beside the bed….This recipe is my streamlined…
It’s Fat Tuesday! And I’ve got to make something fabulous to make for the kids before Lent hits and we start putting kale in everything. I posted this tried and true King Cake Style Cinnamon Roll Ring on my previous site several years ago. So, it’s about darn time it got transported. Of course, this Cinnamon…
In 2018, I’m donating my body to science. Just kidding. I already ticked that box when I renewed my Driver’s License. But, in addition to improving my French, my other big 2018 Obsession is to take better care of my skin. Step one will be ten steps, or, really, twenty (thousand?) steps a day…. Between…
