A Little Home Made Gift Guide
It's the time of year when many of us are scrambling around searching for the perfect gifts. Rest your weary heads, I'm here to help out with some delicious home made gift suggestions, plus a…
It's the time of year when many of us are scrambling around searching for the perfect gifts. Rest your weary heads, I'm here to help out with some delicious home made gift suggestions, plus a…
Every year at this time I bring a new shortbread recipe to the table. A fresh iteration of an old idea based around the original Buckwheat Cacao Nib Cookie, I like to create a new…
Something happens to me around festivals and holidays. I become fixated on (a) seasonal baked good(s) and transform my kitchen into a gift making factory. Often I am not even sure who will be the…
Anyone who spends time on these pages knows that I love a variation on a theme - one basic idea that can be used in multiple iterations and with numerous flavour options. The beauty, is…
I write this while taking a break from what I can only describe as an obsessive holiday baking session. It would be generous to say this baking frenzy happens only once a year, but as…
Nesting Kitchen Essential –Rosti Bowls These design classics were my first and best ever set of stacking bowls, pilfered from my grandmothers kitchen while her back was turned. They are ...
I signed off my last newsletter with the news that I would be writing to you today from the shores of Southern California. But sometimes our best laid plans get a last minute overhaul and…
What’s my culinary solution to the holiday madness? Ginger cake. Versatile and deeply nostalgic, a moist molasses-y ginger-y slice is as irresistible with a mid morning cup of coffee as it is for a teatime…
Chocolate chip cookies are the ultimate wonder food. Equally delicious consumed in any form: raw, cooked, overcooked-and-crispy, frozen-and-raw (thanks Ben and Jerry's), cooked-and-frozen (ice cream sandwiches), underbaked-and-melty, or simply piping hot straight out of the…
May was a little bit of an insane month, and I just realised that while I have a backlog of recipes ready to post, I have not managed to put ...
Last week, for the first time ever, I taught a class. Patience is not a virtue that I really possess, and thus I always assumed that without patience, I could never teach. But as I…
This weekend we celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, which in this household mainly consists of baking and sharing (and of course consuming multiple) Hamantaschen, a triangle shaped cookie traditionally filled with either prune, apricot or poppyseed. If you…
A staple around here, you can find them heart shaped and filled with blackberry jam in February and in the summer they are a favourite ice cream accompaniment. Generally, they are the ideal snack biscuit…
Roasted figs are a gift of the season and personally my favourite way to celebrate and punctuate the end of summer. I could eat these sweet ruby centred soft gems all day in every iteration…
Gifting season is upon us people……..and if you are thinking about the perfect gift for the chocaholic in your life, this Pump Street Chocolate Rare Batch Subscription Box is a ...
Well, that was a year……. The year I faced undoubtedly the hardest times of my life. The year filled with love, devoted friendship, immeasurable support, kindness and a hefty dose of magic. Thank you…