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Rounding out this year’s Christmas baking, I decided to try making these sparkling cranberries. Mine don’t look quite as uniformly coated as those in the photo on that site (the sugar is a bit clumpy on mine), but then again I didn’t use the slightly chunkier sugar that they recommended. Hopefully, as with meringue, I’ll […] →Read more
Today was the first day of my Christmas holidays! The way that vacation works at my job you have to accumulate your vacation entitlement from July to June for a given calendar year (e.g., you accumulate vacation time to be used during 2009 from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009 ) ((I can’t really […] →Read more
As per Krista Lee’s request, here’s a photo of my “piping dohickey”: It’s totally awesome for decorating cakes or cookies, as I find that it is much easier on your hands to push the plunger to dispense the icing than it is to squeeze a decorator bag, particularly when you are decorating a huge cake […] →Read more
The alternate title for this blog posting: UFC ((Ultimate Fighting Championship)) is the Grinch who stole three of the bars of Christmas. So now that my liver is functioning again, it’s time to blog about the 12 Bars of Christmas ’09 ((yes, I do realize that it’s been more than a week since 12* Bars, […] →Read more
At noon today ((3 p.m. Eastern)), the first annual Snow CyberCookies bake-stravaganza ’09 began! Five hours later, two kitchens were full of all sorts of baked goodness! My sister, my niece and my mom baked up a storm in Nancy’s kitchen in Toronto – they made whipped shortbread, chocolate sandwich cookies, peanut butter cookies and […] →Read more
So here I am, chemicals on my head, with my head is being toasted to ensure that said chemicals rid my hair of the atrocious two inch long roots that I’ve let get way out of hand! [I wanted to put the*awesome* photo of me under the dryer right here, but I’m writing this on […] →Read more
When we were little, my sister and I did a lot of baking with our mom. At Christmastime, my Aunt Wendy would come over and we’d bake up a storm – cookies and squares and crazy concoctions from recipes in Canadian Living magazine. I distinctly remember learning fractions in elementary school and thinking “this is […] →Read more
I was quite excited when I first heard that Malcolm Gladwell had a new book out. I received Outliers from Sarah & Dave for Christmas last year, which I devoured while I was in Mexico and soon after I discovered the free e-audiobooks at the library, I quickly devoured Blink and The Tipping Point too. […] →Read more
In case you were wondering, I did not, in fact, die before, during or after the 12 Bars of Christmas. I’ve just been too busy ((seriously. I have three laundry buckets overflowing with clean laundry as I haven’t had time to fold laundry the last three times I’ve done laundry. And I’ve only done the […] →Read more
…’til the start of the 12 Bars of Christmas ’09. My liver hurts already. I was just flipping through my blog postings from the previous 12 Barses ((Barses is the plural of Bars, right?)) and realized that this is my 4th year of 12 Barring, not my 3rd as I was thinking it was. Not […] →Read more