It’s afternoon in late August and the air is just barely starting to cool, bringing with it reminders of Fall. Oma and I are skipping down her road, each with an empty bucket on one arm in merry pursuit of the blackberries growing wild down around the corner. You can smell them before you seeRead more
After my Mom passed one of the hardest things to go through was her recipe books. Filled with handwritten recipes for all kinds of dishes both savoury and sweet, I diligently went through them one at a time, deciding which ones to keep. I stumbled across quite a few recipes in her collection, like thisRead more
Today would have been my Mom’s 62nd birthday. And this Hazelnut Mocha Spelt Torte would have been her birthday cake. Why? Because every year when my Mom and her sister were little my Oma would make two of these cakes (albeit smaller versions) to celebrate their birthdays which are a mere 20 days apart. OmaRead more
One of the last things I went through of my Mom’s was her recipe book. Recipes are like little treasures to me so you can imagine how much my Mom’s recipes mean to me. In that moment I was on the hunt for a recipe I knew existed, but that no one has made forRead more
Where have the last two months gone? It sure doesn’t feel like it has been that long since I’ve posted a new recipe. I have certainly been baking since April, but have had ZERO energy to put into this blog. I know my Mom’s ongoing struggle with recovery from cancer has definitely had an impactRead more
I’ve been struggling for days now with what to write about this Bavarian Walnut Spelt Stollen. It started out all happy and joyful until I realized that what I was writing was not in alignment with how I felt. To be honest, the past few weeks have been rough. Between the ups and down of homeRead more
It’s amazing to me the phenomenal change a simple little adjustment can make to a recipe… take this apricot quark cheesecake for instance. The first time I made it, for some strange reason, I decided to put the apricots on the bottom between the crust and the filling. I thought it would look neat to seeRead more
Don’t let those maraschino cherries on top fool you, this is nothing like a black forest cake you find at the grocery store and nothing like most of the recipes you will find online! Unlike the chocolate cake and maraschino cherry laden versions at the store, the recipe for this one originates from the back ofRead more
Down the street and around the corner is our 85 year old neighbour whose prune plum tree towers above the house and all the other fruit trees sprinkled around the backyard. Mom and I headed out in the heat of the afternoon with buckets and a box to scale the tree and pick ourselves sillyRead more
Sometimes you just want cake… you NEED cake. It’s not anyone’s birthday, anniversary, special day, event or even Cake Day (every November 26th if you wanted to know 😉 ) but you make cake anyways. This was that cake for me. A little vanilla, a little chocolate, dense but also moist and quite pretty whenRead more
Last year when the rhubarb started poking its head above the ground my Mom told me how she used to dip the end of a stalk in sugar and munch away on it like that when she was a child. Odd, I thought, but what the hey, I’ll give it a try. Uh nope. TastedRead more