I’m really excited that some of my friends are starting to return to the office. I feel the potential for lunches and after-work drinks in the air, and I couldn’t be happier! My friend Erin is back to work every Friday, so we met up a couple weeks ago for coffee and promptly resumed our......
I’m obsessed with these energy bites – they are PERFECT. I’ve tried so many other recipes over the years (and have been listing the ones I’ve made this year in my monthly recaps), but this is by far my favourite. It uses ingredients I pretty much always have at home (maybe not the mini chocolate......
Spring means renewal and I felt that deep in my core this month. Life is starting to feel rich and fun again, and April was full of family and friends: I was so excited for Easter this month! We still didn’t have our full family around the table, but we’re almost there! My Mom made......
While I’ve been going back to the office regularly since the beginning of March, last week was the official start of our ‘Phase 1 Return to Office’ plan. Not being able to bake and share treats with my co-workers has been such a huge bummer over the past two years, so I had a lot......
In general, I’m always trying to spend less time staring at my phone, but Instagram has historically been my downfall. I’m really working on it though, and in January, went on a strict IG detox for the entire month and didn’t even cheat! This seemed to break a lot of bad habits I had, and......
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......