Just Baking

As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, an excitement fills the air. People are preparing their most impressive green outfits, planning meals of “traditional” corned beef and cabbage (bleh), and most importantly, stocking up on the libations. You don’t need much of an excuse to drink around here, but this holiday seems like the perfect reason to […]

 
The bucket, at last, is full again.  For the past four days my sons have been pointing to a kitchen cabinet and saying, in a tone reminiscent of Oliver asking for more, “Mommy, the bucket’s empty.”  Horrors.
The bucket, you see, is the large, deep rectangular storage container in which we keep the cookies.  I love […]

In the March edition of Foods Matter, a magazine for food allergies and intolerances, Lucinda Bruce Gardyne shares a very detailed article on ‘Making gluten-free bread.’  Lucinda is a skilled ‘special-diet’ cook – see her new book, How to Cook for Food Allergies - but her speciality is in fact, making gluten-free bread.  Though you will […]

I tend to be pretty picky with my sweets; I just happen to prefer salty over sweet.  The Husband?  Even more so.  I can probably count on one hand the desserts he will gravitate towards.  When I make one of the “chosen few,” he will demolish them with reckless abandon.  Last weekend, I made one […]

I make at least one bundt cake a week.  A great bundt will disappear from my cake stand within 24 hours.  This one was just such a cake.
I adapted it from a recipe in one of my favorite cookbooks The Foster’s Market Cookbook: Favorite Recipes for Morning, Noon, and Night.  This was one of my […]

I don’t remember which one came first: cooking, or the words that came with the recipes.
My mother had a small collection of pocket size French Cookbooks that I loved reading. The cookbooks had no pictures and no stories, just recipes, words and may be some drawing here and there. Yet, these books played a major […]

These Cranberry Pear Bars were not on the menu for today. I didn’t have all the ingredients for what I originally intended to make so when I saw a frozen package of cranberries in the freezer, I decided to do something with them instead.
I like baking with cranberries because of their tangy flavour and their […]

One of the most popular recipes on my personal blog, Dine and Dish, is a recipe I posted “way back when”. Back when I was a newbie blogger, I posted a recipe for Oooey Gooey Monkey Bread. In that post, I encouraged people to get messy with their kids. Allow them to use their hands […]