If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen me last week putting out a plea for interesting muffin ideas. I was in one of those odd moods, where I wanted to make something but I couldn’t figure out what. I knew I wanted muffins, but that’s pretty standard for me, I love my [...]

I used to say that there were only two foods I didn’t like – beets and ginger. But the ginger part of that statement came with qualifications. I’ve always like sweet gingery things, like ginger ale and gingersnaps. I just didn’t like chunks of ginger in my food. And candied ginger was utterly abhorrent to [...]

At this time of year, you see a lot of zucchini recipes. People with gardens are over-run with zucchini and eager to use them up. They start putting zucchini in everything from soup to cake in a desperate attempt to keep up the the over-productive plants, and many gardeners come to resent the lowly squash. [...]

I am fairly certain that cinnamon may be the spice equivalent of love. Think about it. When a room smells of warm cinnamon, you feel cozy and content. It evokes a sense of well-being. And eating a homemade cinnamon roll, with all its soft dough and sweet frosting, is like receiving a comforting hug from [...]

I like to think of myself as a fair and just person, one who does not play favourites. Alas, when it comes to berries, this is not the case. I love all berries, but I do not love all berries equally. Raspberries are far and away my favourite and I will go to great lengths [...]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: I love peanut butter. Oh wait, that’s right. You have heard this one before…about a gazillion times. As it turns out, I also love my little donut pan. It was an impulse purchase, but one that has turned out to be tremendously useful for such a specialized [...]

I am a dyed-in-the-wool, unrepentant coffee drinker who comes from a long line of dyed-in-the-wool, unrepentant coffee drinkers. I am one of those people who isn’t fully human until she’s had a cup of coffee in the morning. Even my children, as young as they are, know to stay out of my way until I’ve [...]

Let me tell you about the week I had last week. It started off with a double ear infection for my little one. She’s a fussy baby at the best of times, so you can imagine how this made her so much more fun to be around. Then my school age son brought home a [...]

My whole family has a serious addiction to peanut butter. We can easily go through the 2-pack of large jars from our local wholesale club in under a month. It’s a little horrifying, actually, to think you just bought a whole wackload of peanut butter and then to discover that you are down to the [...]