A quick lentil soup that is hearty enough for dinner! While you can use plain brown lentils for this, do try and get the French Lentils (Lentils de Puy). They have a richer flavour, and have a slightly firmer texture than the brown ones. They look like beautiful little speckled stones in their uncooked [...]
I’ve been on a quest for a tasty gluten-free cinnamon bun for a while now, and come across recipes that achieve cinnamon bun flavour, but use a dough that is so wet that you have to bake them in muffin pans. When you are hankering for a cinnamon bun, you really want those layers of dough, [...]
The December 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes.
This one was actually [...]
It all began with a tweet from Karina over at the Karina’s Kitchen, who was getting frustrated trying to come up with a tasty brownie that didn’t rely on eggs. As she mentioned, who knew the brownie was so reliant on the egg!
A quick whirl around the interwebz will reveal lots of brownie recipes, but nary [...]
So here we sit in front of the fire, on the longest night of the year, Winter Solstice. It seemed only fitting that there should be a cocktail to celebrate the day (ok, we’re doing some pretty serious relaxing here Chez Real Food Made Easy!)
I was initially inspired to use a good Canadian Whiskey, seeing as [...]