19 Sep, 2013
Posted by: andrea tomkins In: Oh! Things!|Recipes and Food
You don’t often hear those two words together, do you? Delicious. Butter. CHEESE can be delicious. And so can bread. Cupcakes can be delicious too (as I’ve written about recently). But butter? It does not have that kind of reputation, at least not here in Canadian grocery stores as far as I know. Sidebar: I […]
13 Jun, 2012
Posted by: andrea tomkins In: Challenge me, challenge you|Recipes and Food
In the first post of this series I mentioned that my ill-fitting pants were a direct result of the terrible meals I was eating in the month before our move. I just wasn’t making time to feed myself properly. I almost always forgot to eat breakfast, so I’d eat one lunch at 11, and another […]
Subtitle: What To Do With All Of The Crusts Your Kids Won’t Eat in the Weeks Months to Come I like to eat my crusts. Maybe that’s why I hate it when they come back home to me, like some kind of crazy shape-shifting boomerang. I send a sandwich to school – BAM – it comes back […]
11 Sep, 2010
Posted by: andrea tomkins In: Recipes and Food
Sugar-free muffins? That taste good? Oh yeah baby.
Before our household all fell down with THE SICK I discovered a very easy bread recipe over at the Canadian Living website for Irish Soda Bread. The amazing thing about this recipe is (1) it doesn’t require any kneading or rising time (basically the two things that scare people about making bread) and (2) it tastes really really […]
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