I cook for awards shows like most people cook for major sporting events. I like to have lots of food to sustain me through 3+ hours of awkward banter between presenters, teary acceptance speeches, and judging January Jones’ fashion choices. For the Emmys this year, Kristine came over (Nicole joined us for dessert, but that......
Peaches bring us to the end of another summer of amazing Ontario fruit. This summer I baked with rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries and blueberries (some muffins that I didn’t blog about), which brings us to peaches. A couple weeks ago Alexis, Nick and I headed over to the Winona Peach Festival, which is in the tiny town of......
All signs point to Fall. My nephew started Senior Kindegarten yesterday, the Pumpkin Spice Latte is back at Starbucks, and TIFF starts this week. I am actually super excited for Fall this year, and to get back into cooking dinners. I hate turning on the oven/standing over the stove when it’s 45 out with the......
You should know by now that Danielle is my West CoastEast Coast BFF who introduced me to food blogs. A year ago, she left her KitchenAid Mixer behind in Calgary and moved to St. John’s for Nursing School, which doesn’t leave too much time for baking. However, she just got back from a visit back home,......
My little niece Charlotte turned 3 last week, and all summer I’ve been asking her what kind of cake she wants. The answer has included the following: Cookie Monster, Grover, Clifford, and “big greeney-blue cake”. I researched her first three choices at Bulk Barn, checking out the cake pans for rent after the Elmo success......
Updated with a new picture January 13, 2021 2010 will probably go down as the summer of the Pretzel M&M. I am absolutely obsessed with them. A tiny, crunchy, salty sphere of pretzel covered in chocolate and a candy shell. Amazing. I first saw an ad for them in a magazine, but thought they would take a......
It’s a raspberry round-up y’all! I seem to have really missed the window for raspberries this summer – these seasonal fruits give me a little bit of stress, to be honest. When I went to the farmer’s market about a month ago, they were everywhere, but last week, not a raspberry in sight. I really......
Christmas in July! I read that somewhere this morning, and I realized I only had two days left to make this post relevant. It’s no secret that I’m obsessed with Smitten Kitchen, and Nicole is hooked too. We decided to make ourselves a Christmas dinner last December, with everything from SK, and our only other rule was......
It was Nicole’s 30th birthday a couple weeks ago, and her boyfriend threw her a surprise party at a lawn bowling club. Since I don’t do sports, and I also don’t own any white articles of clothing (the lawn bowling attire of choice), I didn’t know how this whole thing was going to work out......
Last summer when Lydia was pregnant with Ethan, I liked to grill her about her cravings to try to find new baking projects. She’s always loved desserts based around bananas – she introduced me to bananas foster many years ago – and one of the first things she asked for was Banana Cream Pie. I made......