I came home today after work and started making the latest recipe for my online-bake-a-long group: the Apple Pielettes from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi. I decided that I wasn’t going to use the apricots, because I didn’t want to go to make a special shopping trip to buy them, and I switched out the…
Archives for October 2015
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Loaf, Domesticity, & Why I Freeze My Zucchini
I’ve been planning to make a post about pumpkin pie, as a way to use up the canned pumpkin that I previously posted about, but I couldn’t resist the call of the frozen zucchini in my freezer. So naturally I had to make a chocolate chip zucchini loaf! Why do I have frozen zucchini in…
Tiger Cakes & The Rare Case of Too Much Chocolate!
It’s post-Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, and I feel like I ate my weight in stuffing this long weekend. I did manage to go on a bit of a hike yesterday, and came home all energized and feeling good (or at least less guilty about all that – very, very delicious – stuffing). And then…
Canning Pumpkin: From Gourd to Gourmet
Things I have canned in the last year: lemon curd strawberry-cranberry jam strawberry-rhubarb jam strawberry-peach jam wine jelly limoncello (ok, so I didn’t can it, but I did keep it in a can! Does that count?) pickled beets pickled mixed vegetables and now…PUMPKIN! That’s right, I’m in the middle of making my own pumpkin pie,…
Memories of Meals Past: Carrot Muffins & Apple-Pear Butter
I had some carrots in the fridge that I wanted to use up, and I was craving something sweet but healthy, so last night I made carrot muffins using this recipe. I meant to post it last night but after baking until the wee hours of the morning, I thought I should actually get some sleep, so while it’s not a tbt feature,…