This year's trip up to Huntsville, Ontario for Thanksgiving saw fabulously warm weather.  Ya never know. Sometimes it rains. Once...

Sometimes you have over ripe peaches and you don't have time for a fancy pie! This time I made a galette, pretty fast and easy and I l...

...there's pie! Yep, it's that time of year, when apricots, peaches and blueberries, all grown in Ontario, are ripe at the same t...

 ...a Mercedes Benz? Always been one of my favourite tunes. Peter, who is general manager of a Mercedes Benz dealership, was celebrat...

 Harry loves motocross so I made him a cake that I thought would make him happy. Here's Harry with the cake and he did love ...

Lucky Marcel lives near the St. Lawrence River and goes fishing as often as he likes. For his birthday, his wife Lori asked me to make him...

To celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, I made a strawberry rhubarb (both  locally sourced, natch)  pie, and am celebrating with my sis...

 My friend Deb is an amazing photographer!  Wasn't I lucky to discover that she was the official photog at Joyce's 90th bir...

  My friend Mandy's grandma was celebrating her 90th birthday and I was asked to do her cake. Mandy told me that Joyce loves cats and ...

My friend Peter gave me a set of "Russian tips." I had seen them on various websites and figured it was time to give them a try....

Marthe called the other day to say that hubby Robert was celebrating a big birthday. He's a deer hunter and she wanted a cake in the s...

A friend of mine is having a granddaughter and was hosting a baby shower for her daughter. Since it's going to be a girl, we concentr...

  In the fall of 1999 I was feeding a stray calico cat. She was pregnant and had her five kittens on a shelf at our back door. Dad found th...

 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...