Okay, I love to play with my food! I figured Valentine's Day would be a fun time to do this.  I invited Richard for a mid-week Valen...

You know it's spring when the fiddleheads poke their heads out of the ground, ready to be snapped off, fried in butter and lemon, sal...

I started with a cuppa coffee and waiting for my friend for lunch. To have a chocolate factory in our little town is remarkable...

Last night Richard and I had the pleasure of attending the Farm to Table Dinner, put on by our local (and favourite) eatery, The Quirky...

Last week I had the pleasure of teaching 10 kids how to decorate cookies. It was part of a week-long mini-chefs camp. At the end if the we...

This recipe ran in last week's Ottawa Citizen and since I have scads of chard in the garden, I figured I'd give it a try. Yummy! C...

We headed over to Montebello, QC to ChocoMotive , a chocolaterie and cchocolatemuseum housed in a former train station.  Th...

 Polar bear gingerbread cookies with warm scarves... ...or funky blue snowflake gingerbreads. How does one decide?

On Sunday we headed out to visit Smyth's Apple Orchard the place that grew the first McIntosh apple.  Inside there is a myriad of...