Honey-Baked Grapefruit
My legs are aching this Monday morning and my feet are sore. I woke early Sunday, left Mikey and my husband sleeping in their beds, caught the train downtown and spent the better part of the morning wandering between highrises…
Broccoli, Mushroom and Shallot Quiche
Although the cold and slightly snowy weather outside my window may sometimes fool me into thinking otherwise, I am more than done with heavy winter foods and ready for the bright fresh flavours of spring. As it is still cold…
Scones
Sometimes the weekend just runs away from me. When we’re alternating between running errands and having fun, the time seems to quickly disappear. After running errands, we spent Sunday afternoon cooking with a friend: a delicious quiche, and blueberry scones…
Olivia’s Rolled Sugar Cookies
I’m no baker, but I can still appreciate the baking of others! One my my favourite things to do around Christmas is to bake and decorate Sugar Cookies with Mikey. He, of course, loves to cut out the cookies and…
The Process
It seems a while ago now, but the weekend before Halloween we placed old newspaper down on the kitchen floor and set about gutting our Halloween pumpkin. Still in his pajamas, but covered by an apron, Mikey began pulling out…
Homemade Basil Pesto
This year I had grand plans of growing my own basil on the kitchen window ledge, like like I did last year. Then, once it had grown too big for the kitchen, I was going to cut off the leaves…
Roasted Cherry Tomato Soup
My friend and I like to cook in the evening when we get together, usually after some sort of fun outing earlier in the day. Last weekend we visited a few of the Chicago theatres, so I could photograph them…
Chocolate Chip Cookies
When the rain is pouring down outside, splattering onto the patio and running tiny rivers along the glass of each window, there’s not much to be done other than to stay inside where it’s dry and bake chocolate chip cookies….
Warm Potato Salad with Bacon
I’d never had purple potatoes before until recently, and I feel just a little like I’m late to the party and that someone has been keeping this incredible secret from me all this time. Not only are they such a…
Oven Roasted Broccoli with Garlic, Lemon & Parmesan
I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve never really been the sort of person who would willingly eat broccoli; I still don’t eat it very much although I think my taste buds have grown enough to enjoy it in…
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