It’s berry picking season! You can enjoy your berries au natural or treat yourself, and loved ones, to freshly baked berry goodness. Blackcurrant Jittery Jam Squares are made with Blackcurrant Jam, using blackcurrants we picked ourselves at Paradis des Fruits. What a great pick! We headed home with a trunk full of tasty fruit for…
Cookie Dough – I love you
Have you been to a cooking class in your local grocery store? I’ve found fantastic recipes and superb chefs, such as culinary instructor and certified nutritionist Abigail Nagorski, at Whole Foods Market. Abigail delights everyone with her whole food cookie dough. While I abhor regular cookie dough’s sickeningly, cloyingly sweet flavour and texture, these Cookie Dough morsels are heavenly little…
Chia Coconut Delight – Overflowing Passion
I was still sleeping when I realized that Kegel exercises need to be renamed. If we’re to take the exercises seriously and make practice a priority, then let’s give them a memorable name. How about P hugs? That kind of imagery should keep you focused. Why is this epiphany coming to you in a food…
Nutty Fruity Bits – Revealing!
Do you ever wonder about questionnaires and what they really reveal? If you want a window into people’s thoughts, the Proust’s Questionnaire is a good place to start. You can even find out which celebrities you most resemble on Vanity Fair’s version of the Proust Questionnaire. I’m practically one with Jane Goodall and quite in synch with Ray Charles….
Rhubarb with Molten Marshmallow
Here is the question: Can you fear what you love? I say “yes.” I love cream–but I also fear what it can do to my midline. So I search for alternatives. “Seek and you shall find,” as they say. While in Paris, I had the most delicious rhubarb dessert. The base was a shortbread cookie,…
Grownup Serious Chocolate – Problem Dissolver
According to The Lust Quotient, we are supposed to separate from our partners, albeit temporarily, to keep romance alive. I could say that’s why I just returned from a trip to Paris with a girlfriend, but it’s not the whole truth. We went on a culinary quest. Slowly, but surely the details will emerge on…