When I was but a youngster (to differentiate from my advanced years now?!?) I belonged to the Girl Guides of Canada and during one of the meetings, we learned how to make peanut butter cups. It was something like 25 years ago , but what I remember is that it was really easy. Mix icing…
Chocolate-Covered Toffee Breakups aka BEST. CANDY. EVER!
In case you haven’t noticed through my blog posts yet, I have a bit of a sweet tooth. And by “a bit of a sweet tooth”, I mean I have a hollow leg or three when it comes to sweets. I could eat dinner and be completely full, and still find room for dessert. I mean…it’s dessert!…
Foodie Book Review: Some Reflections on Rice, plus Jennifer Klinec’s “The Temporary Bride”
Today’s post is a leeeetle bit of a departure from the usual, but it’s about a book about food…so close enough, says I! The book? Jennifer Klinec’s “The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Food and Love in Iran”. Let me start off by saying that I don’t like rice. Never have, not even as a…
Apple Pielettes & Other Domestic Stories
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…
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…