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 […]
Carrot Muffins
Carl was gone for a week earlier this month, and one of my kids said to me, “This will be really hard for you, because now you’ll have to get up on time instead of always sleeping in.” Wait, what?! True, I don’t get up at 5:45 like my middle child, but I am definitely […]
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 […]
Slow Cooker Granola
It has come to my attention that not everyone eats granola, and I have a problem with this. Granola is so delicious, so easy, so customizable, and makes yogurt so much more edible. In an attempt to eat more protein and less sugar, one addition to the fridge has been Greek yogurt. I know I’m […]
Ricardo’s Chocolate Crepes
A recent girls’ weekend in Whistler, BC saw us searching the streets in the torrential rain at 11:00 am, having just checked out of our hotel, determined to find delicious crepes before embarking on a day of shopping. I had promised amazingness at a place Carl and I had enjoyed in the past, but alas, […]
Perfect Chocolate Chip Muffins
You know when you see those big, bakery style muffins in double chocolate, carrot, and vanilla chocolate chip and you just want to have them allllll, even if you can literally see the oil oozing out of their over-stuffed pores? I do. Chocolate chip muffins were my siren call in every box of muffins my […]
Nutty Granola
I made the grevious error of buying “all-natural” trail mix a few weeks ago. Doesn’t sound so bad, does it? A variety-packed blend of natural, raw nuts and seeds, mixed with some dried berries and even the occasional bonus chocolate chunk – sounds pretty good on paper. But throw in way too many tiny pumpkin seeds and […]
Lentil Oat Berry Muffins
Well, how many people resolved over the holidays that the time had come to really commit to their goals to eat healthier, sleep more, exercise better, and all those other equally noble, important things? Yeah, me too. Then I got hooked on Suits the very first week of the new year, and sleep and exercise went […]
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 […]
Banana Bran Muffins
There’s a large bush on our walk to the bus stop that keeps encroaching further and further onto the sidewalk. Normally this isn’t the kind of thing I would comment on as, not being the type to trim my own bushes, who am I to judge. Except this particular bush always has multiple bees busily […]
