Made by MeghanLast Saturday we went berry picking at Driediger Farms in Langley. Â We picked strawberries, which were really close to being at the end of their season, and raspberries, which are just at the beginning of their season. Â We also grabbed four pounds of blueberries; already picked… we must have come home with almost 15 pounds […]
Chocolate was the request for this birthday, so I obliged with a fudge chocolate cake, chocolate cream cheese icing, chocolate flowers (from Chocolate Arts) Â and a little bit of fresh local strawberry compote. Here are the two cake halves, the strawberry filling and the chocolate cream cheese icing, which, I must admit, I (heavily) sampled. […]
This is the sixth episode of my web series SiftingRealities.  At the end of episode 4, Belinda seems to think she’s got this whole “sifting” thing under control, but does she?  Oh, those are shortbread cookies she is making and eating in the final scene… I’ll post the recipe later on today.
These cookies are featured in SiftingRealities Episode Four: NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE (more info in post below). Â They are super easy. Â No mixmaster needed. Â Just mix everything in the pot that you use to melt the butter. Melt the butter, remove pan from heat, and mix all the ingredients straight into the pot by […]
In our fifth episode of SiftingRealities, Belinda attempts to exert some sort of control over the craziness she thinks her brain is projecting… if the pills won’t work perhaps she can find away to stop the other realities from bleeding into her own… “I’m not as judgemental as you always make me seem.” Â Ah, Marie […]
As seen in SiftingRealities: Episode Three: ZOMBIE IN THE GARDEN (see post below for more info) Belinda, not knowing what to do with Annie once she has rescued her from the back yard, defaults to her comfort zone: baking, specifically, she bakes gingerbread cookies. Â Here is the recipe I (therefore she) uses: The dough (ready […]
These are the cookies featured in SiftingRealities: Episode Two: GUN IN MY TOILET (more info can be  found in the previous post).  In the episode, Rich thinks Belinda is presenting the cookies as a peace offering of sorts, but ends up just stealing her plate of comfort food.  The macaroons in the episode are sans […]
In lieu of the 2nd Baking with the Director episode (which we decided to not shoot so we could launch episode 2 of SiftingRealities) here is the recipe for the cookies that are featured in episode one: MAN IN MY BED (more details in previous post). Â Of ALL the cookies I bake these are my […]
Belinda wakes to find a man (DAVE), who really shouldn’t be in her bed. Issue: Dave really believes he belongs in Belinda’s (or is that Linda’s?) bed. Cookies: CHOCOLATE CHIP PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
At the beginning of March, we treated ourselves to a trip to the Wick Inn in Tofino for Michael’s birthday and, there, Sunday morning, I indulged in a fresh baked croissant with house made strawberry jam. SO GOOD! Now, I can’t actually digest white flour, so this was a huge, but tasty, risk for me […]