The sneaky thing about having a food blog is that you can make yourself look like a superstar by only posting your successes in the kitchen. Something turns out gross? Sticks to the pan? Fugly as hell? You simply don’t put it on the site (with the exception of these). So you have no idea......
Growing up, I never really realized that granola bars were supposed to be healthy. The ones I usually had in my lunch bag were those old ones that I think were called “Dips”, and let’s be honest, were basically a chocolate bar. I remember my favourite one had caramel inside and was covered in chocolate. (Oh......
When we last left off, I was on the cusp of blondie greatness, but had to stop baking as the Throwdown was quickly approaching. Erin arrived with her submission – Milk Chocolate Nougat Blondies – and I admitted right away they were way cuter than any of my batches. Her original recipe called for a drizzle of......
Okay, this is going to be a long one, so you just have to stick with me here. I promise the end result is the quickest, easiest, one-bowl treat yet to appear on Planet Byn, so you have to just power through. Last week, my former co-worker and friend Erin was e-mailing me about some......
So it was already a good foodie week for me a couple of weeks ago after meeting Matt and Renato from Baked at Yorkdale. The next day I found out Chuck Hughes would be at Walmart in Mississauga on Saturday afternoon. Kind of random, but obviously a must attend for me. When my co-workers and......
Last week the boys from Baked came to Toronto and did a brownie demo and book signing at the Williams-Sonoma in Yorkdale. I found out about the event on Twitter after Matt asked for Toronto bakery recommendations (I suggested Wanda’s Pie in the Sky in Kensington), and I knew a foodie fangirl such as myself......
Caramel makes me nervous because of a few bad experiences in my baking past, where things that were supposed to be gooey and chewy ended up with the consistency of something you could break a tooth on. Armed with a candy thermometer and healthy dose of patience, I made these last weekend as a Halloween......
Last weekend I had a little Pumpkin Carving Party at my place, and I had lots of baking ideas after seeing Halloween Treats on all my favourite blogs. But first we have to address the HP factor of this blog post. Is there really enough room here to express my love for Harry Potter? You likely......
I’ve wanted to make Boeuf Bourguignon ever since I saw Julie & Julia with my Mom back in the summer of 2009. Clearly I wasn’t the only person who had this idea, because when I went to put Mastering the Art of French Cooking on hold at my library, there were about a hundred people......
Most of the baking I do is with my friends or family in mind. I rarely bake things just for me, because dangerous things happen, whereby I usually eat way too many treats. So I always have to bake when people are coming over, or I can bring leftovers to work. My birthday is the......