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Thanksgiving Dinner: Maple Pear Upside-Down Cake
Any good Thanksgiving meal needs to end in dessert, even if you don’t feel like there is any room left in your stomach! This Maple Pear Upside-Down Cake is the perfect way to end your holiday: It is it light and outrageously moist, yet so full of flavour that it will satiate even the most [...]
Plum and Walnut Crisp
Here is the recipe for the Plum and Walnut Crisp that ended our meal with my parents last week. I had planned on serving homemade ginger ice cream with the crisp, but despite my best efforts with my brand new ice cream machine, the ginger custard would just not freeze. I think I will have [...]
Lemon Ice Cream Sandwiches with Blueberry Swirl
I saw these Lemon Ice Cream Sandwiches with Blueberry Swirl on the front cover of the August issue of Gourmet magazine and fell in love with them instantly. I didn’t buy the magazine when I first saw it, but then couldn’t get them out of my head. I remember making Carlo search every book store [...]
Homemade Peach Jam
Out of all the jams that I’ve made this summer, this Peach Jam just might be my favourite. Instead of cutting the peaches up into small pieces so they would cook down into a smoother jam, I kept them quite large so the resulting jam is full of really big chunks of fresh peaches in [...]
Grilled Peaches with Manchego and Balsamic Glaze
Keeping in line with last’s week post about trying to savor the last of the summer fruit and veg, here is a savory dessert using up the last of the summer’s peaches. Grilled peaches and Manchego cheese may sound like an odd combination, but the saltiness of the Spanish sheep’s milk cheese really plays off [...]
We Be Jammin’ 2: Homemade Mixed Berry Jam
This Mixed Berry Jam is a slight variation of the Plum Jam from yesterday, and just as simple to make. You use strawberries as your base and then add a mixture of berries. I only had blueberries on hand, so I used just them and the jam was outstanding. I love putting a dollop of [...]
We Be Jammin’ 1: Homemade Plum Jam
One of my latest food obsessions is making homemade jam. Ever since I made Strawberry Jam a couple of months ago, I’ve been looking for new recipes to make. The September issue of Food & Wine magazine includes a few fast and easy jam recipes that have helped me create small batches of luscious jam. [...]
Blueberry Streusel Cake
I’m so excited: Tonight is both the finale of Top Chef Masters and the premier of Top Chef Las Vegas! I’ve got my fantasy Top Chef team picked out and I’m ready to watch some cooking! I only wish that Jay Rayner was coming back to be a judge on Top Chef LV instead of [...]
Plum Clafoutis
Carlo sometimes makes fun of me for using strange English words that he has never heard of before and which he thinks I make up. For example, he never believed that there was such a word as impetigo until Amy Winehouse got blasted for being all scabby. Another word he thinks that I made up [...]
Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp
In an attempt to try and eat better (aka lose weight), I have limited myself to baking only when we have someone coming over for dinner. Thankfully Carlo invited a friend to dinner last weekend, so I was able to take advantage of the fresh rhubarb that I had seen at the grocery store to [...]
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