Us bakers are gearing up to get baking our Christmas goodies! Aah…I can smell those mince tarts right now! Every time one of my recipes specifies candied fruit I feel so annoyed with what we have available to us here! All we can get these days, at least at retail level, are the chopped up […]
Month: November 2014
“Scrap” Soup
Or…what do you do when you walk into the butcher shop and staring back at you is a great deal on pork neck bones? My chef/neighbour knows exactly what to do and has been making pork broth for Asian noodle soups for her restaurant and who doesn’t love noodle soup? So we too follow her […]
Radio Kids
Being a child of the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, I grew up on radio. I remember distinctly when transistor radios were the hot new technology and us teens just had to have one glued to our ears…remember when there were no ear buds? Yup!! My San Diego cousin and I would mail our favourite radio station’s […]
What Will There Be This Year?
Today is the big day the Christmas cake I make every year for my San Diego cousin has just been mailed off to him! Fingers crossed it arrives safely, or should I say all in one piece, in a few days! And this now to write my list of what Christmas baking I’m going to […]