A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
I went on a bit of cooking and baking bender this weekend. I start pulling out cookbooks and get in a mood where I want to try everything. Today’s experiment was a chocolate pecan pie from The Ghiradelli Chocolate Cookbook.
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I popped into a second-hand book store the other day on search for a book that our pupper had gotten hold of. They didn’t have the book I was looking for, so I wandered over to the cookbooks section. I
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I originally had a different recipe up for honeycomb (seafoam) from a time when I was watching an episode of The Incredible Spice Men, on which they were making chocolate and cardamom mousse cake with honeycomb. But due to the
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The Hubby loves banana bread, so when my sister gave me a bunch of extra bananas she had, I picked out some of the more ripe ones to make chocolate chip banana bread with. Banana bread can be made so
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I had a good handful of the chocolate eggs that I wanted to use up in one fell swoop so they wouldn’t hang around and be tempting. Luckily, I found this recipe for chocolate pound cake, that didn’t use sour
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Rumballs are a Christmas staple in my house. Easy to make, delectable, and always a hit for giving away as presents or at Christmas parties. The chocolate ones are actually a family recipe of a friend. Our friends had ladies in their family
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I was watching Pioneer Woman the other day and she made a spicy coffee that she called the Spicy Cowgirl. It looked awesome and was easily made low carb by making the spicy simple syrup with Splenda instead of sugar.
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The other day I was putting away groceries and noticed a can of chocolate milk stout that the Hubby hadn’t drunk. This is a milk stout, that is flavoured with chocolate, not a chocolate milk tasting stout. Either way, I
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Another new Christmas treat for me. Bizarrely, I don’t think I’ve ever made fudge. Probably because it’s not my all-time desired sugar fix. But after struggling to get my caramels to work this year, and not feeling in the mood
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Inspired from a recipe that combined a plain coffee jelly with a mocha mousse, I decided to cut down the prep time, and made a mocha coffee jello topped with whip cream. It turned out really well, a nice light
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