Birthday Week – Part 2
After reading about our family tea party for the first born son, please do not think that my husband was short of celebrations on his birthday weekend. Weeks ago he ...
After reading about our family tea party for the first born son, please do not think that my husband was short of celebrations on his birthday weekend. Weeks ago he ...
My Best Discovery – The Flower Appreciation Society I first met Anna and Ellie when, by a stroke of genius, we celebrated a friends milestone birthday at one of their ...
Last week I officially kicked off the holiday season with the smallest Thanksgiving turkey ever to grace my oven. Although most celebrations this year were unlike any other, or placed ...
Rosh Hashana, kicks off a month long Jewish holiday season. It is a two day eating and celebrating fest where we bring in the New Year and consume an abundance of symbolic, mostly sweet foods…
Last night we lit the first Hanukkah candles and to accompany the eight day celebration of miracles and lights, there were latkes. Because there is an unwritten rule around here that every holiday must be…
This was a big week. I finally turned 40 on Monday. I say finally, as I have actually been celebrating for about 7 weeks now and have almost reached 40 celebrations for my 40 years of…
Cheesecake is a staple in this house. It is present at tea parties, summer gatherings, and all celebrations. While I have been making the same recipe for years, this year I felt compelled to alter…
There ain't no party like a Latke Party……. It's Hanukkah next week and this year I am making a variety of flavours (and some new sauces to go on top. Let's just call it the…
I have called this the “Essential Chocolate Cake”, because this is just that recipe that you need in your armoury for an easy birthday cake, light enough to take icing, but decadent enough to enjoy…
This salad is really a choose your own adventure opportunity. Feel free to get creative with your ingredients, adding or subtracting at your will. I really enjoyed playing with the monochrome element here and it…
These chocolate meringue biscuits are undoubtedly the dessert that I make most often. My quick as a flash go to pudding. Likelihood is, if you have eaten at my house, you have tried these rich,…
It has been a month of excess here. Jewish holidays, ridiculous amounts of entertaining and a brief Italian interlude for a friend's spectacular birthday celebration, puts me on an official indulgent meal break.
The month long marathon of Jewish holidays is rapidly approaching and I am back in to the kitchen after weeks of traveling and barely cooking a meal. Rosh Hashana kicks ...
Truth. I had never heard of a Pizookie until last week. Seemingly alone in my culinary ignorance I quickly discovered that the ever popular oversized cookie baked in a pan is merely the generic term…
The end of the year is basically a full on blur of entertaining and indulging. And because I never like to miss an opportunity to jump on both those bandwagons, I’m here with my last…
These triangular shaped sweet filled cookies are traditionally made to celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim. For my entire adult life, without exception I have made the exact same Maida Heater recipe, handed down by…