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. […]
Celebrate National Barbecue Day!
Recently the charity Meal Exchange wrote and informed me that Saturday August 7th is National Barbecue Day! Canadians are invited to register their own backyard barbecue parties to bring their friends and neighbors together for a good cause and potentially win the trip of a lifetime with Westjet! In honour of National Barbecue Day I made this grilled veggie salad. Unfortunately […]
Recipe: Breadmaker Cinnamon Buns
The dark and drearies have returned to Nova Scotia so baking was no longer out of the question. Even though the humidity is still high, I braved to bake my favourite treat in the whole world for two different birthday celebrations. I altered the original recipe which you can find here to turn it into […]
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The Ridler Family Traditional Christmas Sugar Cookies
Photo taken with the last of the winter daylight sneaking in through our living room window My family has been making these Christmas sugar cookies since I was old enough to say, I want Christmas cookies so let’s bake some darn it! Store-bought cookies never taste truly Christmasy to me and I wanted Christmas cookies […]
Merry Christmas Meringues
People are frightened of meringues. Not of eating them of course, but of making them. In some ways I can see why, they are a little tricky and require more time than your average cookie but they are worth following some simple baking rules. The payoff is extraordinary. I once brought a big container of […]
