Long before the restaurant and the subsequent cookbooks of the same name, there was a talented chef, Lesley Stowe, who made desserts for some of the finest restaurants in Vancouver. This particular dessert was created for Bishops Restaurant, which for over thirty years has been one of the best, if not the best, restaurants in the…
Category: Sweet Eats
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Biscuits (Pumpkin Cookies)
A few years ago, my husband had an American colleague who kindly passed along this recipe from his childhood. We had bonded on our respective Thanksgiving festivities and traditions, and more importantly over the food served up over this time. My favourites are still pumpkin pie and pumpkin cheesecake – although I am open to…
Purple Protein Açai Bowl
When I was in New York earlier this year, I was amazed at the vast selection of healthy food shops! Dotted all over the place are fabulous juice and smoothie bars, deli’s and salad shops. I got to eat some amazing food and was particularly influenced by the types of açai bowls I could find. I…
Pumpkin Spice Pancakes
Pumpkin spice was almost unheard of before Starbucks introduced their Pumpkin Spice Lattes here in the UK. Buying Pumpkin itself was a near impossible feat unless you went to an American Food stockist in some remote part of the city (Loopy Pintos comes to mind here in Edinburgh). Thankfully, you can now find tinned pumpkin…
Basic Bread Recipe
For as long as I can recall, my mother would bake our bread each week. Three loaves and half a dozen rolls. It was bliss! Obviously freshly baked bread is divine but there was something about the crust of her bread which was just amazing. We must have been the only children I know of…
Florentines
As a child, the more elaborate the dessert, the more it enticed me! Tall glass cups filled with layers of cream and pudding garnished with sprinkles and treats or tonnes of butter-cream covering a sponge cake. They were my Achilles heel! Usually these wouldn’t live up to expectation and I would be left wanting, even…
Morning Glory Muffin
In my lifelong quest to find a palatable breakfast (all before I found Açai bowls and smoothies) I found muffins. Not un-iced cupcakes, like my husband thinks they are. But real American-style muffins with some sort of fruit or vegetable worked through it. I have been made muffins for as long as I can remember. It was one…
Chocolate Cake (Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe)
Not so long ago, I was invited to the house of some dear friends for dinner. They happen to be vegetarian and with my dairy issues, they very kindly served me this amazing vegan cake. I don’t think I can honestly convey how lovely this cake is. We greedily ate our servings, despite being served…
Date Squares (Oat Date Bars)
I remember the first time I saw one of these. It was in the lunchbox of my childhood best friend, her mother was known for her amazing baking, and it didn’t look like the usual tempting treats she had. In fact, it looked plain boring! I think my first taste of it would come much…
Poppy Seed Cake (Lake Cake)
Poppy seed cake! I am so excited about this recipe, as it featured heavily in my upbringing. It was one of my mother’s signature recipes and was also famously referred to as “Lake Cake”, amongst some dear family friends. (This was because it was made most weekends for our visits to our lakeside cabin.) I…
Blueberry Crumble Cake
Much of my childhood was spent at our family lake-side cottage. Most weekends through the summer and a few through the winter. There were no other children nearby, so I spent much of my time at our neighbour’s (and dear friends) cabin, baking. This is almost certainly where I shaped my association with relaxation and…
Banana Bread Pancakes
We eat a LOT of bananas in this household. Usually we can consume about four bunches in a week. Easily! Now, there are five of us so I suppose it isn’t too hard when you consider each of us having one most days. However, every once in a while something seems to change and suddenly…
The Food Obsessive 