You start out with an idea, a concept of where you want to take it. A taste, a feel, a look. A finished product to be savoured and enjoyed. ...

Do you know your neighbours? Will they shovel your walk? Will you shovel theirs? Have you had backyard happy hour together? Built a really n...

Don't let that fake mom on the commercial fool you - Nutella is evil. I don't care if you tell me there is a cup of skim milk in an ...

Christmas baking has begun. In my world nothing Christmas can come before December 1st. Even that is pushing it. Then again, we are a house ...

For the record, a chocolate chip cookie is not just a chocolate chip cookie. Put aside the preferences for chewy or chunky, nuts or pure, co...

Not surprisingly, it snowed in Alberta this week. Saskatchewan too. (Hubby is snowed in there right now.) For all the grumbling of my mom a...

This blog was only meant to be a hobby. A few recipes snuck in on my quilting blog, but I wasn't really thinking of going back to the fo...

It seems that your quads are the first muscle to atrophy when you wreck your knees. Despite the layers of insulation covering those large mu...

We've never been huge Valentine's Day fans in this house.  Well, that's not 100% true.  I adored Valentine's Day when I was ...

There is something immensely appealing about the making the last recipe in a cookbook. Don't ask me why, but I got a little giddy seeing...

I have officially reached a point where there can be chocolate in the house and I am not constantly thinking about devouring it.  Shocking, ...

The world is overrun with chocolate this week.  Bunnies and eggs and little fake nests filled with plastic clippings.  I, myself, am a sucke...

Because beer doesn't qualify as food (although it has qualified as dinner before) it cannot truly be considered a comfort food.  Besides...

Stay-at-home moms don't get Christmas parties. Especially stay-at-home moms married to a self-employed men. There is no reason to go sho...

The perfect brownie can make anyone feel better. I've been feeling the need to eat a lot of brownies lately. Not that I need more things...

I'm sure at one point in history, perhaps after the invention of the ice cream maker, that headlines around the world screamed the trut...

For our Tuesday Toodle yesterday we decided to tour the Bernard Callebaut factory. Hubby's cousin was visiting from the Okanagan and h...