I read recently about organizations such as Not Far From the Tree which harvests fruit from urban trees that would otherwise go to waste. My coworker happens to have a pear tree growing on his property that is producing a lot of fruit, and he picked me a small box. The russet...
On a trip to Montreal this summer, I made a point of stopping by Chocolat-Chocolat, a store which I have purchased from online many times. Their retail building is a very cute house with a massive warehouse in the back. In the front is a well-stocked library of books and magaz...
A baking blogging group was all over this recipe earlier this year, but I found it via a Google Books link while searching for an apple cheesecake. I don’t own this baking book, but I really love Greenspan’s other books (Baking with Julia, the two Pierre Herme ones) so I had h...
A recent apple picking trip left me with over 30 pounds of red apples (either Empire or Macoun, we didn’t keep the bags separated!). I’ve been making a lot of apple pies, both the Cook’s Illustrated deep dish one and the apple-cranberry one. I borrowed one of those apple peele...
For a fall dessert potluck at work, I wanted to make something a little showy that would feature a fall fruit. On Monday night, I took twelve Golden Delicious apples (5½ lbs), peeled and quartered them. I was worried that some of the chunks were too big, so I cut the larger ap...
An experiment using Splenda Brown Sugar Blend last week didn’t turn out so well. Using my favourite recipe, I replaced the sugar with half the volume of the Splenda blend. The critical error was in using underripe bananas. I tried really hard to ripen them but in the end, the ...