When I think spring I think nature, sun, flowers, blossom, fresh, life, new and much more. But then I look out the window here in Halifax and I can’t help but thinking gray, rain, wet and windy. No, I’m not pessimistic by nature, don’t get me wrong but seriously, how many sunless days can one […]
When I entered my “Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies” recipe to the “My Cookies Are The Best” contest with “Manitoba Canola Growers” I didn’t really think I would win. Not that my cookies are not the best, don’t get me wrong, I just figured they are going to have so many entries that my chances are […]
When I used to work on the Halifax Waterfront I sometimes went to grab lunch at the wonderful “Cabin Coffee” Café . This little place has the most amazing atmosphere, a cozy and homey one. Imagine a cold winter day and you’re sitting at the café having your hot soup and yummy sandwich in front […]
The great cooking website Food52.com was having a contest. The theme of the contest was grapes; anything you can make with grapes. Knowing how much my family loves my Tanned Apple Cake, I decided to use its base and create a new filling – a grape filling. I added some blueberries to the mix as […]
My all time favorite cookies are cookies originated in Argentina; they’re called “Alfajores”. I always thought that they are hard to make and therefore never made them before. The Alfajores are basically sandwich cookies filled with caramel crème (Dolche De Leche), and the cookies are made of soft, melt in your mouth dough. In fact, […]
I’m sure most of you know Starbuck’s famous lemon-poppy seed loaf. I love that cake! It’s one of my favorites. While organizing my spices I bumped into a bag of poppy seeds and so I decided to make the famous loaf. I looked through my recipes and couldn’t find it, but I was still determined […]
Purim is probably one of my favorite holidays, even though being a child I used to be disappointed every single Purim. We used to have a “Mishloach Manot” exchange in class when I was in elementary school, it’s like a cookie exchange event 🙂 and every year I used to work so hard on my […]