It’s Cookie Swappin’ Time Again!

So excited! I just received the mailing addresses for the three Canadian food bloggers who will be getting cookies from me for the 2014 Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap!!! I’m pretty sure which new cookie recipe I’m going to be making, though I’m not allowed to mention it yet until the cookies are baked off, packaged,…

Recipe Post Update! Fresh Cherry Pie Filling

Just wanted to upload some pics of this delicious fresh cherry filling I wrote about in a previous post. This stuff is totally rad, or cool, or spazz-tastic or whatever the kids are saying these days…lol… This recipe came together perfectly the first time, which is always a good thing, especially when your ingredients are…

Recipe Post! Fresh Cherry Pie Filling

One of my absolute favourite times of the year is harvest season for fresh Ontario Cherries! Ranier cherries are delicious, and so are most other US-bred cherries, but there’s just something to be said for those sweet, deep-purple fleshed Ontario sweet cherries that makes my tastebuds weep with joy! …too florid? My apologies. I just…

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…

Contests: It’s That Time Again!

It’s hard for me to believe it’s been a whole year since the last/first time I participated in this, but it’s time again for the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap, hosted by The Little Kitchen and Love and Olive Oil, two fantastic food blogs hosted by some amazing people! Last year, I participated in this…

I am the ditziest bride-to-be ever.

I have a lot to live up to.  My younger (baby) sister…she hates it when I call her that…got married to the love of her life last February. I was part of the bridal party. This girl is SO ORGANIZED it’s actually a little scary; pretty much everything went off without a hitch, even though…