Another Christmas has come and gone, but all the same Merry Christmas. This year my cousin, husband, and baby girl welcomed us into their home, and we were joined by my aunt and uncle. Wanting to continue our Christmas Table setting tradition, Mom and I […]

It’s Thanksgiving weekend, our favourite Holiday. The weather is a little cooler, the warm autumn sunlight is coming through the windows, the roast is sizzling away in the oven, and the house smells like all the delicious food we will be eating. It has been […]

As it turns out, waiting six months for our vanilla extract was not easy but we did our best to remain patient. Mom diligently shaked the extract every week as suggested, and we watched as it turned more and more amber in colour. When the […]

We took an unintentional break from posting but have every intention of continuing with our little blog. A lot has been going in our lives and somehow instead of weeks it’s been months since we last posted something. When we set out to do this […]

Today’s hack comes from my father’s side of the family. Dad loves cake and every year when his birthday comes up in June there is lots and lots of cake. As a child he would ask my grandma to make him angel food cake, and […]

Mom is the cook in the family so when I moved out the first time in my mid twenties I realized that although I spent lots of time helping in the kitchen, I didn’t know how to make any of her meals myself. When I […]

I bet you thought we hadn’t gotten around to doing a Valentine’s Day table setting this year. Well as you can see, we did! We like to find time to do something together as a family for Valentine’s Day and typically we would have done […]

Cherry Nanaimo has not been in our lives long but has quickly become a go to recipe when we want something sweet. Mom had made it for the family when I was just little, but I can’t recall having it until a friend’s going away […]

We took a little time off from our blog this January to rest up and decide what we wanted to post next. Good thing too because we came up with a winner. In our first year of blogging Mom and I created two unique Nanaimo […]

The Christmas season has come and gone, and we can hardly believe it! Like Thanksgiving this holiday season seemed to creep up on us quickly. We got the baking done with plenty of time to spare but the tree came up a little late. Last […]