This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club, we made muffins! Primarily because last weekend I had excess blueberries and bananas at my house and wanted to use them up so some food-waste avoidance became recipe testing for this session with the students! I riffed on my easy banana chocolate chip muffin recipe and subbed … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Banana Breakfast Squares was a recipe I nominated to make this month because I think a good breakfast square is always welcome at the start of a new school year. These were SO good that: I didn’t get any photos except for the one … Read more
Working from home on and off this past year (currently teaching from home, could change sometime, who knows?), I’ve come to appreciate a few silver linings. Whilst it’s definitely not the ideal situation , it does afford me the luxury of eating a proper meal in the middle of the day and sometimes there’s even … Read more
So, little-by-little, I’m working my way through bits and pieces in my Covid pantry. Before the pandemic started, I actually had gone through the pantry and had a pretty good idea of what we had in there and was on a mission to work my way through especially the odd bits of flour, nuts and … Read more
In this week’s edition of “cooking the books”, Les Petits Chefs worked from Christine Tizzard’s debut cookbook, Honest to Goodness. I’ll be reviewing this book in more detail in the next coupe of weeks so stay tuned for that but in short, the book has an “emphasis on raw ingredients and whole foods [and] shows … Read more
This recipe was a happy accident of sorts. A couple of weeks ago it felt like my colleagues could use a pick-me-up after a particularly long and cold week and I wanted it to be a treat that everyone could eat, that I could make with the ingredients I have on hand. If I’m baking … Read more