Home-made Peanut Butter Cups!

I have to admit peanut butter and chocolate is a weakness of mine, so when I saw a recipe for three ingredient home-made peanut butter cups I had to try them. It just seemed so much cuter than scooping peanut butter out of the jar and sprinkling chocolate chips on top – which I do …

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Creating Christmas Traditions

I don’t come from a big immediate family ( 1 sister and 1 brother),  neither does my husband, (same sibling arrangement, oddly) and we don’t have a large extended family network. While I admit I have often longed for, and no doubt idealized, about a huge festive holiday gathering  – something like I imagine the …

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Ginger Peanut Cookie Bars

I am fully into Fall now – savouring the scent of apples baking, leaves turing a golden yellow, cinnamon, pumpkins, cozy sweaters, and of course the aroma of gingerbread! I love making gingerbread cookies, muffins cakes or bars that use molasses to add flavour and gorgeous golden colour to all my seasonal baking. These ginger …

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Fresh Roasted Tomato Sauce

Have you ever made fresh tomato sauce – I mean with fresh ripe tomatoes not canned? I recently started making this oven roasted sauce and have to say the difference is amazing!   With the abundance of tomatoes at this time of year  it’s super easy to do,  and trust me, you will notice a …

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