BA in Vancouver

It was a busy, busy October. You could say I was thoroughly baked out. Much of it went undocumented. Thanksgiving: Chocolate-coated shortbread tart filled with crushed blackberry-whipped cream and topped with strawberries. (I’m particularly proud of this creation. What started as a mocha roulade turned into a tart. This is the second time a jelly […]

Fall is in the air! Which means it’s time for a vacation. This year I’m off to accompany and visit friends on the East coast (Montreal and Toronto) and do some serious (I’m talking suuuuuurious)shopping. As a thank-you gift to my Toronto host, I’m sending him a box of homemade goodies. On the menu? Chocolate […]

The Mothership and I have a good cooking relationship – in my kitchen. In other words – she’s a decent sous chef in my kingdom. Or queendom. Or Spoon-dom. Ha. That sounds funny. Anyway – we do particularly well when we have to do wrapping or decorating. As regular readers have seen in previous posts […]

Well…not really. And it wasn’t last night either. The long awaited pictures of H-izzo’s cake! Isn’t it lovely? I admit, the side frosting job was a little shoddy – but by the time I got around to frosting it, I had run out of ideas. The “deets”:-yellow butter cake layers doused with liquer-sandwiching layers of […]

It was the ??th birthday of one half of my dynamic cooking buddies, T & J. This month – it was T’s birthday – but I have J’s ??th birthday coming up in a mere two months! That’s two whole months to sketch out a cake!I suppose it’s become a bit of a tradition of […]

Why do they call it bread, anyway? It’s not kneaded, not risen and punched down, not yeast based; nothing about ‘Banana Bread’ is bread! Maybe it’s because it’s signature shape – traditionally in loaf pans. So should it be called Banana Loaf? I prefer Banana Cake myself – I like a cake-y Banana Bread – […]