For a tenure party Dr. S’ friend was celebrating, I decided to make the caramel ganache chocolates from Peter Greweling’s Chocolates and Confections:After reading about homemade confectionary frames, I’ve been hunting around to make my own. My coworker’s brother is a machinist...
Instead of a berry fool I had intended to make, I took the raspberries I bought and made all three puddings from the recipes in this cookbook. One important note about these recipes is that they don’t yield the same volume, so if you’re trying to make a layered pudding like I ...
Just south of Bracebridge last Friday, we stopped by a roadside stand to buy some fresh wild blueberries. The vendor said they were from Sudbury, and I walked away with a 1.5L basket which cost $22. That’s a steep price for berries but the wild ones pack so much more flavour (...
For the Toronto Chowhound picnic, I decided to make a fresh cherry cobbler seeing as there is an abundance of the fruit at local markets. I bought a basket at St. Lawrence Market for $15 and this yielded exactly 4 pounds. It took about a half hour to manually pit all the cherr...
I’ve been up at a cottage with Dr. S and have been baking (as usual) using equipment and ingredients that we brought up. I made some old favourites including blueberry scones, a mixed fruit pie using the CI vodka crust, chocolate-chili ice cream and strawberry pancakes. We’re ...