Bake with abandon!
Have I ever mentioned that I’m impatient? Well I am. These cookies prove it. I was to bring a snack to last night’s meeting and I’d been wanting an excuse to try another recipe from Linda Braun’s Everything Flax. This seemed like the perfect opportunity …
Update: If you have a mango allergy, as it turns out some of my readers do, you can substitute papaya, peaches or nectarines. Pineapple will taste lovely but have a slightly firmer texture. This is mango ginger chutney. A small promotional brochure from the LCBO …
If you aren’t aware of the cookbook contest, check out the details here. Whitecap Books is generously giving away six of their food and wine titles to one lucky winner. Three of the books focus on healthy eating and are featured along with the contest …
Look what arrived at our house yesterday. Sunshine AND chocolate. Does it get any better than that? These eggs came home with Andrew in a fancy container with a hinged lid. Their pastel shells encase gourmet milk chocolate, and a single container cost more than …
People ask Andrew if being married to a food blogger means he eats wonderful meals all the time. His response? “My life is a series of weeks. Sometimes you eat ice cream for seven days. Sometimes it’s all soup.” In my defense, there was salad …
This past week I’ve faced the challenges of my husband’s junk food obsession. I must have done a good job since he enjoyed an “unprovoked salad” just to have the homemade ranch dressing. However, I’m now stuck. This week’s Reader Question comes from a former …
Some things taste better than they look. This beige-on-beige pie is far more decadent than its monochrome colour scheme suggests. But this is what Andrew wanted, so this is what he got. Judging from the dearth of butterscotch cream pie recipes, this must be an …
I haven’t bought bottled salad dressing in years. Not only is homemade vinaigrette quick and easy to make, it tastes so much better than the store bought versions, I no longer even bother to walk down the dressing aisle. Ask me about the latest trends …