One of the by-products of my butter making experiment was buttermilk.  Buttermilk is great.  I use it pancakes all the time.  Problem is I can usually only find it in 1L formats.  Half the time I say screw it and just make “buttermilk” by adding either lemon juice or vinegar to regular milk.  It works [...]

Butter tarts are one of those foods that are distinctly Canadian.  Whenever I mention them to my American friends they have never heard of them (kind of like with Poutine).  The easiest way for me to describe them are kind of like individual pecan pies without the pecans (usually) and runnier.  But that doesn’t even [...]

The other day  I was REALLY craving butter tarts but didn’t want to go out and buy some.  That’s when I got the brilliant idea of MAKING them.  Now since butter tarts a Canadian specialty it’s not that easy to find recipes for them.  Well not enough recipes with feedback to be able to discern [...]

Confession: I suck at making cookies.
I mean they TASTE good but they are never the chewy discs of goodness that I buy from my fave bakeries.  AND they always turn out ugly.  Actually, make that FUGLY.  But alas they taste ok so I continue with the same old, same old.
While I was in NYC my [...]

This week’s Barefoot Bloggers pick comes courtesy of Peggy at Pantry Revisited. I’m a fan of croissants and I love bread pudding so this seemed like a great pick.
This is a quick and easy recipe.  Some might see this as dessert, but for me it just screamed breakfast!  I mean, it’s kind of like [...]

Yes, more experimenting with vegan, gluten-free, refined sugar free baking courtesy of the Babycakes NYC cookbook. I’ve made a few things from here that have been blogged about here, here, and here with pretty good success. If my often carnivorous/dairy loving heart can be transformed than this stuff must be good.
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I don’t think you guys are ready for this one.  I didn’t realize I wasn’t ready until I tasted it.  I had a frozen pie crust in my freezer that had been taking up space for weeks.  I finally decided to get my act together and figure out what to fill the pie crust with. [...]

So I’ve blogged about the bakery Babycakes NYC a few times like here and here. I love the bakery and was thrilled when the cookbook came out.  I don’t need vegan or gluten-free treats but I like the idea of experimenting with alternative forms of baking.  I recently bought a mini-muffin tin in order [...]

I ended up with an abundance of apples the other day and had no clue what to do with them.  I wasn’t really in a pie kind of mood so I scratched that.  I was thinking muffins might be good but seemed a little pedestrian.  I came across this recipe for an apple upside-down cake [...]

With half a box of dates left from a recent food delivery I’d been looking for ways to use them up.  I decided to check out the recipe section of Cooking Light magazine thinking I’d be able to find an easy and healthy way to use up my dates.  I stumbled upon this recipe for [...]