On the long, long list of things that went wrong during the creation of the (finally!) glorious Apple cider cake with salted caramel sauce, I accidentally made my first batch of…

Hello everyone! Looking for a really simple, quick breakfast recipe that requires absolutely zero cooking on your part? It’s easily customized based on whatever you’ve got in your pantry, and…

I have always, always been a procrastinator. In high school, I fancied myself to be a teen prodigy (see also: misunderstood genius, centre of the universe, eldest child complex), so…

Summer in Ontario is so short that when we reach peak produce time, I end up shopping like a maniac. Never mind that I show up at the market with…

Over the winter, Alan and I spent a couple weeks in Chile (which you can read about here and here), and I spent most of the plane ride over trying to memorize Spanish…

Last weekend, we drove out to Niagara on a perfect summer day. It was so hot the ice melted in our water bottle almost immediately, and I watched the condensation…

Throughout my childhood, my father always kept a bag of Fig Newton cookies around, stored in a cookie tin to preserve a ‘freshness’ I’m not convinced they ever really had….

Alternative titles considered for this post: “How much raw cake batter can a person consume without dying?” “How to dirty basically all your dishes and not be certain it’s worth…

A couple of weeks ago, I woke up in a distinctly different season. It was damp and cool, with wisps of fog trailing across the park. I tiptoed into the…

As a longtime recipe developer and former food editor, I own a lot of cookbooks. Once in a while, though, something truly special will come along — the kind of…

Let me say this to start: Yotam Ottolenghi is one of my favourite cookbook authors. He creates truly special dishes that are almost always a delight to eat, and pairs…

It’s 26°C in my apartment and, no joke, I am wearing a sweater. We’ve had a couple of cooler mornings recently, and although my first thought upon leaving home was…