I first made this pie six years ago to bring to a BBQ at my friend Libby’s house, and have been thinking about it every summer since! I finally re-made it to bring to another BBQ with my friends Krishna & Weedy, using freshly picked strawberries from Stonehaven Farms. It was both the best looking […]

I consider myself to be very against any pairing of fruit and chocolate. Orange + chocolate = repulsive. Raspberry sauce pooled underneath or drizzled across a molten chocolate cake? Nope. Chocolate covered raisins? Oh, hell no. The only exception I make to this rule is a chocolate dipped strawberry, which I do find quite tasty. […]

If I’m posting a savoury recipe in the Summer, you know it must be a good one. When the weather gets hot, I don’t actually cook; it’s more like I chop things and assemble them on a plate (this is my forever fave). However, after finding a recipe on Bon Appetit for the Spicy Fusilli […]

June started off with my quick trip to LA, and followed up by the pure joy of a Raptors Championship and lots more fun! Here’s what was going on: After walking by it every weekday for the past couple of years, I finally went to the Union Summer Market with my friend Krishna. It’s a […]

Being sick in the summer sucks and I lost a whole sunny week to the plague at the beginning of the month, but I started to feel better just in time to work on two very special birthday cakes. Here’s all the foodie fun from July: First a quick shout out to Nexus Coffee Company […]

The last time I went to LA it was 2005. Food blogs didn’t exist, and I didn’t even have a digital camera. I don’t really remember much about what Kristine and I ate on that trip, with the exception of multiple trips to Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf for Ice Blendeds. This time around, I […]

Here’s another recipe from Baked: New Frontiers in Baking that I’ve never made before! This is a pretty straightforward muffin recipe, with a couple of extra steps involved to zest/juice an orange and grind some almonds in the food processor. I ended up being really surprised by these; they’re super fresh and light for summer. […]

My life truly revolved around the Raptors playoff schedule this month, more so than any other year because they just MADE IT TO THE NBA FINALS for the first time ever (refer to my Drake on Cake pictured above)!!! Here’s what I ate between games: There was actually one event that was more important than […]

October 25, 2011 Breakfast Updated with a new picture June 29, 2015 My friend Kathleen is a pretty amazing person overall, but especially in the kitchen. She works a full-time job and still manages to make wholesome nutritious meals for her family (husband and almost 2 year old daughter) every night. On Sundays she kicks […]

October 27, 2011 Bars & Squares How do you organize the recipes you want to make? I would say I’m a bit of a hot mess in the area. I have a folder of favourites on my work computer (categories: Dinner, Treats, Breakfast, BBQ, Other Stuff), another system on my personal computer at home (categories: […]

I truly thought it would be a rhubarb-less year here on Planet Byn. Last year, without any new inspiration, I re-made a couple of my favourite recipes from the archives: Lemon Rhubarb Bundt Cake and Strawberry Rhubarb Tart with Brown Butter Crumble. So I thought I might just skip the whole thing this year, but […]

I’ve always assumed making risotto is a lengthy process, based on what I’ve seen on the Food Network.  I’ve never made it at home, because it seems kind of intimidating, and I hate wasting time and ingredients on things that don’t turn out.  Nevertheless, I know I need to work on this, so I bought a bag […]

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 […]

by byn September 30, 2013 Monthly Recaps 2 So I unintentionally took a break from blogging this month. Didn’t really mean to do it, but it was a short and busy month, and it just kind of slipped right by. I’m also working on a Top Secret recipe testing project, so most of what I […]