Category: food
Every year, my office does a Hallowe’en potluck. Eager to redeem myself after last year’s deformed ghosts, I decided to make these Spooky Halloween Eyeballs ((Props to Nancy for bringing this recipe to my attention. Warning to Dr. Dan: There is a spider in the picture of the eyeballs on that site. I’d tell you […]
After yesterday’s bread baking, I also made some vanilla extract. My sister’s been making her own vanilla extract for ages and I decided it was high time I tried it myself! And I have to say – it’s super duper easy! The hardest part was finding the vanilla beans! Seriously, all it takes is a […]
I had to do a bunch of stuff around the house today – since I’ve decided to do my hot yoga in the mornings before work, I need to be uber organized! – so I decided that since I was going to be home for a chunk of the day (in between morning yoga and […]
Beth can’t come to the blog right now because she’s in a sugar coma, having discovered a store in Surrey that sells vegetarian marshmallows. Let me repeat that: Beth found a store that sells freaking vegetarian freaking marsh- freaking -mallows!! For the uninitiated, you may want to read the blog posted entitled “The Tale of […]
I have long wanted to try making cinnamon buns, but to be honest, I’ve been kind of scared that they’d be a disaster. I don’t know why – usually I’m confident in my cooking and baking – but cinnamon buns seemed like too big a mountain to climb. However, after trying – and succeeding at […]
I *would* have written a real blog posting today, but Kalev came over for dinner and we had too much fun chatting and cooking and now I’m too sleepy to write anything of any substance. I was going to post a picture of the dinner, which consisted of Greek salad and Pad Thai ((I know, […]
So I was at the produce store the other day and I needed some fresh herbs for the risotto I was planning to make for dinner. For just $2.29, I could get a package of basil: Fresh herbs, I find, typically last for about a week before they go bad. Right next to the packaged […]
So, the problem with baking bread is, well, you end up with a lot of bread. Even though I brought a whole loaf to work, I still had a lot more bread left than I could eat. The solution: make some bread pudding! Now, I’ve never made bread pudding before, so I went to the […]
I was in the mood to cook something exciting for dinner tonight, but I couldn’t seem to find any recipes that got me jazzed up, so instead I decided to channel my creative cooking energy into baking some bread. I baked some last week, but it turned out too dry, so I went in search […]
I was in the mood to cook something new today, but had the damndest time trying to figure out what I wanted to make. I searched through tonnes of vegetarian recipes online, but none of them really caught me. In the end, I decided just to try a new veggie burger recipe, my tried and […]