Jamaican Pumpkins went on sale at NoFrills for $0.17/pound. This means I’m bringing what I can carry home. Turns out, I can only bring one home a week since they’re somewhat large and heavy (I already have 12 L of milk, 6 lbs of apples, and other things in the cart). The one I hefted […]
It starts with “Mama, can you please buy a pie pumpkin when you go to the grocery store? I want to make a pumpkin pie.”
Our friends in the neighbourhood have an organic urban farm and when we walked over to pick up some fresh veggies, Felix got to harvest some fingerling potatoes.
Long weekends are for trying out new foods 😀 The recipes for the filling and icing is from Felix’s chocolate cheesecake. The crust is from this recipe, with the following tweaks: increased butter to roughly 120 g reduced brown sugar to 36 g reduced white sugar to 20 g reduced chocolate chips to 100 g
Felix wanted to make his birthday cake this year, a chocolate cheesecake with chocolate icing. I used this recipe for the chocolate wafer cookies for the crust. Tweaks were:– halved both sugars– increased butter from 113 g to 120 g ish We used this recipe for the cheesecake. Tweaks included:– removed all the sugar in […]
We’ve made Byron Bay Chocolate Chip cookies a number of times. Recently, Lara had been talking about making cookie balls instead of slicing the cookies prior to baking. Today, she put that into action.
Lara found the recipe for lamingtons one day, and decided she wanted to make them. They looked so yummy!! Thank goodness for Lara because without her willingness to try it, I would only look at the pictures and salivate.
Since he’s virtual schooling, he often makes his own breakfasts and lunches. There’s always a theme … If I took a picture of every meal where he makes eggs, there’d be hundreds of pictures since it’s been almost 365 days since schools shut down last March. We go through 4 dozen eggs every week!
Weekends are important to the kids, not just because there’s no school. They often get fancier breakfasts (crepes or dutch pancakes are frequent), and they make many of the foods themselves. Lunch (no pictures) was sourdough baguettes with avocado, purple onions, cream cheese, and smoked salmon.