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What can you make with eggs, milk, sugar, flour, vanilla and nutmeg. Why a Boston Cream Pie of course!

With the much anticipated summer finally here, it may seem like a fruit dessert of some sort would be the natural choice for a dessert but no, …

To tell you the truth, I don’t really care for grapes. In fact, I’d probably say that I eat more raisins than fresh grapes. I have no good reason to feel this way but I’m just saying they are not a staple around here.
Just the …

The Bon Appetit covers keep getting me, and April’s Ultimate Sticky Buns were no exception. In fact, I was so excited about making them, I asked Tina to join me in our own attempt to duplicate their amazing results! And I’ve got to say, these …

I Cooked the Cover of Bon Appetit’s April issue. This months cover featured The Ultimate Sticky Bun! And by ultimate I think they meant not only the ultimate in taste but also in kitchen disaster bombs, I had a bit of a mess to clean up …

My forays into bread baking started at a young age. Standard production of many loaves of hearty whole grain bread were a weekly occurrence in my childhood. I still fondly recall thick slabs of bread, freshly out of the oven, melting with butter and perhaps …

Cookies – who can get enough of them? Around our house, it seems like we almost have more fun making them than eating them. Every weekend, or so it seems, the little guy starts rummaging around in the cupboards, finds the mixer and started chanting …

I stepped out of my front door this morning and into a hallway filled with the sound of my neighbours alarm clock, which he was obviously trying very hard to ignore. I could related. Just one short hour earlier I was the one pressing snooze …

It’s almost the weekend and I’m thinking about what I should be baking this weekend. I have to tell you though, I simply can’t shake the memory of some delicious pain au raisins from Paris. I feasted on them during my recent trip. Goodness knows …

We’ve had a few days of crazy warm weather. It was the kind of weather that sends people to their closets to hunt out shorts and flip-flops. While I didn’t go scrounging for shorts, I did manage to take a nice bike ride and putter …

So it turns out that I might be a sucker for the Bon Appétit cover recipes. And while taking on cover recipes is always a little daunting, it’s been a rewarding experience overall! The recipes are always delicious although my presentation tends to be a …