I’m excited to announce the first in a monthly series here on eat. live. travel. write. where I’ll be highlighting a different chapter of The Everyday Baker each month in 2016. Sort of like a year-long book review! If you’re not familiar with this book, it’s a comprehensive resource for anyone who loves to bake, … Read more
Win a copy of The Everyday Baker Thanks to the kind folks at The Taunton Press I have one copy of The Everyday Baker by Abigail Dodge (I wrote about it here) to give away to one lucky reader! How to enter: There are 2 ways to enter (maximum of two entries per person for … Read more
Yikes, it’s been a long time since I participated in Abby Dodge’s #BakeTogether. Since January in fact. Ahem. Life has a habit of getting in the way of best intentions, doesn’t it? I do find it ironic that I chose to come back to one of my favourite baking groups when I am in Paris, … Read more
See that up there ^^^^^ Yes, that’s bread. Baked by me. I know, I know, it’s not really that impressive, but if you consider the last time I posted about bread, well, I have come a really long way…. Oh sure, I can make macarons but bread and yeasted breads in particular have always eluded … Read more
This month’s Baketogether event run by the lovely Abby Dodge featured Classic Spiced Sour Cream Coffee Cake. Abby encourages us to experiment and change stuff up in her recipes so instead of a giant coffee cake for 10 (why is it that every dessert recipe I make these days is supposed to serve 10? Certainly … Read more
For this month’s Baketogether, the lovely Abby Dodge offered us “Irene cookies” in honour of the guest who overstayed her welcome at Abby’s house last month. Abby promised that “one bite of this cookie and filling is all you’ll need to help you assuage the burden of #Irene.. or whatever else ails you!” Basically they … Read more