Hello and Happy French Friday! I’ve got a feel-good French read for you today by one of my favourite authors – Gillian Harvey’s The Bordeaux Books Club! From the publisher: Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members! When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Breakfast in Rome Lemon Cake is based on a cake that Dorie discovered when she was in Rome and: scanned the bar and was stopped by a cake as yellow as a child’s drawing of the sun. It was tall and simple and made … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Potato Flake Biscuits are actually what I’d call scones – savoury scones. For Australians, “biscuits” means what North Americans call “cookies” but I know enough now from baking from North American cookbooks to expect a scone-type thing this week before I even looked at the … Read more
Did you know – today, February 26th, is Canada’s National Cupcake Day – raising money for the Ontario SPCA. That’s right – today is all about cupcakes – and raising money to help animals in need all around Canada. What is Cupcake Day? Originally launched by the RSPCA in New South Wales, Australia, National Cupcake … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. It’s also the FINAL recipe* the Cook the Book Fridays group will make – having started working our way through this in November 2018. Five and a half years! This book joins my “cooked my way through it” shelf of … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Copenhagen Rye Cookies with Chocolate, Spice and Seeds is a bit of a mouthful to say but actually come together very easily with (mostly) ingredients I normally have on hand. The “rye flour” from the title isn’t actually that significant, there is more all-purpose/ … Read more