Cooking

Pastry, pie crust, pie dough……. I have struggled with this form of baking since I started baking with my Mum. Seriously, the best pie crust pastry came out of her kitchen at any given time. She throws all the ingredients in her bowl, uses her …

I went on a fruit buying drive this morning! I spent a few hours combing what the region had to offer and settled on a few baskets of various varieties of Niagara’s bounty. Peaches are just starting, plums both purple and yellow have arrived  and …

NOUN- a dessert made of fruits cooked with sugar and or spices.  Do you ever go and buy a few baskets of peaches, flats of strawberries/raspberries or too many pints of blueberries and have them sit on your counter…only to move them to the fridge …

June is my second favourite time of the Niagara fruit belt growing season. This area is renowned for its grapes…but then prior to that, in somewhat rapid succession, are all the other choices of fruit that grow so well here. Strawberries grow low to the …

Here’s an oxymoron if I’ve ever written one….the world would be less sweet if lemons didn’t exist! Lemons are and always will be a staple in my baking and cooking repertoire. They provide a much needed acidity for those sickly sweet icings, cakes and sauces …

Oatmeal cookies can make the worst day so much better. An extremely lumpy, sticky, sugary, chocolate-dotted batter almost tastes as good raw as it does baked. (not advisable…but….) The smell when they’re baking could sell your house in 5 minutes! I like my cookies chewy, …