Carl is off in Ottawa doing his oral defense for his PhD exams as we speak, which means I’m home with four kids trying to keep my head above water and, as you might know or guess, survival mode + house hunting + toilet training + paper due for school = recipe for disaster. Since […]
Chewy Gingerbread White Chocolate Blondies
I feel like you probably think I’m the “homemade gift giving” type. Truth is, we eat pretty much everything I make ourselves, and not just because I’m terrible at sharing. I have an unending fear of giving someone an edible gift with a hair in it, a very real possibility 3.5 months post-baby. Also, the […]
Gingerbread Scones
Scones again! she sang with glee. And these ones, they smell Christmas-y! Vanilla icing, ginger spicing, These new scones have all the nice-things. Its been awhile since we had a new scone, don’t roll your eyes at me like that. This recipe from an old Cooking Light magazine has been on my to-try list for a […]
Mini Pumpkin Cinnamon Muffins
I feel like we go through excessive amounts of both soap and toilet paper. You’d think we could get it down to just one or the other. I don’t know if I should say anything though, because it might be ok to scrimp on one, but I don’t really want anyone reducing usage of both simultaneously, which is […]
Cranberry Chocolate Chip Muffins
Breakfast doesn’t get much better than this. This is the time of year when you need to buy scads of fresh cranberries and squirrel them away in your freezer for the rest of the year, to make things like Cranberry Lemon Scones, Cranberry Orange Sweet Rolls, Cranberry Sauce Oat Bars, and these-here muffins. My 6-year-old isn’t […]
Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake
Do you have anything you’d do differently depending if your significant other is watching you? Last week I had to say a few words and accept a little certificate for a writing award at university, and it was a strange thing. I’ve known Carl since Grade 8 and we’ve been through all sorts of things […]
Chewy Pumpkin S’mores Cookies
I was going to go easy on the pumpkin this year, I really was. But you know how pumpkin is, right? You use some and there’s some left, so you find another recipe you simply must make, but that needs 1/4 cup more pumpkin than what you had left over, so you open some more pumpkin…the cycle […]
Mom’s Recipes: Banana Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Mom’s here today showing everyone who ever doubted exactly where I got my math skills and love of happy dances from :) Let’s not pretend this cake is anything but an excuse to eat a massive layer of cream cheese frosting and feel ok about it because there’s fruit in the cake. Also, before we […]
Bran Muffins
How boring am I today, here to expound the virtues of good ol’ bran muffins. Besides making these boring-in-a-good-way muffins, other tasks done this week included colour coordinating my closet – too much excitement, right? Although seriously, a colour-coordinated closet with only clothes I actually wear and everything else thrown out or donated and every hanger […]
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 […]
