June 7, 2010 Bakeries & Restaurants I fell in love with this little store in Montreal that sells all kinds of nuts, dried fruits, and chocolate. I’m fairly obsessed with almonds, and usually have a small handful of raw almonds each day because they’re so good for you. Raw almonds are just gross enough so that you […]

May 29, 2018 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing I’m so obsessed with Harry & Meghan I don’t even know where to begin. When the news first broke that they were together, I was like, what? That girl from Suits? But with encouragement from my friend Krishna, I opened my heart to this royal romance and was so […]

Photo from Food Network Website We’re in the home stretch everyone! Only six chefs left! Shout outs to Flemingdon Park! Go Trista! DALE is back! In a DEEP V! Whoop whoop! I so have a new appreciation for Dale, even though I wasn’t a fan when watching last year. He definitely brought an intensity that’s missing this […]

While I’m in Florida, Lydia has been busy “baking” Easter treats at home. She sent me this picture, and I asked her to write a guest blog post. Here’s what she had to say: Not sure if I’m blog worthy…they are called… Mother of a 3 month old Brownies Buy 2 bite brownies Buy vanilla frosting […]

April 19, 2011 Top Chef Canada Welcome back for Episode 2 of Top Chef Canada!   We get right to this week’s Quickfire Challenge, which Thea tells us is all about Canadian Cheese from the Dairy Farmers of Canada. Dale is worried because he doesn’t cook with cheese. Excuse you Dale, have you never made yourself a grilled […]

I first made these fudgesicles all the way back in 2010! But in the spirit of Summer and Baked Sunday Mornings, I gave them another shot this week. This is a basically a frozen pudding pop, with the addition of some espresso powder. I was curious to see what would happen if I substituted the […]

January 31, 2012 Seafood   You may or may not have noticed a severe lack of seafood recipes over here on Planet Byn. Seeing as how my whole family is from the Maritimes, my seafood aversion is pretty much a genetic mystery. The only fish I eat is plain white: tilapia, halibut, grouper, mahi mahi. […]

October 13, 2011 Cookies Happy Belated Thanksgiving you guys! I had a very relaxing long weekend, and my appetite returned just in time for me to feast. I wasn’t feeling so hot when I returned from my 48 hour anxiety attack, but I just took it easy last week and I was in fine form on Sunday […]

November 23, 2013 Dinner Mushroom BOOM! That was our challenge for this week, and I knew right away what I wanted to make. Smitten Kitchen’s Mushroom Bourguignon, which is both on her site and in her cookbook. It was warm, cozy, and filling, but just not really a looker. Since I had the day off […]

November 7, 2011 Cookies     Halloween usually finds me channelling my inner kindergarten teacher, making cutesy treats and lots of black and orangethings to eat.  I made a few treats this year, and Kristine and Erin came over to hang and snack, and then I brought in the many leftovers to my co-workers (they […]

October 17, 2011 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing Behold my birthday cake!  After baking for others all year (which I love, don’t get me wrong), this is the most wonderful time of the year when I make whatever I want. It’s an excuse to make something over-the-top, or with a guilty pleasure tucked inside, and this year, […]

October 20, 2011 Gluten-Free I was planning on going all ‘Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag’ on Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbook My Father’s Daughter, but it still hasn’t happened. If you’ve never seen it, or don’t regularly watch the W Network, on the A&K show they take a cookbook and make 6-8 recipes from it, and decide if they […]

October 7, 2011 Muffins & Scones Baby Wall 2.0 is here! Lydia & Andrew’s new baby Dylan Jackson was born last Sunday afternoon, while I was stuck at the most vile hotel in history on my way back from my work trip. I had my fingers crossed for the two weeks I was away hoping that […]

September 29, 2011 Bread Here is a list of the ingredients I can’t pronounce on my whole wheat tortilla package: sodium acid pyrophosphate, potassium sorbate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium propionate, monoglycerides, sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate, fumaric acid, cellulose gum, carrageenan, maltodextrin Read the full article → September 27, 2011 Pies, Tarts & Pudding Dessert in a jar was so on […]