Happy 12 Days of Christmas!
I’m super excited to try something new on the blog this year, and I really hope you like it.
Tag / chocolate
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat and you need to stop eating those stodgy, stale, store-bought marshmallows and make your own!
Picture it now, it’s the first cold snap of the year, you make yourself a rich, comforting hot chocolate to stave off those fears of endless snowstorms and c
Phew! What a week, hunh. I don’t know anyone – whether they’re here in Canada, in New Zealand, Australia or just south of us in the States – who isn’t reeling from the political results that took place this week.
I recently caught up with a dear, dear, friend. You know the one. You probably have one just like them. You think of them fondly and can’t for the life of you remember why you don’t stay in touch anymore.
Salted caramel brioche buns, chocolate mug cake, mint chocolate slice, blender chocolate mousse…that’s all in one week folks. That’s right, winter’s here, and I’m on a kitchen rampage.
At home in Toronto I spent countless blissful alone hours knee-deep in dough, pastry and melted chocolate, clearing my mind and expressing myself (and expanding my waistline?) through food.
Back home in Canada, it could be said that one of our biggest food secrets is how they get the soft, creamy caramel inside the Caramilk bar. Here in Australia, they’re keeping a much bigger secret: The secret of the Lamington.
That’s a cookie for all you non-Australians. It’s short for biscuit.
