I’m calling these zucchini spelt fritters and there’s nothing you can do about it!! (She cackles in fiendish etymological glee). Shetland has it’s own dialect. It’s mostly a mix of Scots, English, and an old Norse language called Norn. When we’re in Canada Buddy uses a toned down version of his normal accent in the […]
Tag: whole grain
Rye, rice and black sesame crackers
I’ve been hearing a lot lately about black sesame seeds. They seem to be cropping up in baking and even ice cream the nation over. I must admit I was completely ignorant of black sesame before sometime around a year ago when I heard about them on a TV show. I was instantly interested so […]
Artichoke sun-dried tomato galette
I once visited France. It was beautiful. In Canada one of our two official languages is French and I attended French immersion school wherein, starting in Kindergarten, you do all of your education in French. I love having a second language, but it does get rusty at an alarming rate when not in use, and […]
Yam chocolate chip cookies
Do you remember that feeling when you were a kid at the end of the weekend when a week of school was looming? That slightly disquieting knowledge of an inevitability and inescapable fate that settles into the pit of your stomach. It always carried through until sometime mid-morning on the Monday when the normalcy of […]
Pesto and feta twisty bread
As you can probably tell, I love bread. I think I’ve probably always loved bread, but it wasn’t until I started baking it myself that I really became passionate about it. For me the whole process of baking bread is quite therapeutic in a meditative way. When I really take the time to make dough […]