Fall in Ontario is all about the apples. Every greengrocer has baskets and bushels on display with every variety you can imagine, and perhaps a few you haven’t imagined yet. While the season is still in full swing, I try to eat as many as I possibly can. Red, green, yellow, speckled, striped, and even a pale matte golden-brown. I…
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Every year, as summer winds down and gives way to fall, I obsessively start to pickle and preserve all of the things. The growing stack of mason jars in my pantry is as much as sign of the changing seasons as the long shadows in the buttery gold late-afternoon sunshine and the droning of the cicadas in the trees. Carrot…
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One of the things I love most about my backyard is the overgrown patch of raspberry canes that just gets bigger and bigger each year. This summer, it’s gotten so big that it’s completely taken over the space beside the back gate, leaving me literally knee-deep in juicy red berries once raspberry season rolled around. It meant that for a…
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When it comes to garlic, I’m firmly of the opinion that more is better. Where a recipe tells me to add one clove, I add three. If it says three cloves, I throw caution to the wind and add a whole head. The only recipe where I’ve actually followed the recommended amount of garlic is the infamous Chicken with 40…
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When I was growing up, summer in the city meant an ice cream truck parked right beside the house most evenings and weekends, playing its merry tune all day long. That’s the price you pay for living across the street from one of the biggest parks in the neighbourhood. It was both a blessing and a curse. On the one…
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One of my favourite ways to spend a Saturday morning in the summertime is a trip to the farmer’s market. I like to pop down as soon as the market opens to pick up a few ingredients for the weekend, and maybe a few fresh-baked treats to take home for breakfast. My local market at Withrow Park may not be…
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This is the post I was afraid to write. The post I spent more than a year preparing in my head, over and over again, but never actually wrote down until now. Because part of me believed that I could hold off the inevitable by choosing not to put the words out there into the world, even in draft form….
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It’s hard to believe it, but Easter is just around the corner. For most people, that usually means eating stupendous quantities of chocolate, but I get waaaay more excited for all of the festive breads, and most especially the hot cross buns. Most bakeries carry traditional hot cross buns this time of year, but I much prefer to make my…
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Hi friends! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I promise that I’m going to make it worth the wait, though. For one, because there’s a pretty amazing banana bread recipe coming your way today. And two, as you’ve probably noticed, the site got a little makeover earlier this week with a sleek new design. But the most important reason of…
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