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January 18, 2021 Chicken & Turkey I unabashedly love Mexican chain restaurants. Give me a a bottomless basket of tortilla chips and salsa, and then a flaming cast iron skillet of chicken fajitas and I am the happiest camper. Lone Star has been my go to for so many years; at my first job after […]

July 21, 2021 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing For the past couple of years I’ve been saying the same thing: I’ve made every rhubarb recipe on the internet and there’s nothing new to try. I thought the exact same thing this Spring, and when my friend Erin brought me rhubarb from her garden, I made two […]

April 5, 2020 Baked Sunday Mornings [Note: I made this cake/wrote this post back in February, pre-quarantine times] Our Baked Sunday Mornings assignment for this week was a Flourless Chocolate Cake. Now, I’m pro-flour and pro-gluten, so I don’t have much need for this in my life, but I was still excited to make it […]

I spent the first half of this month preparing for Thanksgiving and the rest of the month celebrating my birthday! There were lots of good eats and fun things happening this month, so here we go: I tried to go to the Luke’s Diner pop-up that Netflix put on so I could grab a coffee but […]

This month ended with a double vaxx and you can see how I feel about that as pictured above! Ready to have a fun summer, see my friends IRL and actually be able to eat treats together instead of dropping them on doorsteps! Here’s what led up to my second shot: My friend Erin came […]

First of all, I followed Descendant Pizza on Instagram back in July and because I was their 6,000th follower, they gave me a free pizza! Tasty G and I ventured over on a rainy Friday afternoon and tried two pizzas: Classic Pepperoni and Truff-ghi, which has garlic mushrooms, double-smoked bacon and white truffle sauce. Their pizza is […]

January 18, 2021 Chicken & Turkey I unabashedly love Mexican chain restaurants. Give me a a bottomless basket of tortilla chips and salsa, and then a flaming cast iron skillet of chicken fajitas and I am the happiest camper. Lone Star has been my go to for so many years; at my first job after […]

October is my favourite month of the year! Thanksgiving, my birthday, Halloween, cool weather,  pretty leaves, delicious apples, scarves, what more could you need? This monthly recap will be pretty short because I was back on my blogging game, so you’ve already read about what I cooked and baked at home. I had a few […]

May 19, 2019 Baked Sunday Mornings Even though I’ve had Baked: New Frontiers in Baking for about 10 years, I’ve never even thought about making these Honeycomb Bars. Something about all those almonds and dried cherries just never appealed to me. But that’s the fun of Baked Sunday Mornings! Not only making things you’ve been […]

October 31, 2012 Appetizers Yesterday I saw a Christmas commercial for Pot of Gold. Attention Hershey Canada: Please let us all enjoy our Halloween candy in peace before you bombard us with holiday propaganda. And Pot of Gold is so gross you guys! At least it could have been a commercial for the Festive Special […]

I personally love September, and the whole ‘back to school’ of it all. Routines are re-established, cooking dinner starts happening again, and boots and scarves come out of hibernation. Unless you live in Southern Ontario, in which case it was hotter than the actual summer months around here. Here’s what happened in my foodie world […]

I kept myself busy with baking and canning projects in September which was a nice distraction from everything else going on in this dumpster fire of world right now. Here’s the scoop: My favourite twins turned 1 this month! While COVID robbed me of the joy of attending their birthday party, I was still there in […]

October is usually my favourite month of the year with all the Fall vibes, my favourite holiday (Thanksgiving), and my birthday. This year, it was just a bit weird, but I tried to make the best of everything. I’ve already written about what I made for our mini Thanksgiving dinner and my birthday cake, but […]

March 25, 2020 Travel So the world has totally turned upside down since the last time I wrote. This blog will continue to be my happy place as we navigate through these crazy times, so I don’t want to dwell on anything negative here, except to mention the following. Danielle and I had this trip […]