Happy (French) Friday! I’m in the last throes of signing off on bits and pieces on my manuscript (we’re at the index!) and starting to think ahead to marketing and publicity (choosing recipes to share with media outlets eventually) and my head has been deep in recipes this week. While I love the baking component … Read more
This post is sponsored by Gay Lea. So it’s February. Are you ready to ease off those New Year’s resolutions a little? It’s interesting… I barely brought in any treats to my staffroom this past month as I heard so many people tell me they needed to get back on the “no treats at random … Read more
Raise your hand if, at the back of your kitchen cupboards, you have a stash of little glass yoghurt pots that you carried back from France. Uh huh. I thought so. For the past decade or so, I’ve been to France at least once a year and on every trip, my first grocery haul from … Read more
I’m a huge fan of hot chocolate and quite often around 3pm when my classes are done, I’ll indulge in a small cup to keep me going through the late afternoon. At my last job, I worked in two different buildings and en route from one building to the other, there was a Second Cup … Read more
Here we are. The last dessert I’ll be baking with the French Fridays with Dorie group. What started as a project I said I would take part in “when time permits” in October 2010 became a weekly assignment. Recipes I couldn’t wait to try (mostly). A group of friends. A lot of learning and fun. … Read more
Yikes! Where did the summer go? I’m back at work already for teachers’ planning week and it just seems like yesterday we were wrapping up the school year (actually it was mid-June so nowhere near yesterday but it certainly feels like it!). During the crazy first few weeks of school, I sometimes find it hard … Read more