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Even more cookies! When you make cookies every week or so, you can easily get stuck in a rut of making the same ones, so you need a LOT of great recipes to cycle through to keep everyone on their toes. I think plain ol’ chocolate chip cookies are probably my favourite food ever, and […]
About Anna
I believe in God, the power of optimism, and the ability of food to bring people together. I love to share everyday homemade food with family and friends (and the internetz)! I love cheese, proper grammar, an organized house, dark chocolate, my husband, and my 5 sweet kids.
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I wish it was market day
Sunny spring mornings like this, when Carl doesn’t have to work till the afternoon and everyone is well-rested, make me miss Ottawa. A morning like this would almost certainly mean making the 10-minute jaunt to downtown to enjoy a beautiful 20 minute walk along the canal to Byward Market where we could enjoy the […]
My Stroke of Insight
I’ve been reading this book for Book Club (if you’re Katy or Deanna, stop reading now or read away and skip reading the book!) and I had high expectations, which can never be a good thing going into either a book or a movie. I’ve learned it’s much better to be pleasantly surprised by […]
Hide & Seek
Can you tell what’s what? Apparently my taste in home decor is not so different from my taste in clothing. Combined with my leather pants, I play a mean game of hide and seek – no one ever thinks to look on the couch.
Raspberry Chia Cheesecake
I am notorious for buying ingredients for recipes I intend to make and then forgetting what recipe I had in mind 3 seconds after I get my groceries home. This results in random ingredients that languish in my pantry and fridge until I notice that they are about to expire and have to put […]
Five years
After meeting in Grade 8 and having a slightly bumpy almost four years of dating over a 6 year span from Grade 11 onwards, my high school sweetheart finally popped the question in January 2006 and in May 2006 we tied the knot! Five years ago I barely whispered (thanks to a combination of stage fright […]
Happy Birthday Gemma!
Today was my sweet little girl’s 3rd birthday!! I can hardly believe it, especially since those terrible twos have yet to really hit. Looking back, God sure knew what he was doing when he gave me this little girl. A self-proclaimed non-fan of kids, Carl knew when he married me that kids weren’t too high […]
Why they invented Mother’s Day
Last night’s schedule, which is very similar to the night’s schedule for the past 8 months or so, for those of you who are interested and wondering if mother’s really do deserve a day of their very own: 11:00pm – Go to bed. 1:00am – Feed Kristopher. 1:45am – Get up to find Gemma’s lost […]
Caramel Chocolate Chipper Cookies
So named because they will make you chipper. Do people still use that word? Chipper? At least, do they use it to describe moods, or just in reference to a wood chipper? Sometimes I feel “chipper” is just the perfect word for the mood du jour. Either way – more cookies! If you’re like me, […]
How to attract a mate?
A few days ago I was driving and saw a guy driving a Dodge Ram truck with this decal across his entire back window: Really? I have a pretty lenient sense of humor, I think, but really? While I recognize that I am clearly not the target audience for this particular truck driver, I’m kind […]
