that canadian girl

I came across this site last night and was fascinated by the concoctions some people managed to come up with! Gigantor Jaffa Cakes, one-foot-wide Toffee Pennies and even Samosas the size of your head! It’s Pimp my Snack! Rather than spend my Sunday slaving over supersized sugared goods, I think I’ll treat myself to the [...]

This Saturday will be the 51st Eurovision Song Contest, held in Athens, Greece. It’s a unique event for so many reasons, but mainly, it’s the one time of the year where each country agrees to making a complete fool of itself for the sake of “music”. While Terry Wogan’s classic commentary makes the event slightly [...]

Since I’ve hopelessly abandoned Sugar & Spice many moons ago, I’ll be posting food-related entries here until S&S rises from its ashes when I revive it. As it’s a long weekend, I really fancied cooking something nice and homemade for friends coming over for dinner Saturday night. I decided to go for an Italian theme, [...]

The baking grump is over – I’ve finally made the (very adapted version of) Daim Bars cake Clotilde I’ve wanted to make for a few days. Granted, not a Daim or Dime bar in sight, but rather some nutty nougat chocolate bars chopped in pieces, but the cupcakes are sooo yummy. They’re bound to make [...]

Grrr it’s Sunday afternoon, I’m in the mood for baking after reading Clotilde and Jen‘s amazing food blogs, doing part two of our Spring cleaning (of how many parts? I don’t know but it’s looking better every time!) and scheming since Friday to make muffins that resemble Clotilde’s Daim bars cake [Daim bars are like [...]

It’s cute, buzzing with conversations without being overly noisy, and no one’s making you feel guilty for having only a cup of green tea and a plate of spicy chips with garlic mayo (which, by the way, were very tasty!). I was planning on blogging about this place from the moment I walked in – [...]

The hungry programmer has the option to either learn to make this recipe or to work with me. Because I’m nice. And I make cookies for my team. Sometimes, anyways… Maybe Thursday if they’re good boys (and girls). PS – find the three errors for me, I couldn’t write a line of code to save [...]

So today, I could’ve done like any other Sunday and sat around watching tv, recovering from whatever we did on Saturday (which, in this instance, wasn’t much to be honest) and thinking about work the next day. …nothing quite like the smell of nice fresh homebaked peanut butter cookies… Granted I still ended up doing [...]

Mr. O is at it again! This time, he’s run off to Italy to learn to cook from the best! For once, I’ve managed to catch a TV series right at the beginning, and I highly recommend it to food addicts. Jamie and the infamous hippie van visited Sicily’s Palermo for a first cultural shock. [...]

I shouldn’t cross post everything from my food blog to here, but this summer favourite is highly recommended! Make sure you choose nice ripe avocados, they’ll be soooo much tastier! This is one of the best summer recipes I’ve seen in a long time, posted by Tequila Mockingbird. I’ve “cleaned up” the recipe format but [...]