HAPPY THANKSGIVING! This weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving. It’s a time for family, food, crunchy orange leaves and pumpkin patches, and of course, the most integral part of the Thanksgiving meal (for me anyway); pumpkin pie. I love pumpkins. I love everything about them, the taste of them, their seeds, their beautiful orange colour, their curly […]
Tag: brown rice
Rice pudding
Being from Canada, rice pudding is not something that I grew up with, or was even really familiar with as a child. In Canada we eat cake and doughnuts and pie and cinnamon buns and cookies. “Pudding” is something that you get in your packed lunch at school, it’s chocolate flavoured (don’t even mention the […]
Apricot frangipane tart
This week I decided to set myself a bit of a challenge. So far my magnificent baking adventures have focused primarily on cake with the odd foray into cookies and pastry in the form of galette. I love making pastry, and have a few healthy variations that I use quite regularly, mostly in the form […]
Veggie fried rice
I’ve been thinking about delivery food. There was a time, not so long ago, where not a week would go by with out my ordering food for delivery. I loved it. There’s something inherently satisfying about eating delivery out of it’s tin foil box in front of a good movie, obviously followed by popcorn and […]