At some point during the pandemic, I started making Pinterest boards for dinner parties that I wanted to host when lockdowns finished and life returned to “normal”. To be honest, they were all various Thanksgiving themed boards, based around me FINALLY roasting a turkey for the first time in my life. I decided this was......
After a month of indulgence, I really tried to rein it in this month and cook a lot more at home. There were still a couple of foodie adventures though: My imaginary best friend Alison Roman was in town on her extended book tour, and I went to see her (again) with a couple of......
I’ve spent more time then I care to admit on TikTok this year, and as someone who’s been around since the dawn of food blogs, it’s kind of interesting to me how TikTokers demo and share recipes. There’s no space or time to give lengthy explanations of ingredients or explain a method, which is fine......
This was a month of full of fun and absolute indulgence in all forms! That’s what happens when Thanksgiving, your birthday and Halloween all fall in the same month: I got dragged at work last month when I was describing how KitKat is my hands-down, top-tier, go-to chocolate bar, and was called BASIC by numerous......
None of my usual birthday cake food groups were calling my name when I started thinking about what kind of treat I wanted to make myself this year. (For reference they are: Cookie Dough, Funfetti, S’mores and Chocolate/Peanut Butter.) I started flipping through a few cookbooks for inspo when I realized I STILL hadn’t made......
As stated numerous times here, I’m just not a fan of (most) fruit desserts – I don’t like tart/creamy things (i.e. Lemon Meringue Pie, Key Lime Pie) and I don’t like HOT FRUIT! But on Thanksgiving, you just have to give the people what they want, and the people want apple pie. This recipe popped......
I slowly continued to recover from COVID this month and got my appetite back in time for lots of tasty treats, including the last trip to my favourite bakery in the GTA: I met up with my friends for a lovely Labour Day weekend night out that began and ended at Seoulshakers for cocktails, with......
For reasons that can’t be explained, every time I’ve gone to Trader Joe’s/Target since the borders re-opened in 2022, I’ve added MULTIPLE bags of freeze-dried fruit to my cart. I have no idea why I keep doing this and it needs to stop. I used one bag last summer to make these Neapolitan Cookies, and......
This was a bit of a weird August for me; I wasn’t living at home for the whole month, until I was, in a very PTSD way. Allow me to explain: I was at Lydia’s for the first week of August doing my annual housesitting/catsitting duties, where of course I ordered from her (and now......
Does this here ol’ blog really need another S’mores recipe? Over the years I think I’ve made every format of S’mores treat on the internet: cupcakes, cookies, squares, pudding, pie and probably more. Alas, I keep seeing these squares on Pinch of Yum and wanted to make them for Kristine’s and my pool day on......