Adventures of a Home Cook
Berry season is sadly at its end. Strawberry picking is over. I canned my customary batch of raspberry jam. Soon berries will make way to stone fruit in the delicious seasonal food cycle. I blinked and Spring turned to Summer. I am relieved that Ontario …
My grandparents have a tiny cottage on Lake Erie. As a child I spent countless afternoons escaping the heat of the city, feeling the cool breeze coming in off the bluff, staring out at the water; endless blue. My sister and I would spend hours …
My mother’s family is known for their love of a somewhat unusual bundt cake we refer to as “Lemonade Cake”. I am not sure the origin, but I have made it every year for Mother’s Day, my mother’s birthday, and my grandmother’s birthday. It involved …
I have somehow surfaced after the whirlwind which was Easter Weekend, deeply in need of a holiday from our holiday, despite having four days off. Somehow the terms “holiday” and “vacation” have taken on synonymous connotations when they are anything but. A vacation is where …
This past weekend marked my daughter’s (gasp) 4th birthday. What does every little kid want for their birthday? A cake filled with sprinkles. Dots of funfetti colours throughout the cake, topped with icing and more sprinkles really screams “kid birthday”! And while it is filled …
I adore cheesecake. I find myself often craving a luxurious creamy slice. I prefer a New York style of cheesecake, which has a little more tang (from sour cream). And while chocolate, marbled, Baileys, and the other flavours of the rainbow are delicious, I prefer …
Question: what to do with all of the applies I just picked? Answer: Apple pie of course. Question: What if I have already made several apple pies and I still have apples left over because I insist on picking bushels of apples every year and …
I have spent the majority of my life believing that carrot cake is a highly overrated quote-on-quote dessert. This is probably due to the fact that it is usually store-bought and makes an appearance at the most boring life events- bridal showers, baby showers…[Why do …
Every year for my husband’s birthday I have cooked him a special birthday dinner that always includes chocolate birthday cake. When we started dating eleven years ago (wow that makes me feel old!), his cake came from a Duncan Hines box and looked like a …