Once upon a time, I had been invited to join my sister & her partner at Bishop’s for dinner. It was a lovely late spring day, and I was so excited to be going to one of my favourite chef’s restaurants. I had no idea just how much that visit would help me in understanding…
Category: Breads
Butternut Squash Spoon Bread
Spoon bread seems to be in every magazine right now, and I figured it was about time I found out just what it is! Trolling online and through cookbooks, I found out just a couple of essentials. Firstly, it is made with cornmeal, secondly it has eggs in it, and thirdly, no self respecting American…
Pumpkin Scones with Ginger
For the past week or so, the island has been blanketted in fog. Occasionally in the afternoon we get glimpses of blue sky which sends shots of light through the lingering wisps of fog, creating forests of sunbeams. Even though I know that the sky is blue up above the fog bank, I live in…
Banana Bread with Cinnamon Sugar
I figured that this weekend I would start the last round of lawn mowing as the grass stops growing for the year and before the ground becomes saturated with rainwater. We have a fair bit that gets mowed, and all of it is simply native meadow grass that we’ve been cutting for years. Unfortunately it…
Cinnamon Buns
A long, long time ago, in a city far, far away, there used to be a coffee house named Boca Bar. It was a few blocks from where my best friend and I shared a basement suite. We would wander up there some evenings to sit and talk. Even though we lived together, schooled together,…
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