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These chewy biscuits are perfectly spiced and are a cross between a shortbread and a gingerbread. You don't have to roll them in spiced ...

Even though things are considerably different from last year and who knows what Halloween or any holiday will look like for the remainder of...

Christmas Eve , after we had our usual nibbles an drinkies at our local pub and a walk to enjoy the festive lights; we settle for some ho...

I have tried a few chocolate shortbread recipes and have not been satisfied until I tried this recipe. I suggest following Nigella's ...

Sugar cookies are an effort which can be made with one or many idle hands at work however there is a bit of an ease with a classic reci...

Pumpkin pie, a holiday favourite and an flavour that sums up the autumnal season. My daughter helped create this classic dessert. She w...

Christmas Eve we did a late night simple savoury snack of a bacon sandwich and apple slices because we had visited the local pub, earlier...

A champagne cocktail that is sweet, lively and suitable this Holiday season. A great substitution for a Buck Fizz.  Red-Nosed Rehboc...

I had heard about Crosstown Doughnuts months before we left for London and was eagerly  waiting to find them. I was pleasantly surprised ...

Canada Day is this weekend and celebrating 150 years is a monumental one; and in the culinary or grocery departments we seemed to have been...

We started New Year's Eve off with an early cocktail... the Ritz Bijou. Mellow with a crisp bite. Will post the recipe soon.   ...

My husband and I had fun making these last night. Ran out of chocolate sprinkles therefore the remaining rum balls were dressed with mult...

Roses are red, and violets are the colour of our rice krispie treats! Today the kidlets created this Easter inspired treat. They worked t...

I thought I would post about this cookbook before we get into the throws of the Holiday spirit and the blissful overindulgences. Christma...

I like to make all sorts of different flavours of shortbread and this one I came up with on a whim. I had some candy canes that were brok...

While replenishing some baking items at the local bulk shop I purchased some dried dates. Not really sure what I was going to do with the...

This cookbook seems very fitting seeing how turkey may be the choice meal around Christmas time. In Charles Dicken's A Christmas Caro...

I know Christmas is on it's way when the Fortnum and Mason order arrives. Nothing beats carefully opening and rummaging through the p...

I did make it back into the kitchen to whip up a batch of fudge. This time chocolate. And as you can tell from the photo I have had som...

Christmas time has it's usual suspects at the dinner and dessert table. Wade through all the mincemeat tarts, fruit cake, shortbread,...