This is the most delicious time of year! Still cool enough to bake a pie and the strawberries and rhubarb are just starting to show up at our local farmers markets. This is our favourite pie and I baked it to enjoy over the long weekend. Thought it was time to add it to my […]
Featured Foodie Company: Rogers Food
Update: Since writing this article there has been a recall of Rogers flour damn it! “The BCCDC is advising anyone who purchased a 10-kilogram bag of Rogers all-purpose flour with the lot number MFD 17 Jan 19 C — which was sold to Costco customers in B.C. beginning in January — to dispose of it.” That […]
Foodie Bucket List: How To Make Homemade Bagels
My First Attempt at Latvian Ķimeņmaizītes – Caraway Buns
Mini Devil’s Food Cupcakes with Mocha Frosting
What do you do when you have a large class of drawing students to bake for to celebrate your last class together but only have so much energy? You turn to Martha Stewart’s Cupcake cookbook and take her recipe for Devil’s Food Cupcakes, divide the recipe in half and convert it to mini cupcakes. That way […]
Anna Olson’s Chocolate-Dipped Ladyfingers & Cookbook Review
I have had a blast working through Anna Olson‘s cookbook Bake With Anna Olson. From getting the cookbook signed in person by her through the trials and tribulations of making her focaccia, bagel bites and her Indian naan bread… I have enjoyed this baking journey and will continue to work through her cookbook and learn a ton. For […]
How To Make Brioche & First Ramsay Masterclass Assignment
Recipe Review of Dine & Dish Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
My friend Wayne (hey Wayne!) messaged me about this recipe by Dine & Dish for Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins and I was intrigued! Not just because I have been meaning to make this type of muffin but because she uses the egg whites to help with leavening them. The foodie scientist in me was intrigued so […]
Classic Chocolate Tart for the Chocoholic
Anna Olson’s Easy Poppy Seed Bagel Bites
When I went to see Anna Olson at The Gourmet Warehouse where she promoted her cookbook Bake With Anna Olson, she spoke about her grandmother’s bagel bites and how popular they were in her household. It was, of course, one of the first recipes I wanted to try. I have been a little nervous to take on bagels but […]