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Any Fruit Biscuit Cobbler

November 27, 2020 By Korena in the Kitchen 1 Comment

Back in August, this was the first baking recipe I managed to make from scratch, start to finish, since Max was born, and this belated post is a testament to how hard it is to get almost anything else done when you are caring for a baby! I first discovered this cherry biscuit cobbler last year and couldn’t wait to make it again with different fruit fillings. The biscuits themselves are like perfect tea time scones, light and perfectly tender, and when combined with jammy fruit and optional but highly recommended ice cream or whipped cream, the whole thing tastes like a cross between a pie and a shortcake.

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Filed Under: Fruit, Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes Tagged With: baking, biscuits, cobbler, dessert, fruit, recipe

Strawberry Balsamic Pie

September 1, 2018 By Korena in the Kitchen 3 Comments


Recently, the Food52 Baking Club had The Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book as our cookbook of the month, which means that I now have three gorgeous pies to share with you. I don’t own this cookbook and couldn’t justify adding to my collection (but that might change… #cookbookhoarder), but I managed to find several recipes online, and after making two of their pies I was convinced to finally join our local regional library so I could get my hands on the actual book!

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Fruit, Recipes Tagged With: baking, balsamic vinegar, dessert, fruit, pastry, pie, recipe, strawberries

Fancy Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

July 27, 2017 By Korena in the Kitchen 2 Comments

I’m a sucker for a beautiful pie, and especially a strawberry rhubarb one, so even though rhubarb season may be nearing an end, I had to share this pie I made a while back. I love love love rhubarb pie, and this one is a riff on Anne Dimock’s Straight-Up Rhubarb Pie as seen on Food52 – which is a damn good rhubarb pie and needs no embellishment – but when I made this one, the very first strawberries of the season were also hitting the grocery store and I couldn’t resist.

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Fruit, Recipes Tagged With: baking, dessert, fruit, pastry, pie, recipe, rhubarb, strawberry

Apple, Pear and Quince Speculoos Crumble

November 16, 2016 By Korena in the Kitchen Leave a Comment

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I got Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi for my birthday this summer and spent about three days straight reading it from cover to cover. By the time I was done, I had bookmarked so many recipes that it looked like this:

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Filed Under: Fruit, Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes Tagged With: amaretto cookies, apple, baking, crumble, dessert, fruit, pear, quince, speculoos

Jamie Oliver’s Charming Eccles Cakes

November 24, 2015 By Korena in the Kitchen 3 Comments

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We recently upgraded our cable TV situation and we now get a channel that plays a lot of Jamie Oliver shows, which is just fine by me. A little while ago we watched the Jamie’s Great Britain episode where he visits Yorkshire and makes eccles cakes: little puff pastry rounds traditionally filled with currants. Normally this kind of thing doesn’t appeal to me – too mincemeat-y – but I remembered back to the tiny delicious eccles cake I had at Abkhazi Garden and how it tasted exactly like Christmas, and suddenly I was consumed by the desire make Jamie’s eccles cakes, which include apples and a good dose of spice and citrus zest.

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Filed Under: Fruit, Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes Tagged With: baking, Christmas, citrus, eccles cakes, fruit, puff pastry, recipe

The Canadian Food Experience Project: Making Pie

September 12, 2013 By Korena in the Kitchen 9 Comments

IMG_5741The Canadian Food Experience Project began June 7 2013. As we share our collective stories through our regional food experiences, we hope to bring global clarity to our Canadian culinary identity.

So, I’m a few days late for this month’s Canadian Food Experience Project, the theme of which is “My Most Cherished Canadian Food Recipe”, but better late than never, right? I’ve already written about my scone recipe, which is probably my most cherished one, but making pie – pastry in particular – is a close second. And when I’m thinking of Canadian recipes, there’s only one thing that comes to mind: Canadian Living.

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Fruit, Recipes Tagged With: baking, Canadian cuisine, fruit, pastry, pie, recipe, summer, The Canadian Food Experience Project

Plum Coffee Cake

October 13, 2012 By Korena in the Kitchen 18 Comments

When late summer/early fall hits and I start seeing dark purple plums showing up in the grocery store and at the farmers’ markets, all I want to do is make plum coffee cake – which, contrary to the name, doesn’t actually have any coffee in it. Instead, it contains plums (of course) and a cinnamon struesel topping, the combination of which is much more than just the sum of its parts.

My Nana had a recipe for a great plum coffee cake, but unfortunately neither my Mum nor I could find it anywhere. Luckily I found a pretty similar recipe on the internet, and it came out exactly the way I was hoping: moist, deep cake studded with jammy puddles of plum, topped with crumbly struesel and finished off with a drizzle of lemony glaze. So good as a mid-morning pick-me-up, or mid-afternoon snack, or dessert, or pre-bedtime nibble…

We had our first “fall” day a few days ago, and while I made this cake while it was still warm and sunny, it is definitely an appropriately cozy treat for cool, crisp weather. This makes a large amount of cake, but Nate and I weren’t complaining. Plus it meant I had some to take to my co-workers, who weren’t complaining either…

Plum Coffee Cake with Cinnamon Struesel

Adapted from The Kitchn. Makes a 9″ x 13″ cake. I used tiny purple Damson plums, but use any kind you want – we had an Italian prune plum tree growing in our yard when I was a kid and they made excellent coffee cake. Also, I used frozen leftover struesel from making muffins to top the cake, so the final product according to the recipe as written might look slightly different than mine.

Preheat oven to 350˚F. Grease a 9″ x 13″ baking pan and set aside.

Depending on how big they are, pit and cut into quarters or sixths:

about 20 small, ripe plums (or equivalent – the more, the better, in my opinion!)

Set aside.

In a large bowl, cream together:

3/4 cup soft, unsalted butter

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

One at a time, beat in:

3 eggs

Stir in:

1 1/2 cups plain yogurt

1 tsp vanilla

In a smaller bowl, mix together:

3 cups all purpose flour (I used 2 cups all purpose and 1 cup whole spelt)

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

Sift the flour mixture over the wet ingredients and fold with a spatula to combine thoroughly.

Spread half the batter in the prepared pan and top it with half the plums, cut side up. Gently spread the other half of the batter on top and cover it with the remaining plums.

For the struesel topping, combine in a small bowl:

1/2 cup melted unsalted butter

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup all purpose flour

Mix until crumbly, then sprinkle evenly over the top of the cake. Bake in the preheated 350˚F oven for about 60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with a few moist crumbs sticking to it. Let cool for about 15 minutes.

In a glass measuring cup, combine:

1 1/2 cups icing sugar

1 tbsp lemon juice

Stir in enough milk to make a not-too-runny glaze, and drizzle it over the baked coffeecake. Serve warm or at room temperature. It will keep, covered in plastic wrap at room temperature, for a few days.

Filed Under: Breakfast & Brunch, Cakes & Pies, Fruit, Recipes Tagged With: autumn food, baking, brunch, cinnamon struesel topping, coffee cake, fall food, fruit, plums, recipe

Raspberry-Lemon-Poppyseed Muffin Cakes

July 12, 2012 By Korena in the Kitchen 5 Comments

Seeing local strawberries in the store is a sure sign that summer is here, but to me, it is the raspberries that signal its true arrival. Last summer I got nostalgic about blackberries, but really, it’s all about the raspberries. My mum used to grow reapberries in her garden and I loved eating them straight off the bush, still warm from the sun, sweet and tangy and so good, and now, they taste like summer to me. BC raspberries are finally in stores and I have been shelling out the $4 or $5 per pint to get me some summery goodness. The only problem is that they don’t keep and I needed to find something to do with them besides eating them by the handful. Enter: Raspberry-Lemon-Poppyseed Muffin Cakes….

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Filed Under: Breakfast & Brunch, Cakes & Pies, Fruit, Recipes Tagged With: baking, brunch, cupcakes, food, fruit, lemon poppyseed, muffins, raspberry, recipe, summer

Strawberry Rhubarb Skillet Clafoutis

July 3, 2012 By Korena in the Kitchen 16 Comments

The move is over and we have settled into our temporary new home – temporary because (fingers crossed!) we have plans in the works for bigger, better things. I have not really taken the new kitchen for a spin yet, but I’m looking forward to it. It’s bigger and better laid-out than the kitchen in our last place, which was a galley-style layout that could only accommodate one person and had barely any usable counter space:

The kitchen on a good day (there was usually a dish rack taking up valuable real estate above the dishwasher).

Not that I’m knocking small kitchens – I know you can do a lot in them and I’ve survived in an even smaller one – but a little extra space is so nice. …

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Fruit, Recipes Tagged With: baking, cake, clafoutis, dessert, French, fruit, recipe, rhubarb, spring, strawberry, summer

Daring Bakers: Challah Back Y’all!

May 27, 2012 By Korena in the Kitchen 77 Comments

May’s Daring Bakers’ Challenge was pretty twisted – Ruth from The Crafts of Mommyhood challenged us to make challah! Using recipes from all over, and tips from “A Taste of Challah,” by Tamar Ansh, she encouraged us to bake beautifully braided breads.

After this challenge, I can’t say “challah” without thinking “holla!”. I had so much fun with this one!

I made three different kinds of challah: plain honey white challah, whole wheat challah filled with apples, cinnamon, and maple syrup, and sourdough challah. Even more fun than all the different varieties were the different braiding techniques that Ruth, our host, encouraged us to try. I went for a six-strand braid, a five-strand braid, and a four-strand braided round. If you’ve never shaped bread like this before, challah is a great way to start: the dough was really easy to work with and good for braiding….

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Filed Under: Bread, Daring Bakers / Daring Kitchen Challenges, Recipes Tagged With: 4-strand braided round, 5-strand braid, 6-strand braid, baking, bread, challah, Daring Bakers, filled challah, fruit, grains, honey white challah, recipe, sourdough challah, whole wheat challah, yeast

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