pumpkin ginger cranberry snack bars.

These were the second type of bars that I made for my yoga/Ayurveda workshop!  Woo! I think I prefer these bars over the Winter Sun ones – I love their chewy, moist texture, and the deep flavour of the molasses balances well with the heat of the dried ginger.  These are based off of the …

homemade ice cream 2.0.

Maybe the dairy is clouding my brain, but I don’t think I’ll ever buy ice cream from the grocery store again. It is so easy and so gratifying to make ice cream from scratch – I think it’s one of the great secret pleasures of life.  And you don’t need an ice cream maker. Last …

a stack of crepes.

In another life, I spent a summer waitressing at a crepe restaurant in cottage country.  This was a year or so after a crepe restaurant would open up on a very busy intersection in the city I grew up in, and a few years before I would move to a city where yet another crepe …

thank you cookies.

As I get older, I slowly begin to accept myself for being how I am.  Accept, and then mitigate, because even though I am allowed to be flawed, it would still be nice to have company.  In order to make up for my lacks in social grace, I thrust my cooking and baking on my …

Portrait of a gluten-free ginger carob cake.

Celiacs rejoice!  (Cue angelic trumpets, round cherub babies gathering on ceilings, and gold leaf trim.) Here is a gluten-free version of the vegan gingerbread cake from a few weeks prior. Through stealthy research on the Internet, I came upon the decision to replace each 100 g of all-purpose flour with 115 g of a mix …

i’ve always wanted to do this.

I made my own vanilla ice cream by hand with a bowl and wooden spoon, without an ice cream maker - !!! My forearms feel very powerful. I’ve wanted to make ice cream at home for ages, and always that it would be unachievable without an ice cream maker – but in the spirit of seizing …