I received a text message from The Hubster early this afternoon, around lunch hour. He mentioned he was chatting with his workmates (both women), and the subject of waffles came around…don’t ask me how. Well, to the point, he ended up having a powerful hankerin’ for waffles, and asked if we could have them for…
Category: Baking
New Baking Ingredients! Happy dayz for me!
Look what the Santa-fairy brought me this week! While I’ve used the disposable piping bags and the vanilla bean paste before, I’ve never had quite so much at one time until now. Im really looking forward to getting into those fruit pastes and seeing what awesome things I can make with them! They’re no Boiron…
Collection: Black Friday!
…so another Black Friday has come and gone. Unless you have been living under a rock for the last several years, you will know that the term “Black Friday” does not mean this, …but instead identifies the day after American Thanksgiving; a concentrated day of store (and now online) deep discounts on a myriad of…
Recipe and Tutorial: Banana Pumpkin Bread of AWESOMESAUCE!
Wow, two banana posts in a row. I must be on some kind of banana kick. Don’t worry, I have plenty of other yummy fewdz to talk about; it was just the roll of the dice this week. In any case, earlier this month, my friend, Erynith, decided to stay at our place for a…
Top Ten List: Introduction to Star Anise (5 of 10)
This is a little bit of an odd Top Ten list, but I thought I’d take you through my baking cupboard (yes, I have an entire cupboard dedicated solely to baking supplies…um, and another cupboard…and a 4-tier rolling rack…but I digress). Since a Top Ten list would make this blog post too long, I’m splitting…
Meyer Lemons!!! Yaaaaay!!!!!
I found Meyer Lemons totally at random this weekend, in the Ottawa region of all places! I am NOT KIDDING when I confess that my eyes got wide as I snatched the single remaining bag of Meyer Lemons off the display table, pressed them to my heart as I squeaked (yes, *squeaked*), and…
BirdHouse Diaries 