Kale is one of the healthiest vegetables you can eat. It is very versatile and can be cooked in many different ways. I love it in soup, in Chinese stir fry, baked in the oven, added to stews, smoothies and my favorite as chips. I was talking to my neighbor one day and he told…
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Almond Cupcakes All Jammed Up
I love this simple vanilla almond cupcake. Its a great moist cupcake that you can add different icing flavours to make it unique. I decided to make the icing with some jam I recently made to make it a jam cream cheese frosting. Prep the ingredients. Remember to take out the eggs, butter and shift…
Carrot Coconut Cupcakes and White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing
Carrot cake is best when you serve it with cream cheese frosting. It is even better when you serve it with white chocolate cream cheese icing! This recipe comes from another favourite cookbook: Rebar Modern Food Cookbook. This is no ordinary carrot cake. There are many additional ingredients found in this recipe. A lot of…
Snickerdoodles
Snickerdoodles are fun cookies to make and to eat. They are a type of drop cookie that is rolled in cinnamon and sugar. I tried this for the first time and now its one of my favourites. First mix the sugar and butter. When the butter and sugar mixture has turned a nice golden colour,…
Kombucha Experiment #3 Update
Its has been a couple months now since I have started making Kombucha. I have experimented with the length of time (2 weeks vs 3 weeks) and composition of the tea. I tried various ratios of green tea and black tea, strength of tea (by adding more tea bags, longer steeping times), amount of sugar…
Mixed Berry Apple Jam!! Its jammed full of goodness.
Making jam is something I became addicted to. I love how each jam recipe turns out different and how many different ways I can use jam. I’ve used homemade jams on toast, baking and as gifts but there are so many other ways to use it as well. The nice thing with homemade jam is…
Cream Puffs: fill them, freeze them, eat them. A wonderful treat to beat the heat.
Cream puffs are a delicious treat for any time. They make great desserts for parties. The best part is that you can make a bunch of them and then freeze them just like profiteroles! You willl be able to have a frozen treat any time you like. Be creative with the filling. You can fill…
Coconut Rum Cupcakes
This is a must have for coconut lovers!! Coconut rum brings another level to the coconut flavour. Choose your favourite coconut rum and bake away! Begin by beating softened butter and slowly adding brown sugar. You want to combine the brown sugar until it becomes a light brown and the majority of the sugar has…
Tiramisu + Cheesecake = Heaven
Ever wanted to have cheesecake and Tiramisu together? Well now you can! This all started when I was going to make a Tiramisu but I was unaware of how many people were showing up to the party. Definitely one recipe of Tiramisu was not going to be enough. I looked and looked online for a…
Rock that Almond Roca!!
Warning!!! After reading this post, you may not want to eat Almond Roca ever again (ok well you may not want to eat the whole batch of Almond Roca). Almond Roca basically consists of sugar and butter with a little bit of almond and chocolate. Almond Roca can be a bit tricky to do on…
EAT it NOW or EAT it LATER 