delightfully citrusy madeleines

Filming is tiring. Editing is tedious. But if the crew is fun, then it makes it all better. Well, almost. So, to make the best of all of this schlepping around in blizzards, I’ve decided to make madeleines to accompany the work and the complaining we all seem to be doing.
Okay, so maybe my intentions [...]

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KnockOut knock-off girl scout cookie bars

Since my oven is still on the fritz, I decided to be as productive as ever today: hanging out with Opie & her Boy usually is one of my favourite things to do, but we don’t really get much done while lounging around. Yet, I managed to finagle them into baking cookies with mer. Correction: [...]

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You’re the cream cheese icing on my carrot cake

It was the Boy’s 22nd birthday on Wednesday, and after wowing him with the snickerdoodles on Vday, I had to think of yet another way to surprise &delight him and his tummy. So, after much deliberation, I decided to bake him his favourite cake: carrot cake. However, since it was just going to be a [...]

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what does Monet do without his canvas?

He paints on the walls. Which is what I did. Sorta.
Well, for those who don’t know: my oven broke. As in, it’s kaputt. As in, no more cookies, right? Well, that’s where you’re wrong. And thank goodness for that, because a house without cookies, especially when it’s mine, is a very very sad house.
So here [...]

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Snickerdoodle Love

For this year, the Boy and I decided to keep it on the downlow and make presents rather than buying presents. However, my only condition was that we HAVE to exchange cards because I’m a big sucker for them. So I baked his favourite cookies, the simple yet delicious snickerdoodle – but with a valentine’s [...]

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thank-goodness-it’s-reading-week cupcakes

Today’s Friday the 13th, and we had out last newscast before we finally commence for reading week. After all the stress or filming and editing, I thought it’d be nice to end on a sweet note. So here are the Valentine’s day/Reading week cupcakes that I decided to bake! I found the recipe on David [...]

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blueberry lovin’

Raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, currants, blackberries, cherries: yum yum yum. Sadly, they are not in season right now, and are ridiculously expensive to buy except for two weeks ago, when they had organic blueberries on sale for 3/$5 – which is when I made two blueberry lemon crumble pies!
Delicious, easy to make and even somewhat healthy [...]

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Bakesale Mania

My brother and I are pretty much on each other’s cases all the time: throwing physical and verbal punches around, being extra difficult just to annoy the other person, and all of that other  old school brother/sister loving.
However, when it comes down to crunch time, we do have each other’s backs. I help him with [...]

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cinnaswirls revisited

The cinnabon-wannabe swirley cookie things were a big hit by all my friends who make it a habit to eat all my food and leave me with nothing. So, I decided to make the cookies again, and try a bit harder to improve the aesthetics-  ‘cuz it’s all about how you look, babycakes.
Anyhow, I doubled [...]

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StumbleUpon

So my friend just told me that she uses StumbleUpon, and that one of her hits was my blog. Which is kind of cool and kind of unnerving at the same time. So this post is dedicated to all you stumblers!
Dear StumbleUpon users,
thank you for visiting, or rather, tough luck stumbling onto my blog =) [...]

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