This is a rich, sophisticated Christmas cookie that captures the essence of the season and then lavishes it with white chocolate. A cookie that asks you to buy the best white chocolate you can find and chop it into chunks. … Continue reading
. This is not a breakfast type cookie. Or an after school snack cookie. This is pure and wonderful indulgence. A cookie to be served on vintage Limoges plates when an old friend joins you for afternoon tea. This is … Continue reading
This is no ordinary ginger cookie. It delivers an extraordinary burst of ginger flavour and then offers more. It has the crisp ginger snap that goes beautifully with cold milk. There’s a hit of molasses that reminds you of … Continue reading
This is not your quiet, little every day coffee cake. This is a coffee cake with attitude. The cake is rich with sour cream and enhanced with the brilliant, tart flavour of cranberries. There is the important streusel crumb topping. … Continue reading
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Slender, delicate, refreshing English cucumbers. Beloved in cucumber sandwiches. Adored in Salads. Admired in pickles. And wonderful lavished on burgers. English cucumbers piled in glorious green pyramids at the vegetable markets. I fill my shopping basket with them. Cucumbers … Continue reading
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Early morning. I’ve walked out to the garden to harvest tomatoes. My farmer neighbour is cutting hay in the field near by. The swaths lay in military straight rows. The air is filled with the perfume of the freshly cut … Continue reading
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I walk to the garden past hedges heavy with fragrant with wild roses and awash with cow parsley. Blackbirds, wrens, robins and song thrushes fill the air with glorious song. The early morning sun catches glittering drops of dew suspended … Continue reading
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This rich,dense, spectacularly chocolate cake in every is my absolute favorite of all cakes. It has a delicate moist crumb and the dream-like chocolate buttercream frosting stays light and fluffy to the very last slice. This is the cake … Continue reading
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If I could make only one type of pie a crostata would be my choice. It is spectacular in presentation with a sublime choice of fillings. Its professional appearance belies the simplicity of its construction. A dessert to swoon over … Continue reading
A wind like wolves prowling across the fields. Growling at windows and doors. Snarling down the fireplace chimney. The kind of rainy, dark, dismal day that cried out for a kitchen perfumed with the fragrance of exotic spices. A cake! … Continue reading
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