Greetings from Niagara-on-the-Lake! I bet you’re surprised to see a recipe posted this week. I almost didn’t plan on anything since we’re going to be married tomorrow, but I managed to find time on the weekend to make muffins and since their existence in our kitchen barely lasted two days, I thought it would be a crime if I didn’t take a few photos and schedule a posting of the recipe. I made them on a whim for an easy breakfast since the last few days have been pretty busy and it’s always nice to have a quick grab-and-go healthy snack.
Yes, I’m posting two chocolate recipes in a row. I blame all the DIY projects we did this past weekend. I swear, I never want to tie another ribbon bow again.
Besides cramping my fingers making endless bows, I’m also trying to break in my wedding day shoes. I’m realizing that this is something I should have started months ago, but there is no time like a week before the wedding.
That seems to be our motto lately. 🙂 You are looking at the King and Queen of Procrastination here, folks.
Trevor and I had a mild panic attack over the weekend when we logged into our WeddingWire account and the countdown kindly reminded us that it was 20 days until our wedding.
Ummmmm, say what? Seriously where did all this time go? Did we not just celebrate the 4-month before wedding date yesterday? (Not really, but you get the picture).
For the last couple of months, I’ve been working with the brilliant and talented Lindsay over at Purr Design to help make the scary leap from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress site. Not only did she transfer every single file and comment, she also helped streamline my recipe index and made my recipes much more printer and user friendly. You can even like, tweet and pin each post! After being stuck with the limitations of Blogger for the last 2 1/2 years, I’m pretty much leaping with joy over the amount of freedom I now have. The popular post listing on the side bar? All Lindsay. The fact that my tweets show up again on the blog? All Lindsay again! (PS: I plan on tweeting more, I promise!)
So have a look around and let me know what to think of the new look. I’m still in the process of formatting each and every of my almost 200 posts, but if anything doesn’t work, feel free to pop me an email or comment.
In the meantime, I have a special recipe to share. Special for you because its delicious and you don’t have to turn on your oven to make it, special for me because it’s part of a fun memory I have with one of my closest friends.
After weeks of off and on hot and cold weather, I believe it’s finally safe to say that it is officially summer in Toronto. There have been a few days of scorching temperatures and some heat advisory warnings that make me grateful to know that I get to spend the majority of my days in my air-conditioned office building. Our apartment doesn’t have such luxuries, but we did recently purchase a fancy stand-up fan that has been making the living room bearable.
With the return of summer, this also means that the kitchen oven will be off for the time being. For suppers, we’ve been relying a bit more on our slow cooker and have really taken to slow-cooked chicken. On one particular day, the chicken smelled so fantastic that I broke my oven-off rule and made these savoury salted rosemary buns. I’m such a rebel.
Canadian food blogger, baking and eating her way through life. Musical theatre fanatic. Personal finance nerd. Sometimes runner/yogi. Green smoothies are pretty amazing.
