Last year I recommitted to a previous failed resolution: learn to make good homemade rolls, and make them (almost) every time I need buns. The bun quest is over for me, in the nick of time before it’s time to make resolutions again! Check these beauties owwwwt. In hindsight I should’ve started in the trustworthy […]
Gingerbread Pancakes
Gingerbread, minus the problem that is nutmeg, is my pumpkin spice. There is no cozier flavour or homier smell; fall and winter are just made for gingerbread. I have a recipe for chewy gingersnaps I make all year, and my kids would choose them over chocolate chip cookies any day. I also have a recipe […]
Blackberry Crumble Cinnamon Rolls
The other evening, around dinner time, I did something I swore I would never do: I barbecued. It has always been my fear that if I barbecued just once Carl would give up barbecuing duties, no longer feeling needed in that particular realm. Turns out my fear was unfounded. Carl came home just in time to put out […]
What We Eat Most
As 2015 draws to a close, I thought about doing another Top 10-type post as I have in years past. Then I thought, does anyone really want to know that chocolate éclairs and the best ever banana muffins are STILL the most popular recipes around here? Or do they want to know what recipes we eat every week, […]
French Toast Croissants
While I was teaching the other day, a student asked me what time it was. Caught off guard, I stared blankly at the clock. I’ve never been great with clocks, and having no watch and no cell phone means I generally don’t know what time it is, and am not too concerned about it. I […]
Top 10 Recipes of 2014
Tis the season for looking back, looking forward, looking inward and looking upward. The backdrop for so much of this activity, as for so many of life’s moments, is food. Again this year in our home we’ve been blessed with an incredible abundance of good food, and eaten our way through ups, downs, and everyday […]
Simply Scrumptious Cinnamon Buns
I’m not one to get easily annoyed. Most things roll off me pretty easily, and I consider myself fairly patient. As a parent, for instance, I can handle whining, complaining, puking, sniffing, questioning and crying without batting an eye or letting my blood pressure rise. But the second you introduce a cough? I become downright murderous. One of […]
Fall Faves: 10 Recipes to Make Before Christmas
FALL! It’s officially here, in all it’s rainy, cooler, my-birthday-in-sight glory. There are so many recipes on this bloggity blog that I love SO MUCH, and sometimes I hate that they get a little lost in the archives and the attention all goes to the latest recipe. I want to share some of my absolute […]
Peach Crumble Cinnamon Rolls
Fellow carb lovers unite, and rejoice! This recipe may hold the title for “best your kitchen will ever smell”, guaranteed to thrill guests, sell homes, win over neighbours, or any other form of persuasion you may be looking to enact. Cinnamon rolls already give off one of the most amazing smells known to man, and […]
Double Chocolate Skillet Cookie
Skillet cookies have more than one use around here. Not only do they satisfy any major sweet craving handily, they are also cooked in my cast iron skillet, which apparently can help with iron intake. Dark chocolate also happens to be high in iron, so this extra-chocolately jumbo cookie is really a health investment. My […]
