A week or two ago, back when I made that Strawberry and Lime Cremeaux Pie, I also made a made a meat pie for the DH. I used my favourite vodka pie crust recipe, and mixed up whatever veggies we had in the fridge with a meat and gravy mixture I had leftover from my Meat…
Archives for March 2015
Memories of Meals Past: Baba Ghanoush, an Anti-Inflammatory Diet, & Kitchen Innovations
If you’ve been following along on my blog, you’ll know that I have some Middle Eastern heritage, so I grew up eating things like hummus on a regular basis. (Of course, my mum being very much an international cook, I also grew up eating things like Thai Green Curry, Borscht, and Poffertjes on a regular basis. I have no…
Cook-A-Longs-R-Us: Caramel Corn-Topped Brown Sugar Bars
As my regular readers know, I’m part of a group baking our way through Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Baking Chez Moi. It’s all about Parisian French desserts, and can I just tell you? Yum! Some of the recipes are super-intricate, time-consuming, knock-your-ballerina-flats off, and others are surprisingly quick, like today’s recipe! This week’s recipe is Crispy-Topped Brown…
Memories of Meals Past: Strawberry & Lime Cremeaux Pie
Today being Throwback Thursday (and therefore time for a Memories of Meals Past post), I’m going to write up a recipe for a pie I made last weekend. I went to a St. Patrick’s day party last Saturday, and all the guests were supposed to bring drinks, but seeing as it was also Pi Day, I decided…
My Oma’s Pancake Recipe, and more of that Everlasting Ham!
I was ill a few weeks ago and after recovering, the only thing that I even felt remotely like eating, was my Oma’s (grandmother’s) pancakes. My mother always made these pancakes for Pancake Tuesday, with savoury ones for the dinner and plain ones with sugar for dessert. Mmm…pancakes! While my family calls them Oma’s pancakes, they’re actually more like…