a peek inside the fishbowl

Pandemic baking! It’s all the rage. So is pandemic eating… at least around here. Sigh. Yesterday we picked up an order from the Ottawa Bagelshop. (Curbside pick up!) Cue the angels: I have officially entered the world of the no-knead breads. Frankly, it’s miraculous how such a lovely loaf can come together with so little […]

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 […]

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 […]

Sugar-free muffins? That taste good? Oh yeah baby.