Another year, another blueberry bundt cake. This is another recipe that has truly become “a classic”. It’s something I make every year and it’s always delicious. Of course I only make it when it’s blueberry season – which we are well into. And it’s really only for this recipe that I break out the nice […]
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Chicago Day 3: Chocolate
A couple of years ago, my birthday present to myself was a chocolate making course at a local pastry school. It was an all-day course and we learned how to manipulate chocolate into various forms – including how to temper chocolate by hand. Tempering chocolate is extremely difficult and takes years to master. I’ll quickly […]
Chicago Day 2: Croissants
Chef stood at his usual place behind the demonstration table. In his French accent, he declared, “Today, we make croissants.” He began to explain to us the methodology of croissants and the work involved. I always knew croissants were tricky and labour-intensive. Every flaky layer is created by pockets of butter and unlike pie crusts, […]
Day 1: Why Chicago?
I think for those around me on a day to day basis know that I’ve been planning this Chicago trip for a long time. At the end of 2010 a beautiful and moving documentary called “The Kings of Pastry” was released in Vancouver. I had heard about this movie months before and the screening week […]
Chicaaaago!
Sometimes I can’t believe this is the only blog I used to post on. Now I have two other ‘personal’ blogs and one other ‘work’ one that also combines a lot of social media work. So although I haven’t been writing a lot here – I have been writing lots elsewhere! I’m still churning out […]
Lemon Coconut Bars
I generally bake when: I feel inspired to create I’m craving something in particular I’ve been tasked (Mothership) Luckily the topic for this post is for “craving”. That particular craving was for lemon squares. I admit, I’ve never been a huge fan of lemon bars. They’re either too tart, too sweet or too artificial. Just…”too”. […]
BA in Vancouver 