I baked up a storm this month for another charity bake sale, and actually left my home for a quick trip to Ottawa to spend time with my friend Katy and her family. Here’s more on both, plus what I was cooking throughout the month: Bakers Against Racism activated for an emergency bake sale this......
First Dessert Person entry for 2022! Now, everybody knows citrus desserts aren’t my favourite, particularly anything that’s tart and creamy at the same time. But my brother Joel feels the exact opposite, and it was his birthday this past weekend, so I knew right away that I’d make this for him. This recipe is pretty......
Shawarma is one of the primary joys in my life and I was excited at the prospect of replicating it at home when I saw this recipe on the (oddly named) Plays Well With Butter blog. Obviously I knew I’d never be able to match the happiness of watching chicken shawarma get sliced off a......
One of the (very) few good things to come out of all the quarantines/lockdowns we’ve had since 2020 is that I finally learned how to cook salmon. Pre-pandemic, I occasionally made tilapia or sole, but never salmon, and I’ve always thought I should be eating more of it for those valuable omega-3s. With cooking so......
It was another month of hibernation over here, so once again, there’s nothing really noteworthy to record. I did order a bubble tea kit from Pluck (pictured above), and while it was a fun project, cooking the tapioca pearls is an annoyingly lengthy process (boil, steep, strain, rinse, store in simple syrup). My friend Jess......
When I’m craving a chocolate chip cookie (OFTEN), I mentally run through the recipes I’ve tried and documented on this here baking blog. So many of them require browning the butter, aging the dough, or sourcing a special ingredient. Most of the time, that leads to exceptional results that are worth the wait. But sometimes,......
There are some celebrity chefs, foodie personalities and bloggers that I love, and I rush to cook or bake whatever I see them make – people like The Barefoot Contessa, Claire Saffitz and of course Smitten Kitchen. But weirdly, there’s another subset of chefs that I love even though I NEVER make any of their......
As mentioned in my January recap, I have been cooking A LOT at home so far this year. I’m trying to remember to take pictures this month though so I can document my faves here. One of my co-workers recommended this recipe back in the times when we used to chat about such things over......
I only left my home once per week in January to go grocery shopping, so there’s nothing that exciting to report this month. And while I didn’t bake anything (except these outstanding Cinnamon Rolls), I cooked every single meal for myself because I thought I could use a break from take-out (and didn’t take pictures......
A full year ago, I woke up with a Cinnamon Roll craving, rolled out of bed and made the only other traditional* Cinnamon Roll recipe on this blog. It’s a Pioneer Woman classic that I hadn’t remade in the ten years since I posted about it**, and I was underwhelmed. This is mostly due my......