How many times have I thought: I’m a good cook but I can’t bake to save my life? Like, so, so many times. Part of the reason for this being I practice cooking way more often and it’s easy to get discouraged when baking. Curdle-y Italian buttercream, Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: All About Cake”
My hope is that you’ll find recipes in this book as delicious and satisfying as they are straightforward and achievable. (3)
Cooking is a language that I speak fluently. Like Rosie Daykin, I use that language to say things to those around me. I want people to taste the effort, taste the love. And, part of being able to cook for someone isn’t about showing off the latest culinary technique or hard-to-find ingredient it’s all about making food that’s Continue reading “Book Club Friday Fun Edition: Let Me Feed You”
It was three years ago that the first Love & Lemons Cookbook was published. It was three years ago that I lamented in my review that feeding a toddler is hard! Fast forward three years and I have a happy Continue reading “Book Club Friday Fun Edition: Love & Lemons Every Day”
From the macro level to the micro, Hetty McKinnon‘s cookbooks have gone from Community, to Neighborhood, and finally, Family; all with the express purpose of building connections between people using food. As McKinnon explains, what happens around the table is critical to Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Family”
One of these days I’m going to start preserving and canning, all I must do is to overcome my very real fear of botulatizing my family. And, it’s not for lack of trusted sources — take Marisa McClellan for example. She is all about food in jars. I even Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: The Food in Jars Kitchen”
One of the most difficult aspects of becoming a vegetarian was how (I thought) meals and gatherings would change once I didn’t eat meat, as so many of the annual celebratory meals include it. A Christmas turkey, an Easter ham, or the Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Vegan Goodness – Feasts”
If there is one thing I know for certain in this life it’s that if my mom wants my sister to come for dinner all mom must do is say, “I’m making tacos” and my sister will be there. What is it about tacos that make them so beloved? And, what about salsa? It would seem almost Continue reading “Book Club Friday Fun Edition: Salsas and Tacos”
When I was a kid my mom’s signature cookie was peanut butter. I can see her now standing at the kitchen counter, right beside our old avocado-coloured range, rolling the cookie dough into balls then carefully impressing the back of the fork into the tender dough forming a crosshatch pattern. Baking lends Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: The Little Island Bake Shop”
More and more people are choosing to embrace a vegan diet — for reasons focused on personal health, environmental concerns, as well as distress over the unethical treatment of animals. For whatever the reason, once the choice is made Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: First-Time Vegan”
I saw myself as I truly was: a body with so much beautiful potential. The change didn’t come in an instant but through an intentional process, combined with eating all the good foods, which I will share in this very personal cookbook. (5)
More often than not the cookbooks I’m sent to review are your average cookbook. In the case of Maggie Battista‘s A New Way to Food she offers a book meant to empower and enable her readers to make better food-based health choices Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: A New Way To Food”
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