Category: food
A long, long time ago in a galaxy that is right here, my friend Linda noticed that “make homemade pasta” was item #43 on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days and was all “I have pasta making attachments for my KitchenAid mixer. We should totally get together and make some pasta”. And […]
Ah, the four day long weekend. The most glorious of all the long weekends, what with the four days and all. Friday, I had a wonderful sleep in. I didn’t intend to sleep quite so long as I did, but it was so great to get a good long rest and not wake up to […]
A “happy birthday/congrats on finishing your MBA” card from my lovely friend, soon-to-be-Dr. Martha! Yesterday was Bethmas. Apparently I was so busy preparing and then celebrating that I never even gave you the usual Bethmas Eve greeting ((Though I did tweet it.)). But now I’m here to give you a recap. I decided that, since […]
This is one of the suggestions for a blog posting and my answer to it is “I don’t think so.” Since becoming unvegetarian, I’ve enjoyed experimenting with trying (and cooking!) different meals that I hadn’t ever had before, as well as eating a few things that I remember enjoying in my pre-vegetarian days ((See: Mini […]
Clearly, I’m on a roll of blogging about my goals for 2013, so now let’s look at this one: Make 10 meals that I’ve never made before. This one I made a concerted effort to achieve, with a spreadsheet to track ideas of things to make and then to track when I made them. Cornish […]
Speaking of best laid plans, our Christmas plans got a little bit turned around this year. We were originally going to do a Christmas turkey dinner at my brother-in-common-law’s cousin’s place last Sunday and then have a light but fancy dinner today, but then, because the whole Greater Toronto Area iced over, we couldn’t go […]
Christmas Baking 2013 was a success! We baked a grand total of 9 things: Chinese almond cookies Jan Hangel cookies flaxseed crackers gingerbread marshmallow puff tartlets – which I renamed Hufflepuffs mocha nut butterballs shortbread Turtle bars white chocolate & macadamia nut cookies Here’s Madeline, baking Turtle bars: Some chopped macadamia nuts: Thomas and Grandma […]
One of the suggestions for blog postings was “the next recipe you are going to tackle”. And fortunately for me, this is an easy one because I just so happened to have picked a new recipe to try out tomorrow for Christmas Baking Day: Marshmallow Puff Tartlets. And just to be different, I’m going to […]
A long, long time in a galaxy far, far away ((This is one of those postings that was in my Drafts folder, as just a title, that I mentioned in my last blog posting.)), I asked Twitter what blender I should buy ((My ex owned a blender when we moved in together and my magic […]
Hands down, my favourite Christmas tradition is baking with my family. As far back as I can remember, we’d get together to bake Christmas goodies that we’d give out to family and friends and have around the house for when people came to visit. When I was young, my Aunt Wendy would come over to […]