It’s over. The holiday season is gone. The decorations are put away, the bags of ripped paper are in the recycling, the stuffed bellies are recovering and the year has started anew. It’s time to make resolutions, amends, promises…blah, blah, blah…. I don’t usually fall into the camp of resolution makers. I try to fix […]
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Until a few weeks ago, I had never made an angel food cake. Whaaaat? I know, right? I have my own chickens, I love sweets, I can bake up a storm and I have never even attempted it. Why? Because to me, angel food cakes have always been the loafer of the cake world. Boring.
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Corn. Zucchini. Late harvest vegetables that we all (mostly) love. The only problem with zucchini is that it has a mind of it’s own and can take over vast swaths of your garden if left unchecked. Even an avid gardener (me) can lose track of where the newest veggie has taken hold and all of
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As the summer draws to a close, I am hanging on tight with everything I can muster. The days are shorter, but I try to pack even more into every minute that I can. You might have noticed a lack of personal photos accompanying my recipes like I used to have. This I can blame
Today I want to talk about a few things. First, there’s this: Foodies of the World is a book about food and foodies being published by the Slattery Media Group out of Australia. A few months back they contacted me about being featured in a book they were working on and I couldn’t resist but
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I’ve bean on a bit of a Mexican kick lately, as you’ll see in my next post as well (Enchiladas!) and I just can’t get enough of it. The flavours of Mexico have been brought even closer to home now that my parents live there for half the year. Each year my Mother brings home
As much as I’ve been going on and on about how much a love fall and how the weather is cooling off, it’s still 80 degrees every afternoon. Mornings are another thing altogether though, with an average of about 45 degrees. So with this odd mix of cooler mornings wrapped in sweaters, hugging my cuppa
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I had some left over buttermilk in the fridge this morning. That always happens to me. Most recipes call for 1 cup, but I can only ever find 500mL containers in our store. I hate to waste food (there’s that hippie talkin’ again), so I have to find useful ways of using it up. I
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