This started out as butterscotch pudding, but we’re not scotch drinkers, so I switched the scotch with rum, and baptized it with a new name. And I dare say, it was a match made in heaven. My husband’s mother used to make butterscotch pie all the time, so this dessert brings back special memories in […]
Strawberry Coffee Cake
There is something rather delightful that happens when the food about which you write is also being consumed as a snack at the same time. In this case, I’ve got a thick slice of strawberry coffee cake alongside a large mug of chai tea, and am ready to write about it. First, I take a […]
Baklava Muffins
Every weekend I bake a batch of muffins. I find it tremendously comforting to have some baked goods in the house at all times; it gives me that domestic goddess feeling, and I quite like the idea of owning up to that image of the happy homemaker who cooks and bakes from scratch for the […]
Holiday Chocolate Muffins (AKA Chantal’s Toblerone Chocolate Muffins)
Pop quiz. Are you: feeling sad feeling hungry feeling happy wanting to put a smile on someone’s face facing a mountain of leftover chocolates from the most recent holiday a chocolate lover any combination of the above If so, then read on. If not, stay with me here anyways, because today, you will find love […]
Tomato Onion Jam
I’ve long been looking for that one signature recipe that I could claim as my own, so that for all get togethers, people would say, “Chantal, can you make your…” You know what I mean, right? It’s that recipe that no one has, but everyone wants. Only, instead of asking you for the recipe (though […]