Recipe and Tutorial: Espresso Chocolate Almond Biscotti

A confession: I’m a huge lover of soft, almost gooey cookies; for example, I love biting into a soft, super chocolatey, chocolate chip cookie, and letting the aromas and flavours of good quality chocolate and vanilla roll around on my tongue. How could people not love the intense flavour melding with a gooey cookie? In…

The 2013 Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap!!

Yay! I’m so excited!  I’ve just received the email confirming my participation in this year’s cookie swap!  I should receive the two names and addresses of the Canadian food bloggers to whom I’ll be sending a dozen of my most favourite cookies by this coming Monday. Now, to narrow down the choices for which cookie…

Top Ten List: Favourite Food Bloggers

When I started this list, I didn’t realize that my favourite food bloggers were virtually all women, but there you go.  (Apologies to David Liebowitz; for the record, Not A Woman). Bakerella (Angie Dudley) – This woman’s passion for cakepops and making the most adorable little edible characters using nothing but her imagination and incredibly…

TravelScapes: Christmas in Missouri

Let’s take a trip in the Way Back Machine (not to be confused with a Hot Tub Time Machine), and let me tell you about my vacation in Missouri over the Christmas holidays of 2001. I had decided to come home and go back to college full time after bumming around on walkabout for 5…