Maple Baked Beans with Sausage

Well, after last weeks short but intense summer it's back to more wintery temperatures. Brr. More than a few little plants ar…

Chocolate-Peanut Crisp Squares

Oh dear, more snicky-snacky goodies. I really ought to be on a diet. I've usually made these with crisp rice cereal, but in t…

Char-Siu Style Pork Ribs

Mmm, ribs. I admit to being a "pig" for ribs. It's a good thing good ribs can be a little hard to get hold of. My …

Rhubarb Tapioca

I'm on a tapioca kick at the moment, and why not? It's about as simple a fruit-based pudding as you can do. You have to l…

Sunflower- Honey Granola

Granola is another one of those things I don't make very often. I enjoy eating it, but I don't like the smell as it bakes…

Blood Orange Tapioca Pudding

More purple moosh. I didn't think I was going to post this, so I just glopped it into dishes without regard to how photogenic…

Rum & Raisin Sweet Potatoes

We liked these - the rum and raisin sauce added a nice touch of sweetness to the sweet potatoes without making them too sweet and…

Beet & Grapefruit Salad

I got some grapefruit on sale a while back, and forgot to eat them promptly; I am so unused to having them around. It turns out t…

Rolled Spice Cookies

Another variation on the rolled cookie theme. This one takes the flavours of Lebkuchen, and it's probably my favourite versio…

Rolled Lemon Cookies

It isn't very often that you see a cookie recipe where the sugar is optional. The thing is, though, if you just use the honey…

Buckwheat Lebkuchen

Lebkuchen are a traditional German Christmas cookie, made with honey and spices. It's not unusual to see recipes that call fo…

A Tiny Batch of Oatmeal Macaroons

When my grandmother died, a little handwritten notebook full of her recipes made its way to me. This is one of the recipes that w…

Honey-Mustard Salad Dressing

I like this as a nice, quick, simple dressing; a little change from my more usual vinaigrette. For some reason I particularly lik…

Maple Layer Cake

This recipe started with a 'Dark Layer Cake' recipe in the 1911 Canadian Farm Cookbook . I tried it because it had been s…

Maple Syrup Boiled Frosting

This is, of course, a variation of Seven Minute Frosting , made with maple syrup instead of sugar. When I made the Seven Minute F…

Stovetop Honey-Mustard Chicken

Haven't had any chicken in ages, but Costco had some thighs on sale this week and I succumbed. We both really like this, and …

Maple Cream Puffs

So rich and decadent I'm not sure they're even legal. A lot of people think that cream puffs and eclairs must be difficul…

Maple Flan (or Creme Caramel)

There are a few, faint signs out there that Spring will arrive someday. The birds have changed their tunes from random chatter t…

Roasted Maple Butternut Squash and Pears

Eeek! I forgot to take a picture of this dish. Fortunately, one of my shots of the ham had quite a bit of the squash in it as wel…