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Continue reading →: Lemon Meringue Coconut Macaroon Tarts
Lemon curd. Toasted meringue. Coconut macaroon. What’s not to love? (I told you there’d still be plenty of butter and sugar in these parts… no flour in this one though!) In the course of making these little tarts, the only thing I didn’t really love was that for some reason,…
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Continue reading →: Leek and Bacon Quiche with Wholegrain Pastry
Nate and I had a pretty quiet Easter weekend at home, so instead of a big Easter Sunday dinner, I made a quiche with leek and bacon, a dish of scalloped potatoes, and a green salad (and dessert, of course – that post is coming!). I was lucky enough to…
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Continue reading →: Whole Grain & Flax Buttermilk Pancakes
I’ve ordered buttermilk pancakes in restaurants many times and I’ve never really been able to taste the difference between them and regular pancakes. But once again I had a carton of buttermilk in the fridge leftover from a baking project, and buttermilk pancakes seemed like a good way to use…
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Continue reading →: Chocolate Porter Sourdough Hot Cross Buns
Happy Easter! I hope the Easter Bunny brought you all lots of chocolate. :) This Easter I wanted to make some special hot cross buns (as in, more special than these or these). I was thinking something along the lines of “hot cross bunnies” (haha, I’m so punny… bunny… sorry)…
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Continue reading →: Cream Cheese Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting, Take 2: Success!
Almost two years ago, I made a wedding cake for my good friend and frosted it with cream cheese Swiss meringue buttercream. The cake turned out great, but the frosting was another story. Turns out that cream cheese doesn’t work so well as a replacement for butter, which I realized…
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Continue reading →: Daring Bakers: Beet Red Velvet Cake
Ruth from Makey-Cakey was our March 2013 Daring Bakers’ challenge host. She encouraged us all to get experimental in the kitchen and sneak some hidden veggies into our baking, with surprising and delicious results! OK, here comes the FOURTH cake post this month! My goodness. I’ve been mildly obsessed with…
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Continue reading →: Breakfast at The Old Fork in Duncan, BC
Since moving away from Victoria, Nate and I have bemoaned the fact that there were no great breakfast places in the area. “Going for breakfast” is a Big Deal in Victoria, which is home to many breakfast joints, all of which have lineups out the door by 9 am on…
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Continue reading →: Sourdough Banana Bourbon Upside Down Cake
This might be the most unattractive cake I’ve ever made, which is both disappointing and hilarious. Disappointing because the pictures from the recipe I based it on are quite pretty, but somehow it didn’t translate (more on that later). Hilarious because, as my darling Nate pointed out when he went…
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Continue reading →: Friday Night Pizza
Every couple Fridays, Nate and I make homemade pizza for dinner. This is one of the rare times we are actually in the kitchen making dinner together (something I would like to do more often), me stretching out the dough, Nate shredding cheese and slicing toppings, deciding together what to…
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I’m Korena: cook, baker, dirty-dishes-maker. My favourite things include flour, butter, sugar, and chocolate.
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