Bleak midwinter days call for cheerful tea towels and citrusy fresh-baked muffins. These are super basic little muffins, quick to whip up and guaranteed to make your house smell delicious. Cardamom isn’t the most common spice out there – it’s crucial to chai tea, which I love, but otherwise I don’t use it super often. […]
Yeasted Sour Cream Coffee Cake
I’ve learned a lot about “atmospheric rivers” in the last couple days, as the rain poured down and our kids’ school flooded, along with so many other homes and roads and businesses. Water is an incredible force of nature, and rivers in the sky are no joke. But when you’re unexpectedly at home with wind […]
Lemon Cheesecake with Strawberry Swirl
We had a work barbecue recently and I was quick to snap up dessert responsibilities. Dessert is one of my favourite things to make, but I like to make it for a crowd so I can eat one serving and share the rest, and we don’t get into the pattern of eating all the dessert […]
Lemon Bundt Cake
Some desserts are just so pretty I wish I could keep them on the counter for a few days as decor. Bundt cakes generally fall into this category, and this lemon bundt cake with its bright lemon glaze is no exception. Isn’t it a cake that just looks like spring? I know it’s officially summer […]
Cookies ‘n’ Cream Happy Cookies
Growing up, my mom would sometimes make cute little sugar-coated peanut butter cookies with chocolate Hershey’s kisses plunked in the middle that we always called simply Happy Cookies. I was feeling in a bit of a funk for awhile this fall, and felt my cookies could use a bit of happy injected into them. Since […]
Buttery French Toast Bake
I have been eyeing French toast bakes for years. I don’t love French toast, but I do very much love French toast croissants, and I do also very much love things that can be made ahead and serve lots of people. The idea of soggy bread makes my sensory issues cringe, but the idea of […]
Mini Cinnamon Muffins
High school cooking class may not have prepared me for daily life in any meaningful way, but we certainly had a good time. There was nothing better than eating your work – so much more visually rewarding than finishing an essay, and so much better smelling than solving a math problem! The one recipe that […]
Monday Moments: A Year of Dates
Last year for Christmas, Carl totally surprised me with 12 envelopes, each containing a date for one month of the year. Each date came with a sweet comment on why he’d thought of that date for that month, and something he liked about me, which kind of felt like a throwback to our actual dating days […]
Bacon-Wrapped Pork Tenderloin
Basically anything wrapped in bacon is going to be pretty okay. But this pork tenderloin rubbed in salt and spices, wrapped in bacon and smothered in barbecue sauce is many times more than okay. It looks pretty impressive even in an unbaked state, if your significant other happens to wander by wondering what’s for dinner, […]
Lemon Cheesecake Squares
Last week my physiotherapist suggested that Carl and I switch sides of the bed. It seems that extended curled-in-a-ball left-side sleeping not only results in thinning hair in one particular spot on my hairline, it may also be contributing to my “twistiness”. That and “shiftiness” are two of her favourite, very technical, words to describe me. […]
