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…
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…
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…
Break out the baguettes, berets, and striped bateau-necks! It’s 2018! Can you believe it’s already less than a month to Valentine’s Day? Still, is it just me, or have the grocery stores really gotten ahead of themselves? Though, maybe they have a point. After all, this year, Valentine’s Day doubles as the first day of…
Doesn’t this Galette des Rois look good? It tastes fab, too! But, was it worth the sweat? Screw all this chatter, skip to the Recipe 2017 brought its fair share of fails in the kitchen. I’m an amateur home cook, not a professional chef or baker. That doesn’t mean I don’t stand behind what I…
After creating 5 original Bûche de Noël recipes over the past six years, I thought that perhaps I wouldn’t want to re-invent the wheel this Christmas. After all, my Lemon Bûche de Noël has been calling! But, when I picked up a bottle of malted milk powder to use for our Celine-inspired Dusty Miller Sundaes,…
