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On Finding that Silver Lining

I will say up front that I hate being cold. I also hate being too hot. I’m a Libra – I don’t go for extremes. But being cold, really, I cannot stand it and it makes me quite grumpy. People always say to me “but you’re Canadian, you must be used to the cold.” I [...]

On Branching Out From Chocolate Chip

Do you ever get stuck in a cooking rut? I don’t necessarily mean this to be a bad thing as rut dishes can be as equally delicious as new dishes. What I mean by “rut” is making the same things again and again because they’re tried, tested, & well loved or safe bets for picky eaters or quick [...]

On a Cookie for Mother Nature

It would appear that Mother Nature is a tad pissed off. In a little more than a year we’ve seen a devastating earthquake in Haiti, unbelievable flooding in Queensland, the recent earthquake in Christchurch, and now the earthquake plus tsunami double whammy in Japan. Oh yeah, and the threatened nuclear fallout. And now the snow there, [...]

On Two Kinds of Christmas Cookies

We all make mistakes in the kitchen, or at least I like to think we do. I certainly do. I’m not talking about deliberately making a change to a recipe or doing some random experimenting. I’m talking about misreading an amount or an ingredient in a recipe, or over/undercooking something, or trying to do too [...]

On Early Foodie Aspirations

I am often asked if I’ve always been into food, or if I’ve always liked to cook. Well, I know I’ve always liked to bake. I have many memories of baking with my mum or grandma when I was a child. As for cooking, I think I first sort of got into cooking was when I [...]

On Cooking With Kids (26/03/10)

I will start by saying that I am completely shattered. Physically and mentally. It doesn’t help that it’s 5:37am (although it’s starting to get light, which is amazing for morale). Mostly it’s because I spent a large part of yesterday cooking with kids.

You may be wondering what ever possessed me to do that… Well, [...]

On Oatmeal and Dried Cranberry Cookies

Sunday lunch

On Sunday we had a family allotment day. The weather was fairly mild and we took along our fantastic “notebook barbecue”( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-BBQ-Grill-Notebook/dp/B001OC5PYY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=garden&qid=1265881876&sr=8-1) as a draw for the kids – barbecued sausages with a roasted marshmallow chaser. They were putty in our hands! After a few hours of fresh air and significant dirt [...]

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