It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas (sung in a nice Bing Crosby-style voice … not really!). And this year, due to all the other baking and cooking and entertaining we have been doing recently, I wasn’t going to bake cookies for the neighbors. But then, they kept bringing us Christmas gifts, so I […]
The Brownie experiment
Last weekend it was all about zucchinis. This weekend it’s all about brownies. 4 different recipes to be exact … According to Wikipedia (the expert on all topics!), a brownie is ‘a flat, baked dessert square’ that is ‘a cross between a cake and a soft cookie in texture’. I was given a few recipes […]
All things zucchini
Everything is bigger in America. Including zucchinis. A guy at work was telling me about the zucchinis he had grown in his veggie garden and talked about bringing some in for me. I didn’t really expect him to (a) remember to bring any in for me or (b) the size of them. So one day […]
The oatmeal raisin cookie challenge
I love cookies … and cookie dough. Which is better, I wonder? Anyway, I was in a baking mode last week and decided to make some oatmeal raisin cookies … as you do! I received one of my regular e-mails with a recipe for ‘healthy’ oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and thought it was my duty to […]
The gluten-free snickerdoodle challenge
Ok, so for those of you following along, you will know that I love cookies (and the dough). And I love making cookie crusts for cheesecakes, pies, etc. Well, I got it into my head that I needed to find a go-to recipe for a cookie crumb crust that didn’t involve peanut butter. I know, […]
4th July weekend
Happy 4th July to all the Americans out there! I decided to embrace the fact that we now live in the US and went all out with what we considered to be stereotypical American food. Lots of cooking, lots of eating, but it was worth every minute of it! I actually had the Friday off […]
Peanut butter birthday weekend
Abby and I get to share birthdays within a week of each other. Abby’s was last week, mine is this week. So last week was all about what she wanted to eat, this week is all about me. And peanut butter … lots of it! I went all out and had saved up a number […]
A challenging break
It’s been a tough decision for me, but this week I have decided to take a break from my US National Food Day Challenge. This is for a number of reasons, but the main one is that I found myself totally consumed with what I needed to make each week, and making lots of food […]
Lessons from no-refined sugar January
January is almost over. And I’ve gone through the whole month (and the week after Christmas Day) without eating any refined sugar (but I have had maple syrup), meat or dairy. It’s only been this past week that I’ve started having some animal products (eggs and honey in baked goods). Still no dairy or meat […]
Whole foods, plant based
‘Whole foods, plant based, no refined sugar’ – that’s my goal for January this year. Mainly the no refined sugar bit. This came after the massive sugar ‘hangover’ I experienced on the day after Christmas Day, where I spent the majority of that morning in bed with a major headache. I thought … something has […]