Author: Charmian Christie

No-Churn Double Raspberry Ice Cream Have some ice cream. It'll make you feel better. If you're hot, it will cool you down. If you're hungry, it will fill you up. If you're tired, it will fuel you. Ice cream is one of my favourite summer treats, and...

No recipe today. Instead a Sunday Story in honour of Father's Day, showcasing my dad's quirky sense of humour as we take unpredictable rides in a car with a mind of its own. Rogue Vehicle Our old LaSabre had no power brakes or power steering. The...

CRANBERRY-ORANGE OATMEAL WAFFLES Pancakes in the Patio is a long-standing summer tradition in our family. Father’s Day usually kicks off the outdoor pancake season. Canada Day, the August Civic Holiday, and birthdays keep the tradition going straight through to Labour Day. Any time the weather is...

brown butter icing I promised you a recipe for brown butter icing a while ago, back when I posted my recipe for No-Egg Browned-Butter Cake. It took a while, but here it is, in all its decadent, messy glory. The resulting icing tastes a bit like...

Either Way Marinara Sauce Pardon me for bragging, but this sauce is pretty good. Okay. It's really good. How do I know? Recipe tester feedback. They liked it. A lot. This recipes from my first book, The Messy Baker: More than 75 Delicious Recipes from a...

No recipe today. Instead, a Sunday Story about a clever mom and a gullible child. I was very young and very fussy. No. Not so much fussy as discerning. I ate a wide range of food with great pleasure. However, when I disliked something, I was...

No-Churn pralines and Cream When I was a kid, store-bought ice cream was plain and simple. Chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla. You might get a carton of Neapolitan on a special occasion or some Spumoni at Christmas. But if you wanted fancy, you had to get creative...

Classic Rhubarb Pie I grew up with a scrappy patch of rhubarb in the back garden that survived the coldest, snowiest winters -- despite neglect bordering on abuse. I assumed rhubarb was a hardy Canadian crop, bred for our climate. Not so. Rhubarb originated in China,...

No-Churn Chocolate Crackle Ice Cream In a classic case of "Do as I say, not as I do" I decided to place the plastic wrap OVER the container of ice cream, not directly on the surface. I know better, but I did it anyway. I wanted...

No recipe today. Instead, a story about berry picking in my youth. Ignore the calendar and temperature. Summer arrives with strawberries. At least it used to. Long before giant, white-on-the-inside California berries made themselves at home in Canadian grocery stores, strawberries were an annual, limited-time...