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Renée Kohlman’s debut cookbook, All the Sweet Things is one that will catch your eye in a bookstore because of its beautiful cover (featuring, unsurprisingly, a lovely selection of, well, sweet things!). You’ll pick it up, flip through, drawn in by the lovely photos inside the book. Then you’ll start reading a headnote. Then another. … Read more
Win a copy of All the Sweet Things (Canada)! Thanks to Touchwood Editions, I have a copy of All the Sweet Things (I wrote about it here) to give away to a lucky reader with a Canadian address. To enter, simply leave a comment on this post telling me your favourite baking memory. For a … Read more
The Petits Chefs worked with Rossy Earle this week to create one of everyone’s favourite condiments – hot sauce! Rossy’s the queen of hot sauce (her Diabo’s Fuego sauce is used in many restaurants around Toronto) so I was really happy when she said it was “do-able” in an hour! I know many of the … Read more
This week, for Tuesdays with Dorie’s recipe from Baking Chez Moi, we made Plain and Simple Almond Cake. It really is “plain and simple” as it contains only three main ingredients: eggs, almonds and sugar (with a touch of salt and vanilla). I, of course, minified the recipe to make three 4-inch cakes which were … Read more
This post is sponsored by Green & Black’s. Though I inherited my love of sweet things, especially chocolate, from both my mum and my dad, mum and I share a love of a little something sweet everyday. Dad enjoys good chocolate from time to time but he isn’t fussed if he doesn’t eat chocolate every … Read more
This post is sponsored by Gay Lea. It’s Sunday. Time for a leisurely breakfast and a read of the weekend papers we might not have got to from yesterday. Sometimes on Sunday if we’re lucky, one of us will head out to the local bakery to pick up some baked goods to enjoy with our … Read more