What do you do with a bottle of Falernum?

Why make cocktails, of course.  I have had my newly finished bottle of falernum sitting in the fridge for a couple of days now, and decided I had better start putting it to good use!

After a fair bit of research, I ended up using Kaiser Penguin’s recipe for falernum, and used Lamb’s 151 as the base.  [...]

of Sin Dawgs and fresh-ground whole wheat flour!

The other day, I picked up some freshly ground red-fife flour from Cliff Leir at Fol Epi bakery.  I’ve been using the Red Fife flour from SaltSpring Mills and been quite happy with it, BUT I found out that Cliff is using grain from the same organic farmer in Saskatchewan AND, its milled fresh the same [...]

Slightly healthy buttertarts

I’m not sure if its the weather, or what, but I’ve been craving buttertarts for the past few days.  After a couple of days of trying to ignore it, I figured I would go ahead and make them — justifying it by making the crust with whole grain flour.

I may have blogged before about the SaltSpring [...]

Now Thats-a Spicy Cookie!

I’ve been playing around with teff flour lately, and, given the weather, been craving spice cookies.  It was only a matter of time before the two came together!

One of my favourite cookies are molasses-spice cookies.  Not too sweet, slightly chewier and puffier than gingersnaps, and rolled in sugar just before you bake them for a nice [...]

I like meatballs so much I’m blogging about them!

I love meatballs.   Meaty goodness, in a bite-sized package — all the fun of meatloaf without the commitment!

One of the things I like about them is the fact that you can combine them with all kinds of flavours — any way you want.  That way you can eat them in all kinds of forms — not [...]