It’s kind of interesting how this pandemic has changed my cooking strategy. I’m normally a meticulous meal planner (not meal prepper – there’s a difference) as a way to stay organized and reduce my food waste. I would plan out a week’s worth of eats based on what I’m craving, what’s in season and how […]

This month kicked off with a super fun and cute baking project! I made the treats for my friend Kristine’s niece’s 1st Birthday party. Her sister requested four dozen vanilla cupcakes (I used the recipe from Joy the Baker’s first cookbook) with vanilla icing (I used My Favourite Buttercream) and I ordered the Flamingo sprinkle […]

How have I owned the first Baked Cookbook for over 10 years without ever making this recipe? S’mores are one of my favourite things on earth, so I’m not quite sure how this oversight occurred. Well, maybe two small reasons: 1) there’s no photo of these in the book 2) it calls for peanuts, which […]

For the past 5 or 6 years, my friend Danielle has been making me the cutest Christmas gift: a calendar with pictures of all the treats I made throughout the year. It makes me so happy, and now that I have a cubicle again, it has a prominent spot on my wall. When I turned […]

I wrote the other day about how much I loved the Netflix movie To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, and this summer I also read the book, plus it’s two sequels. You don’t really see it too much in the movie, but in the books, a huge part of Lara Jean’s life is that […]

A few years ago, I was invited to a YEASTER party, and had such a good time that I knew one day I would steal this idea for a celebration of my own! I was sort of boycotting all Easter gatherings this year due to a stressful time in my work life, so the timing was […]

I finally had a minute to get back into Baked Sunday Mornings this weekend, and what a perfect recipe to find on the schedule! I’ve made these Brewer’s Blondies before, and they are the epitome of Blondie perfection to me. They’re chewy, buttery and rich with perfect edges. The “Brewer’s” component comes into play because […]

Can you believe it? I’m kind of in shock that I’ve been writing this blog for TEN years! As I wrote last year, blogs are basically dead at this point, but I’m not ready to move on from mine just yet! It still brings me so much joy to document my favourite recipes here and […]

October is always a packed month for me, with Thanksgiving, my birthday and Halloween, plus this month I had trips to NYC & Vancouver in the mix as well, so there was a lot going on. Besides my favourite baking project of the year, I didn’t get up to that much while I was in […]

by byn May 31, 2021 Monthly Recaps 0 It was a pretty quiet month here, but I did have a very important cake to work on, and an extra special delivery to make. Here’s more: I think I mentioned in another monthly recap that I’m making a wedding cake this August! It was the bride-to-be’s […]

November on Planet Byn [2024] by byn November 30, 2024 Monthly Recaps 0 November is usually a chill month for me before the craziness of the holidays, but there was so much going on this month and lots of good eats! Here’s what was happening: Other non-foodie things I was obsessed with this month: Flashback!… […]

September 27, 2019 Pies, Tarts & Pudding I wrote last week about how I wasn’t finding Ontario peaches up to their normal juicy, delicious standards this summer, but I still had one more thing I wanted to make with them. This galette was the perfect way to coax out their sweetness, mixing them with honey […]

August 10, 2015 Salads For a long time I have had a very real, very negative reaction to strawberries and goat cheese in salad. This stems, no doubt, from my aversion to Milestone’s, which I have explained at length in the past. They had* a salad with this combination on the menu in the early-mid […]

March 22, 2013 Beef & Pork Our Gastropost Mission a couple of weeks ago was all about NOODLES, and the Mission Inspiration was Asian noodles in particular. This is something I feel is best left to the pros. Yes, I have attempted to make Pad Thai at home many years ago. No, it did not […]