Daily Unadventures in Cooking

Roasting figs is trivially easy, a hot oven and a clean casserole dish and you are halfway there.

Grilled pineapple is a lovely light treat. Amazing topped with vanilla ice cream.

A carrot cake cupcake recipe which is not only a delicious sweet treat, but with whole wheat flour and yogourt it’s good for you too!

You will never look at a banana the same way after you have tried this. When I looked at bananas I used to see a conduit to peanut butter or a natural oatmeal sweetener, now I see ice cream. But not just any ice cream, in fact, not even ice cream at all – at [...]

These are my Mum’s brownies, otherwise known as the best brownies ever. Leftover’s do not last long and they will satisfy any chocolate lover. The key is a high icing to brownie ratio and the little bit of coffee in the icing enhances the cocoa flavour.    Bring these to your next holiday party. Similar Recipes: [...]

These pumpkin pie cupcakes are flavoured with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves.

A crisp or crumble is always a good dessert to make if you have too much fruit around, but it is also a favorite of mine because it so rustic and comforting. This crisp uses pears, cranberries and apples to take advantage of what is currently in season. The tartness of the cranberries are delicious [...]

This pear pie recipe uses fresh pears which you first caramelize in butter, brown sugar and rum and then bake inside fresh pastry for a delicious result.

Is a cupcake a cupcake without icing? Personally I think that a cake or a cupcake, is still a cake even if it isn’t frosted. Unfortunately my friends do not, so these have currently been dubbed “muffcakes” until I make them again and frost them. I thought they were lovely without frosting but I think [...]

This raspberry coulis may be the easiest thing you will ever make, perfect to serve with spongecake, cheesecake or lemon tart.

Farmers markets are a great test to my self control, a test which I generally fail. Two weeks ago I hit up the Kitsilano Farmers Market and came out with peas, kale, 2lbs of cherries, zucchini, strawberries, raspberries, garlic scapes and one lone bay plant. Realizing how much fruit I had I was determined to [...]

Experimenting with a lattice top on my perfect strawberry rhubarb pie recipe.

Ever since I discovered the Frozen Yogourt recipe from The Perfect Scoop I just can’t get enough. I turned it into Blackberry Frozen Yogourt last year and now Rhubarb. It is so easy (no friggin custard, thanks), better for you and tastes great. The reason I chose the Manuka Honey was that it has such [...]

A few weeks ago I really wanted to make these cookies everyone in the blog world was talking about – Dreena Burton’s Super Charge Me Cookies. Despite 30 minutes worth of googling I couldn’t find the recipe anywhere on the web and instead put a request in for the book at the library. Last week [...]

A refreshing and tart rhubarb and ginger compote recipe, amazing on oatmeal or pancakes for breakfast.

Dates, dried pineapple, vanilla, coconut and raw almonds make the base of these donuts, a raw dessert treat!

This is such an easy thing to make. I am sure it would be even easier if you had an apple corer, but I don’t actually know that. I have made the original version I picked up here once before and it was excellent. However since I was out of both nutmeg and brown sugar [...]

This month the Daring Bakers were given the arduous task of making Eclairs by our hosts Tony Tahhan and MeetaK. Either I am getting more used to these challenges or they are getting easier because this challenge ended with no disasters. For one thing I only halved the recipe this time, eating 12 eclairs in [...]

First let me just say I really liked this challenge of the Danish Braid. At first I was afraid it would be too daunting but in the end I had such a good time. The ingredients weren’t too expensive and we both gobbled it up. The only gotcha for me was completely my fault. After [...]

This month’s Daring Baker challenge was something I hadn’t even heard of before. Opera Cake. This is a serious cake to make for someone whose dessert baking is generally brownies or cookies. I liked what a marathon it was but as a disclaimer I am really more of a bread baker. In fact I think [...]