Cooking

If you are a child of the 70’s/80’s “Snackin’ Cake” (Betty Crocker) was a staple in most kitchens to keep up with the ever increasing demands on the working wife’s time. Even back then , without the help of cellphones and automated everything, companies were …

My arch nemesis in the baking world. I love to eat pie, I love the variations of fillings available to insert in a pie, I love the fact that you can make both sweet and main course pies BUT, I cannot master the crust. I …

This holiday always provides the best cooking and baking smells…..ham roasting in all its sweet- glazed smokiness…hot cross buns and carrot cake’s cinnamon nutmeg aroma filling the house.. There is always a reason to crank up the oven and fill it with both savoury and …

I can always make an iffy cookie-eater a “Belgians believer” with one taste of this recipe. Mom would make these at Christmas time every year.  Between working full time, keeping the house running fairly smoothly and almost effortlessly (it seemed), keeping us healthy and happy. …

I can’t believe I haven’t posted about cookies yet! I confess…I have a cookie baking problem. I love finding a recipe, shopping for the ingredients, mixing it and making a mess of the kitchen, if only, for the production and execution of that perfect first …

On to larger volume baked goods! One of my earliest baking memories is trying to copy the coffee cakes my Mum made for special occasions (outside of the regular birthdays and calendar holidays). The smell of this cake baking…..heavenly! Having German and British backgrounds lends …

My favourite way to give the house that ‘baked’ smell is to throw together a batch of muffins. The possibilities are endless and with a 20 minute baking time…they are a godsend when you’re in a rush. They can be a sweet, savoury, healthy, vegetarian, …

Squares, Slabs, Slices, Sheet Pan …… There are so many different kinds of bars to choose from!!!!They have stood the test of time and continue to show up in every combination imaginable. In the 70’s I remember the graham cracker- crusted, melted marshmallow, coconut, gooey, …