Looks luscious, doesn’t it? A few weeks ago, a friend sent me an email with a link to a cool site called PixelGirl Shop, one of those online retailers that represents a variety of artisans. Specifically, she pointed me to the chocolate bracelet from Amyville. And she was right on the money when she predicted [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2007’
Cute Lemon Bars
This might actually be cheating, I’m not sure, but the goal with “Treat of the Week” was to bake something different every week for a year. So while I’m recycling the recipe (with a few variations) from a post back in June ’06, please accept my apologies if you’ve made the sexy version of my [...]
Let There Be Pie
About a year ago, I wrote a post bemoaning the transfats in shortening and a bunch of people suggested that I try a butter crust for making pies. I was generally pleased with a butter crust – it handles great and tastes delicious, but I was never totally happy with the fact that it seemed [...]
Treat of the Week – Lemon Pepper Brownies
It might surprise some people to know that while I love chocolate in bar form, I’m not a huge fan of chocolate-flavoured things. Chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, chocolate pudding… all leave me cold. I’ll eat ‘em if that’s all there is, but a big piece of chocolate cake is never going to be my [...]
News, Updates and Thing to Think About
I got an email the other day from a diet doctor in Ottawa. Now normally the words “diet” and “doctor” in the same sentence would have me grabbing the cookies and running for the hills, but Dr. Yoni Freedhoff has been keeping his own blog where he has been detailing his experience in dealing with [...]
A Casualty in the Battle of Ethiopia
This post started out as your basic coffee comparison. I somehow ended up with three different types of green Ethiopian coffee beans and thought it would be really interesting to roast some of each and compare the three. In the process, though, I lost an old friend. The little black Braun coffee grinder, aka “Grindy”, [...]
Wish You Were Here?
You would if you could smell this bread. Since back in November when every single person on the intarwebs went crazy for the no-knead bread, I’ve been playing a little bit. Reducing quantities, changing flours, adjusting baking times, and most recently, tossing in some lovely dried olives and some olive oil to make what is [...]
Ginger Sparkle Cookies
This recipe comes from one of those Christmas Cookie magazines that hit the newstands around September every year. I stopped buying the things about eight years ago, once I realized it was really just the same recipes over and over with tiny little variations. The original recipe says to make these really big, about 3 [...]
The End of Food
I first heard about Thomas F. Pawlick’s The End of Food, when my editor at Gremolata interviewed him last year. I had forgotten that interview when I finally got around to reading the book, and ended up not liking the book very much, mostly for reasons that had nothing to do with Pawlick’s message and [...]
Mint Nanaimo Bars
Keep your hubby happy, Keep your happy hubby, When he’s a little chubby, He’s a happy pappy! – The Flintstones Greg never asks very much of me. He’s a great guy and my very best friend in the whole world, so when I asked him if he wanted a cake for his birthday this week, [...]
