Last week I was looking up recipes for coffee cake, and found a few that I liked, but being the experimenting baker that I am, I decided to make up a recipe for a tea cake instead. So many of my friends drink tea rather than coffee and I had some pomegranate and cardamom tea […]
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Sourdough Doughnuts
I have been messing around with sourdough for the last few months, and just came across an Instagram account called @sourdough_mania that has some of the sexiest sourdough ideas I have ever seen. Little chef and I created a new sourdough starter early this week and I wanted to make something with it on this beautiful […]
Blueberry Dumplings
Last week we asked for some recipe suggestions from all of our blog followers and we had so many fun responses! Because we had so many responses I decided to do more than one of the recipes. Last night I made Blueberry Dumplings. I have to admit it was my first time and I had […]
Funky Fermentation
Lately I have been dabbling in wild fermentation and had some amazing results. The most recent project has been a whole wheat sourdough starter that I have been making bread with. If you are not familiar with the term, a starter is water and flour, that you mix and let sit for many days, and then “feed” it more flour daily to build it up.
Top Secret
there is nothing that piques my interest like a top secret recipe stowed away with the young heroine on her journey across oceans to a new life in a strange land
10 Ways to up your food game.
I have people ask me all the time how I make such cool things, or create such beautiful dishes. {They also ask how I got so good looking at witty… no actually they don’t but a lady can dream.} So I decided to give you some solid tips to kick your food game up a gear.
A Nod to the Classics
Some recipes are just plain old tried and true classics. Like the oatmeal cookie. The oatmeal cookie has played a starring role in the saga of my childhood. My Oma used to make these in giant batches and feed them to us when we came over to make crafts out of the strange things we […]
Guest Blogging Adventures
As hopefully you have seen on my Facebook Page I have been guest blogging for Vancity Mommy D. It has been quite an adventure, getting my words out there to people who don’t have a clue who I am. Almost a bit liberating at times! Here are the links to the the posts I have done so […]
Cake SMASH!
the awesome and totally messy thing to do when your kid turns one is give them a whole cake and let them destroy it, get high on sugar and end up wailing in the food colouring stained bathtub.