It was a certain someone’s birthday yesterday but instead of making an entire birthday cake (that two people would have to eat entirely) I decided to make mini apple pies. I used to feel that making apple pie was extremely difficult and delicate work. Difficult because you have to thinly slice a billion apples, and [...]
Archive for the ‘Birthday’ Category
Mini Apple Pies
October 28, 2011
Heart of Darkness Brownies
May 18, 2010
Some days you just feel like your body can’t continue to hold and support all the day’s worries, late lunches, mistakes, and over-all fatigue. All you really want to do after work is curl up on the couch and watch re-runs of Family Guy. A few days ago at work, I volunteered to bake brownies [...]
Chicken Parmesan
October 28, 2009
Jay celebrated his 30th birthday yesterday and I took him to see the Body Worlds exhibit at the Science Centre. I’d never been and I was beyond impressed. After walking around for hours, looking at the posed remains of humans, we headed back home to eat. I made a very simple dinner of chicken Parmesan, [...]
Timpano!
October 18, 2009
Last night, a friend celebrated his 30th birthday and, like most foodies, he wanted to make dinner. He chose to make timpano, something he and his fiancée saw in a movie called The Big Night. It’s basically a sort of pizza dough stuffed with pasta, sauce, sausage, meat, hard boiled eggs, cheese, and I don’t [...]
The weekend of gorging
October 12, 2009
Well, I’m almost positive I gained at least 15 pounds this weekend. I’ve eaten so much I’m kinda sick of looking at food…well, not really haha. Unfortunately, because I ate so much, and drank so much too, my brain is a little groggy so I will only copy the recipes and post pictures of what [...]
Perfect Party Cake
September 21, 2009
I believe it was over a year ago that my friend sent me a link to this Perfect Party Cake (recipe here from Tartelette). Since then I had been looking for an excuse to make the cake but I could never seem to get around to making it. The recipe is originally from Baking From [...]
