Nothing says back to school like a stack of homemade peanut butter cookies I’m sure there are more iconic reminders than PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES of the dreaded end of summer, but on this dreary torrential down pour of a day, … Continue reading
So you remember four years ago, Ralph and I were sitting on the veranda cooking up our next farm project when he says, “I think we should build a pond.” “A what?” “A pond. We’ve been talking about a swimming … Continue reading
During our time at the farm, I’m inspired to experiment with century old recipes. I love playing around with combinations of ingredients that farm housewives would have used at the turn of the century. Of course, I’m not using a … Continue reading
It’s rhubarb season! Every year of my baking life, I’ve tried to imagine the joy people had before the age of fruit all year long, when rhubarb was ready to turn into saliva inducing treats. After a long winter of … Continue reading
Last October, entrepreneur Judith Mackin created and organized a fund-raising event for the Saint John Regional Hospital Foundation called OH! CHAIR-ITY! She asked if I was willing to cook dinner for six guests at her home, as one of the … Continue reading
The very first cake that I ever made was for him. Mom helped me pour the mix into a tiny blue plastic bowl; part of the Easy-Bake Oven kit Santa had left. I stood on a chair to reach the … Continue reading
Blueberries lend themselves to all manner of summertime treats with crazy names: blueberry buckle, blueberry cobbler, blueberry crumble, blueberry crisp, blueberry grunt and, my new-found favourite, blueberry Betty. Like all Brown Betty’s the fruit is sweetened then layered with bread cubes … Continue reading
Raspberry Lemon Sorbet, from The River Cafe in London, England, is off the charts, both with respect to the recipe and the taste. Typically, when you’re working with lemons the instructions will advise you to not get any pith [the … Continue reading
My love language is food. What’s yours? Saturday, while I was preparing food, I thought about how much I enjoy cooking. Every part of it. The menu planning, grocery shopping, kitchen time and, best of all, eating with people I … Continue reading
Six thirty am. Every window wide open. I turn the radio off and the house fills with bird song. Fynn lazes on the hot verandah. I’ve been thrashing the last several months. It happens every few years; an unexplainable, frenetic … Continue reading
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