3-Ingredient Nutty Granola Bars

3-Ingredient Nutty Granola Bars

3-Ingredient Nutty Granola Bars The grocery situation changes almost constantly now. A couple of weeks ago, the local supermarket had no toilet paper and no flour but plenty of eggs. Last week, I nabbed the second last bag of flour and picked up a dozen 

3-Ingredient Hard-Top Chocolate Sauce

3-Ingredient Hard-Top Chocolate Sauce

Hard-Top Chocolate Sauce I endured a challenging childhood. My mother, a die-hard scratch cook and baker, refused to buy the cardboard biscuits and waxy bottled sauces other kids took for granted. For years, I suffered from a range of maladies, including Nesquik® Envy and Magic-Shell-Chocolate-Sauce 

3-Ingredient Raspberry-mango sorbet

3-Ingredient Raspberry-mango sorbet

I hear eggs and flour are hard to find right now, so how about a refreshing frozen treat for the weekend? This 3-Ingredient Raspberry-Mango Sorbet uses frozen fruit, which was well-stocked the last time I ventured to the grocery store. That was last week, but 

Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper Soup

Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper Soup

There are two types of people in this world. Soup people and non-soup people. Soup people will share their favourite recipes, ideas, and tips. Non-soup people will give you their portion. Either way, soup people win. I am a soup person. My husband is not. 

Egg-Free Depression-Era Chocolate Cake

Egg-Free Depression-Era Chocolate Cake

Friends have had trouble finding eggs in the grocery stores. Mom to the rescue – yet again! My mother was born in the height of the Great Depression. Eggs were scarce, as was butter, milk, and other perishables. A whole genre of dairy- and egg-free 

Basic Granola with Variations

Basic Granola with Variations

Basic Granola with Variations I’ve been making granola since my university days. It was simple and affordable and endlessly flexible. I didn’t use a recipe. I just eyeballed it. This was before the Internet, when cookbooks were limited and recipes were scribbled by hand on 

3-Ingredient Strawberry roll-ups

3-Ingredient Strawberry roll-ups

In the past week, I’ve rejuvenated my sourdough starter, made several loaves of bread, simmered vats of stock, and cooked up batches of soup. Today, I’m sharing a recipe for a fruit treat that’s marketed to kids, but proves irresistible to adults — 3-Ingredient Strawberry 

Apple Crisp with Oat Topping

Apple Crisp with Oat Topping

Well, it took a pandemic to get me out of the classroom and back blogging. Since everyone’s stuck inside and avoiding grocery stores, I’m getting a lot of questions about cooking and baking with items on hand. I’ll start with a recipe I rely on 

Burnt Caramel Nut Brittle

Burnt Caramel Nut Brittle

I’ve decided to change the idiom from “watching paint dry” to “waiting for sugar to caramelize”. It doesn’t roll off the tongue, but it’s a fair description of the process. This recipe for Burnt Caramel Nut Brittle calls for deeply caramelized sugar. While it doesn’t