The summer mango season is always a time when we try to purchase a case or two of mangos. We eat them fresh for a snack, chopped into a fruit salad or salsa, or blended into a lassi or smoothie. One of our favourites is the Ataulfo variety, which has a small pit, and very smoo...
You would be surprised how often I end up with a surplus of a single ingredient. This may happen due to shopping list duplication between Flick and I, or a Costco-triggered impulse buy. Our neighbours went on vacation and gifted us with the perishable contents of their fridge....
I’ve wanted to make my own classic, summer treat for a while now, that is, an ice cream sandwich. A specimen I tried from an Ontario dairy while cottaging recently wasn’t impressive: the chocolate chip cookies were too hard to bite into without the interior oozing out every ti...
We found ourselves with about 2.5kg of yogurt recently, so I set out to use some of it up in a muffin. I followed this recipe closely, but made one change: to ensure tenderness, I swapped about a cup of the AP flour with cake flour. The batter completely filled the cups of a l...
A shortcake is really just a cream biscuit. More historical information can be found in this Wikipedia article, which also notes that June 14th is Strawberry Shortcake Day!Anyone can make this recipe, it’s easy enough to do on a weeknight after dinner. I started by cutting and...
Strawberry season is in full swing in Ontario, and we took advantage by purchasing a whole flat at the Leslieville Farmers’ Market this past weekend. After gorging on several quarts, plain and with whipped cream, it was time to use them in a few dessert applications.For Canada...