Good thing, where have you gone?!

I'm so sorry it's been so long since my last post, but I have a very good excuse: I had a baby! Our adorable little Lionel was born a whole 15 days late, on a picturesque snowstorm day at the end of January AND as you can imagine life's been a bit of a whirlwind since then, and we're...

The King of Condiments: Dethroned!

Last year I was a preserving MACHINE. This year I'm nearly 7 months pregnant so that does take the wind out of my sails a bit... However, one recipe that I concocted last year with great success and that I will certainly be making again this year is Fruit Ketchup. It's somewhat of...

And now I'm back with Arrainak!

Okay so summer may have seemed to have speed by and days may be getting shorter... Fall MAY creeping up upon us but I think there's still time for me to share with you one of my favourite BBQ recipes, one that converts quite happily into a baked autumn-hearty meal.  One of...

When life give you lemons...

WOW it's HOT out. After a bit of a brief blogging hiatus I'm back in action and and thankfully SO IS SUMMER! Warm weather is in full swing and sunny skies are upon us and so is BBQ season! So while I'm busy preparing some great summer recipes to share with you here's an easy...

Itadakimasu: Okonomiyaki for me and you!

Ever since the catastrophic events in Japan last week, both the country itself and the welfare of the kind-hearted Japanese people has been weighing quite heavily on my mind... I sincerely hope that things over there will soon take a turn for the better and that the cleanup, reconstruction...

Happy New Year! Bonne Année!

The holiday madness is finally winding down and life is quickly getting back to the normal daily routine. It was a very busy December for me because along with my normal pre-Christmas baking routine of cookies, granola and caramel popcorn I was busily hand-making gifts for people this...

It all comes out in the squash

Oh NO, here we are – it's nearly winter.  It's that time of year where the weather's getting colder and we're all slowing down a bit and becoming more sedentary (at least I am – BUT I'm trying to change that)... So maybe you're craving comfort foods, and eating a bit more,...

There's more than one way to skin a... banana.

I've been closing in on the tail end of a cold and find myself craving still more comfort food (they DO to say feed a cold you know...). So when I stumbled across a sad brown banana going to waste in the fruit bowl, as well as a couple frozen ones in the freezer AND a tub of yogurt about...