Living in the capitol of British Columbia (yes it is Victoria, not Vancouver), you sometimes forget that there are reasons why we are so overrun with tourists during the summer. You forget that attractions abound all over the city and are beautiful, wondrous places to take yourself and your children. With this in mind, last weekend we […]
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Summer has finally peeked out from behind the clouds here in Victoria and we’ve been taking advantage of every barely warm moment. If it’s not raining, we find something to do . Last week we had to go downtown for a little eyeglass repair emergency (the trouble with kids…), and hit the busy streets right
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I want to write something witty today. Really I want to amaze you with my awesome ability to rear to children, wirte and develop recipes, take gorgeous photos and still have time to write amazingly thoughtful prose.
Too bad I have lost half my brain cells this week. Hubby went away. For 5 days. Oh sure, my parents are here to help me, but that doesn’t get me anywhere at night. This little lady you see above has a very low respect for bedtime. Especially mine.
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I know, I know. Everyone has a chocolate chip cookie recipe on their blog….sigh…borrrrrrriiiiiiiing. Well, that may be what you think, and I’m sorry to hear that, this recipe has a very good reason, two, actually. I made these wonderfully, delectable, crispy edged yet soft centered, totally stand up to their name, cookies for Culinary
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Now we all know that things don’t always go 100% as planned. To me this is what experimenting in the kitchen is all about. When you are passionate about food, you take risks with it. You do daring things in the kitchen, you risk ingredient’s lives for recipes you’ve never even seen before, you make
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I love making cake. Love it. It’s such a fun process. Baking the cake, making the filling and frosting or ganache or glaze or whatever you want! There are so many possibilities. Which is why I offered up my powers of cake baking and divine frosting whipping for my Father in law’s __st birthday. (Left
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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