I love asparagus. I don’t eat it often as it’s so expensive in my region with the exception of the local harvest in late spring, which happens to be right now. So, to celebrate my most recent acquisition of these lovely spears of deliciousness, I made a simple puff pastry tart which I’m sharing with…
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Recipe Roundup: 9 Delicious Bundt Cake Recipes You Must Try Soon
So you may be wondering…what exactly *is* a Bundt cake? Is the pan used the same as a tube pan? Why is there a hole in the middle, and does it really make a difference? These are good questions, and I hope I can do them justice below. Simply put, a Bundt cake is a…
Recipe Post: Berry Lemon Coffee Cake
I came up with this recipe to use up some fresh blueberries that were going past their freshness date, but I didn’t want just another “blueberry lemon loaf” like I saw in recipes everywhere. I decided to get a bit creative and do a mash-up of a coffee cake and a lemon loaf, where instead…
Recipe Post: Orange and Grapefruit Peel Muffins
Ok, ok, I know this recipe sounds potentially…problematic (code for EEWWWWW), but I implore you to try it out first before judging. This muffin recipe is unique, I’ll grant you that, but its origin comes from one of my favourite Canadian cookbook authors, the late, great Edna Staebler, who, with several cookbooks to her name,…
Meyer Lemons: Summer’s Promise in Winter
If anyone has been reading my blog for more than a year, you will know that I go positively loony when Meyer lemons become available in the stores again. These little jewel-like drops of citrus sunshine remind me every year that, as crappy a winter as we may be having in this part of the…
Recipe Post: Lemon Cranberry Scones!
Last week I was in quite the mood to bake, and I had a long-outstanding request by our friend, Miss Kitty, to make scones. So, make scones we did! As we were dog-sitting The Naughty One that day, we had a tiny, but clean, quiet, and totally-ours kitchen to work in. It was quite the…
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