2011 October | Guilty Kitchen

Whole Wheat Machine Bread

After my last post, it occurred to me there were other things I do during my days that I didn’t mention. Did I mention I make all our own bread? Yeah, I somehow manage to bake bread from scratch one or two times a week. But you know how I can manage such a feat while also juggling two Satan spawn children, blogging, recipe creation, blah blah blah?

A bread machine!

I had never used one until about four months ago, when my Mother-in-Law so generously gave me her old Black & Decker. This beauty has seen it’s fair share of dough, yet still goes strong. It also makes some fantastic bread.

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Curried Pumpkin Stew

Have you ever seen someone out on the streets in your neighbourhood and wondered what their lives were like? Maybe you’ve seen them a few times before, each additional time you see them you feel like you are getting to know them. But you don’t know them, you are merely observing them in public. Sometimes this can be a very different beast then what people are like at home. People put on their good faces for public scrutiny, I know I do.

If it were up to me, I would never put makeup on again. Ever. Doing my hair every day is, to put it bluntly, a ridiculously intricate and complicated endeavour. Having long, curly, thick hair is a curse…a gorgeous one.

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Canadian Tire Kitchen Crew Mission #3: Double Chocolate Chili Brownie Cookies

Seeing as the crisp fall weather has definitely made it’s way into our neck of the woods, it’s been a bit of a maelstrom of baking around here. There’s just something about cooler weather that makes me just want to wrap myself in layers of soft clothing, crank up the oven and just continuously bake every day. I don’t seem to have any argument from the peanut gallery, that’s for sure. So when I heard what my next mission would be in the Canadian Tire Kitchen Crew series (part III!), my mind started racing with the possibilities. Seriously, I now have a whole notepad sheet filled with ideas of crazy baking concoctions with “ethnic” flairs added. Here’s the deets:

“Baking’s sort of your thing, eh? This week your mission is to step out of your culinary comfort zone and bake treats inspired by other cultures! That means using at least one ethnic ingredient in your dish! Stem ginger, chili powder, you name it – the choice is yours! So what are you waiting for? Get baking!”

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Kwagala Project – Beans and Posho

Today I am sharing a post by someone I have never met but wish that I could stand beside. Kelsey, director of Kwagala Project out of Uganda, contacted me a few weeks ago asking if I could help spread the word about her work. What else could I say but yes? The people of Africa, so long in suffering at the hands of their own people and us as well, deserve all the help they can get. If I, a single person with only my website to offer, can help this project, than I will do anything in my power to do so.

Food brings us together in so many ways, but sharing the diverse ethnic foods of other countries is one of my biggest passions. I love to see what the rest of the world eats and I want to try all of it! Seeing the simple meals that these girls make for each other every single day made me smile. I can see them working together each evening to make this and serving it to each other and gathering to eat as a group. Standing in solidarity together as they continue to heal together.

Below is an introduction by Kelsey and the recipes for a typical meal at the Kwagala Project home base. Please take the time to visit the Kwagala website and to also visit them on Facebook and Twitter. Look for an upcoming post about Kwagala project on Bloggers Without Borders as well.