Beautiful Calling

My tots love baking. Mommy The tots love to eat said baking. Isaac is particularly in love with watching the mixer spin around and around. Baking with littles is fun, time-consuming and messy. It’s also worth it. {did I mention it was messy?} Side note: The messy kitchen? That wasn’t actually from the Whoopie Pie [...]

I think the last time I made Carrot Cake was in 2009! Chloe has been asking for dessert. I peeked in the fridge, saw the bags of carrots and decided Carrot Cake was an order. 14 Karat Cake 2 cups flour 2 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 tsp salt 2 tsp cinnamon 2 cups sugar [...]

This fall we visited friends in Sioux Lookout, the Hochstedler family, where we had the most delightful dessert, Magic Bars. I asked for the super secret recipe and I’ve made it several times since returning home. Fast, easy and delicious! I figure it’s probably OK to share since I also found a version of it [...]

  Thanks to the Happy Housewife, I made Sundae Boxes as gifts for some friends this Christmas. It was fun and easy to put together and hopefully the recipients enjoyed them. In my box I put waffle bowls, caramel sauce, chocolate sprinkles, gummy worms, crushed candy canes, maraschino cherries and sugar sprinkles. I wanted to [...]

Gather together: 3 cups of all purpose flour 1 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour 1 cup of quick cook oats (plus a bit for sprinkling) 2 TBSP of baking powder 2 TBSP of sugar 1 pound of cold diced butter 1/2 cup of milk 1/2 cup of real maple syrup (doesn’t taste the same [...]

I made brownies in mini loaf pans. I used almonds instead of walnuts since I didn’t have any walnuts. They don’t taste quite the same. My aunty and uncle are visiting from Northern Ontario. My aunt is the one who gave me the foolproof scalloped potato recipe I use all the time. Anyhow, she brought [...]

This was my favorite breakfast growing up. I have several friends who can attest to it’s tastiness though they may have been a little hesitant to try them at first. {Thanks Amy for trusting me all those years ago}. I made them for all my friends when we had sleepovers. And you know 15+ years [...]

I have had a love affair with waffles lately; can’t get enough of them! Or perhaps it’s the butter and real maple syrup that they get dowsed in before I eat them! We have a standard Hamilton Beach Waffle Baker. It works good enough, though I would like a double waffle maker someday. Anyway, my [...]

Summer 2010 – My handsome daddy and his fish I grew up in Sioux Lookout, Ontario – known for it’s fishing and hunting. It’s an amazingly beautiful area and I am blessed to have an Aunt and Uncle who still live there on a beautiful house by the lake. We’ve been up visiting a few [...]

  This past fall Chloe went with her cousins to a farm and came home with dried corn on the cob. It decorated our sideboard for Thanksgiving and then sat in the sideboard until I discovered it this spring. As soon as Chloe saw it, she wondered when we would eat it. Well, a rainy [...]