Food, Travel, and Cooking!
Here’s a delicious cake recipe from Victoria’s Don Genova, a journalist specializing in writing and broadcasting about food and travel, posted a few years ago that I’ve been making every Italian Prune Plum season. Makes one 9” Cake 1 cup fresh, full-fat ricotta cheese 1/3 cup olive oil 1 cup granulated sugar 1 Tbsp. freshly […]
When you see all the amazing, colourful winter squash at the farmer’s market you just know it’s time to begin baking with pumpkin! I only use muffins liners that are made from baking parchment as they come right away from the muffin and don’t leave behind any of the muffin goodness stuck to the paper […]
This cake is definitely my “new favourite” chocolate cake. So moist and so chocolatey! Best of all it got great reviewers from my tasters! I now make this cake in my recently acquired 6″ Bundt cake pan and reduce this recipe by half. Approx. 12 Servings 2 ¼ cups sifted unbleached flour ½ cup cocoa […]
Not every muffin has a story! A number of years ago, our friend, chef Urs, owned a fish shop/deli/catering business around the corner from where we live. The day I baked these muffins for the first time I thought “I’ll bet Urs would like to have one with his afternoon coffee”. Within an hour he was […]
For the past couple of years, in the fall, I’ve been making lovely little Coronation-Vin Santo grape cakes for dessert. And while doing a freezer tidy-up recently, I found a small bag of the grapes tucked away. Hmmm…well I don’t have enough to make the cakes but maybe I could turn them into muffins and […]
Getting a “leg-up” on my Christmas baking by starting with these buttery little morsels that have just a hint of anise flavour. They’re good keepers and freeze well! You can use either blanched or unblanched almonds to make the cookies. I’ve been baking these off and on for over 40 years…the original recipe is taped […]
Now I ask you, who doesn’t like a warm sticky cinnamon bun? It only takes a short time to put together the dough and then it’s just a quick matter to put together the filling and the mixture for the bottom of the pan that becomes the topping of the buns when turned out of […]
Mom made these every Christmas and we loved them so much. No secret that we got caught with your hands in the cookie jar on more than one occasion! So buttery and delicious! When I worked as a corporate chef, come Christmas season I must have made thousands of them both for the dining room […]
After receiving rave reviews all Christmas Season for these cookies that I’d not made for years for some unfathomable reason, I thought it was time I added it to my Oracibo recipes. The recipe for these absolutely wonderful little currant jelly filled beauties comes from the late Carol Field. I was unable to find my pastry […]
As both my hubby and I are of Scandinavian descent, this cake most definitely in our lane! It’s lovely to look at and absolutely delicious to eat and has been given the 2 thumbs up by our good friend Chef Andrea Carlson the owner of Burdock and Co. here in Vancouver and a recent recipient […]