With the last of the Meyer lemons we bought for our brunch a few weeks ago, I happened to come across a blog post that featured this delicious member of the citrus family. I asked Dr. S to pick up a tub of ricotta and whipped up (literally) this pudding cake as a weeknight des...
To replenish our muffin supply, I was looking around for a recipe that would use up a lot of yogurt and found this one online. Putting the dry ingredients in a food processor worked out well for me, because my brown sugar was lumpy and hard. Blitzing it for a minute pulverized...
I can’t resist “weird” ingredients in food, so an old-fashioned wartime cake that used mayonnaise was begging to be made. Also, we had a leftover jar of mayo from making potato salad the weekend before, and we rarely use mayo. The cake requires two bowls, no electric mixer, a...
I made a batch of chocolates from Peter Greweling’s Chocolates and Confections to bring for Passover dinners. The name of these chocolates has a two-fold meaning (in my interpretation anyway): Mount Rainier is a mountain which these resemble, and Rainier is a type of cherry.De...
nodrog requested a cake for yyzgirl’s birthday party and gave me some parameters to work within: white chocolate, banana, praline and caramel. I found a charlotte recipe that sounded good and adapted it to incorporate to use white chocolate instead of dark. These types of dess...
There’s always some flavour-boosting step to CI recipes and for these muffins, making blueberry jam is it. However, it’s not as complicated as it might sound, just simmering berries with a bit sugar until it’s reduced. There are no good fresh local berries right now, so I used...