Jun 6, 2013 | chicken & poultry, in the kitchen, main courses, pasta & noodles, products, recipes
Paul and I make our own tomato sauce all the time – in fact, we’ve never purchased tomato sauce before and we have bought pesto sauce, but mainly because fresh basil is expensive and for some reason, basil is the only plant that refuses to grow in our...
May 31, 2013 | chocolate, cupcakes & muffins, desserts & sweets, in the kitchen, new posts - in the kitchen, recipes
Both my brother-in-law, Dave, and my sister-in-law, Alex, answered with an emphatic “chocolate” when I asked them what flavour they wanted their birthday cupcakes to be. After a little more thought, Alex added that she wouldn’t mind Nutella cupcakes...
May 24, 2013 | chocolate, cupcakes & muffins, desserts & sweets, in the kitchen, new posts - in the kitchen, popular, recipes
I never gave my father-in-law a chance to choose his birthday cupcake flavour – it was always going to be Crown Royal cupcakes. You see, many years ago, when Paul and I were still dating, I gave a bottle of Crown Royal Canadian whisky to his dad for Christmas...
May 13, 2013 | in the kitchen, personal
Earlier this year, I had the crazy idea to bake cupcakes for each of my close family members on their birthday. But, not just any cupcakes – these were going to be special birthday cupcakes based on a flavour that was either requested by them or chosen by me...
Apr 24, 2013 | in the kitchen
If you haven’t been able to tell from my blog, Twitter and Instagram feeds – I love macarons. A lot. Paul likes them well enough, but I ADORE them. I even managed to talk my sister, Suzie, into giving macarons out as her wedding favours just so I could eat...
Apr 17, 2013 | desserts & sweets, frozen treats, in the kitchen, recipes
One of our favourite discoveries when we travelled to Rome for the first time last year was the Tazza d’Oro, a small coffee shop that sits very close to the Pantheon. Being a famed coffee shop in Rome is no small feat and there were definitely some wonderful coffees...
