K Lee

To Apple Jam or To Apple Butter?

I got a slight addiction to jamming. I love the experimentation, the flavours and the canning process. As I was googling recipes to try I discovered something called Apple Butter. What is apple butter?? Its apples cooked so long that it becomes the consistency of butter. This recipe is great when you have lots of…

Celebrate Pi Day with Fake Apple Pie

Happy Belated Pi Day!! March 14 to some is Pi day (3/14 or 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 86280 34825 34211 70679…). Pi is an irrational number or a number that has digits that never repeat. To celebrate Pi day we eat pie. Of course…

What to do I do with leftover buttermilk??? Make Buttermilk Scones!!!

What do you do with leftover buttermilk??? Sometimes you’re left with too much buttermilk when you bake. If you don’t have a use for it you can always freeze it and use it later. I got into the habit of making things for breakfast. I’ve made buns for breakfast (bear buns from a previous post)…

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red velvet cake has become a very popular cake. Red velvet is a basic buttermilk cake with red food colouring. No one knows the exact origins of the cake and some believe cocoa in the cake turns a reddish colour when mixed with vinegar. I have not proven this to be true but I believe…

Chinese New Year

Sticky Cakes for Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year was always a time to get together and eat delicious foods. Usually we will have dumplings, Taro cake, and Sticky cake (Nian Gao). My family would always get together to have a big feast. There are many traditions around Chinese New Year and one of them…

Eat like a Hobbit

Have you ever wondered…. “If I was a hobbit what would I eat??” Of course after watching The Hobbit in theatres who wouldn’t. The table was filled with lots of harvested vegetables, breads, meats and fish. I decided this was going to be the theme of our next dinner!! After doing some research online,…

Bear buns… (not bare bums)

I’ve always been fascinated with baking and one of the things I love to bake is bread. Bread is so versatile. It can sweet or savoury, filled with stuff or just by itself. The bread recipe I decided to make was from the Company’s Coming Bread cookbook. I chose ‘soft buns’ from this…