Yes, Valentine’s Day is coming up and whether you celebrate it with your sweetie or want to stab yourself in the heart… chocolate always helps. Reg and I did not get any homemade Christmas treats this year because I was too damn sick to make any so… I am indulging lately to make up for […]
Fast Breads’ Buttermilk Sandwich Loaf
Canadian Living’s Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recently I received the cookbook Canadian Living Best Recipes Ever to review from Random House Canada. How exciting! For those readers outside of Canada, Canadian Living is an icon in the magazine publishing world here. They now have a TV show called Best Recipes Ever and this is the show’s cookbook. This is a huge honour and […]
Recipe Review: Ina Garten the Barefoot Contessa’s Old-Fashioned Apple Crisp
Thanks so much for the Thanksgiving wishes yesterday! Warmed my heart. 🙂 Last year I made Ina Garten AKA the Barefoot Contessa‘s mammoth Old-Fashioned Apple Crisp recipe for New Year’s Eve. It was a huge hit! It was seriously the best apple crisp I had ever tasted and have been wanting to share it with you ever since. […]
My Mom’s Sweet Pickles
Lorraine’s Newfoundland Blueberry Grunt Recipe
Normally I like to start off with a pretty picture but this is the closest to a pretty picture I can get when it comes to the Maritime traditional dessert, blueberry grunt. Don’t believe me? So what is blueberry grunt exactly? Dumplings cooked in a blueberry syrup. Heaven! Seriously, I think this would make a […]
Recipe Review: Paula Deen’s Mexican Cornbread
Yesterday was the day of the first harvest of summer. You know I love food traditions so I just had to participate and make traditional cornbread to celebrate. Thankfully the heat wave has lightened up a little so I decided it was safe to bake some. Who knows cornbread better than Ms. Paula Deen the queen […]
The Perfect Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Rachel Allen’s Peanut Butter and White Chocolate Blondies
According to the American Food Network Facebook Page, yesterday was National Peanut Butter Lovers Day. I am actually not a big peanut butter lover, I like it but would not include myself in this demographic… until I made Rachel Allen’s Peanut Butter Blondies! Crazy delicious, I could not stop eating these after they came out […]