There are some recipes that are quintessentially Christmas recipes and, in our household Nuts and Bolts is one of them. When the smell of them baking wafts through the house I am immediately transported back to my childhood. I can still see my mom pulling […]

Chocolate and ginger may seem like an odd combination to some, but to our family chocolate covered gingers are a birthday and holiday staple. Boxes of dark chocolate gingers from a certain Canadian Chocolatier well known in western Canada are exchanged between Mom’s siblings on […]

There is snow on the ground, not a lot but enough to let us know there are cold days ahead which I for one am totally okay with. Cold weather means baking, baking and more baking in our house. Today however we are not sharing […]

One Sunday morning when my mother was catching up with one of her brothers, he mentioned that he loved my grandma’s banana bread.  We thought this was interesting because Mom had no memory of her making banana bread. So, we turned to Grandma’s recipe box […]

Halloween has always been a big deal in our household especially because my brother’s birthday is the day after Halloween. Every second year when we were in elementary my parents would host epic Halloween themed birthday parties for my brother. Not an inch of our […]

Mom was feeling a little nostalgic yesterday as we celebrated Thanksgiving. We were in the kitchen making Whipped Potatoes and our Pumpkin Pie Custard while listening to Guess Who on my father’s vintage stereo equipment. It brought forth memories of her working together with her […]

It is officially fall and we have one last recipe to share before Thanksgiving. Mom has this theory that the only reason you make a roast meal is to get the drippings to turn into gravy and enjoy with potatoes. As much as I love […]

It may not officially be fall yet but it sure does feel like our favourite season, and with Thanksgiving only a few short weeks away we wanted to share another delicious recipe for dessert. This year the theme seems to be baking untraditional versions of […]

A trip to her grandmother’s always meant a delicious treat for mom, either cookies, cake or often time pie. My great grandmother was an excellent pie maker, as was my grandmother and my mother. Grandma and mom even worked in a bakery when I was […]

September 5th is an important day in our household as it’s my parents wedding anniversary. This year they are celebrating 34 years of marriage. They like to joke and say it’s been 34 long, hard years, but although long and hard, they have spent it […]