I was 19 years old when I moved from my hometown of Bellingham, Washington to Vancouver, British Columbia. I went from living in the forest, in the home that my parents built before I was born (where they still live today) to living in the concrete jungle of downtown Vancouver. For those of you who…
The warm weather has finally hit and I could not be more excited. My birthday is in the summer and it has always been my favorite season. When I was a child I loved the summer because there was no school, I got to stay up late, and almost every single day was spent at…
Growing up, my family never used cast iron pans. We used normal aluminum or steel pans and that’s all I really knew to use. About 5-6 years ago, Crystal and I inherited two old cast iron pans that belonged to Crystal’s grandparents. Both are 10-inch pans, one made in Korea and one Favorite Ware. Turns out…
For the last couple of months I’ve been on a weight loss journey. One phase of the program that I was on had me eating a very low fat diet. I was allowed to have lean meat and fish but no oil. It caused me to completely re-look at the way I was eating and…
Whole roasted chickens… It’s usually a weekend recipe right? Most roasted chicken recipes take almost 2 hours to make and doing that on a weeknight…. well… Nobodies Got Time For Dat! Oh, but now you do! The Hubs and I discovered a secret a few years ago that allows us to cook whole roasted chickens any day…
I love this time of year. Summer has always been my favorite time of the year, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve become a bit less tolerant of the heat. I love late summer and early fall because the weather is still beautiful, but the temperature seems to cool down a bit (bye bye noisy…
I love summer. The recipes that you can make with fresh local produce are unlimited. Bean and I have a game that we play during the summer. We go to our local farmers stand and I tell her that we can get ANYTHING we want as long as the sign says LOCAL on it. Bean…
I adore baking with cast iron. There is something rustic yet modern about serving a dessert made in a cast iron frying pan. Summer has officially arrived in Vancouver and the June strawberries are plentiful, delicious and begging to be turned into a delicious dessert. I decided to take my love for cast iron and…
One of my favorite treats in the whole world is a steaming mug of chai tea. Sweet, spicy, warm… it does the soul good. A few weeks ago when I shared my Cast Iron Skillet Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe, Shauna from Satori commented saying that one of her favorite desserts is a chai bread pudding from…
You may have noticed, I’m a bit cast iron skillet baking crazy lately. I’ve developed a serious addition to baking with my antique cast iron skillets. There is something about putting a cast iron skillet on the table with a beautiful, delicious, bubbling baked item in it. It has that “Ah” factor. It makes you…
I’m REALLY into baking with a cast iron skillet right now. For some reason, baking in a skillet gives your recipe an instant “Wow” factor. We’ve used our antique cast iron frying pans for several years now cooking savoury dishes, but just recently started baking desserts with them. If you don’t have a cast iron…
A few years ago my parents remodelled their kitchen, bought an induction cooktop and gave my sister and I their old pots and pans so they could replace them with an induction friendly set. Among the pots and pans they were getting rid of were two, very, very old, cast iron frying pans. To be…