Recipes

This is my favourite new find from Low Carb with Jennifer.  Great recipes! Chocolate cake in less than 5 minutes. I put the solids together in a jar for my interview with Vanessa Vander Valk – CBC NB Shift’s special segment What’s Cooking (You can listen to the interview here.  I’m going to keep a few jars […]

Chocolate Clementine Muffins I was thrilled to be a guest on the CBC NB Radio 1 show Shift on 25 Jan 2024.  We talked about almond flour and how for me it was a gateway ingredient to alternative cooking.  I brought some muffins with me to the studio, including this recipe, modified from the Chocolate

I love this Tomato jam recipe that I found on Simply Gluten Free.  They use it as a dip for GF mac and cheese.  As I was preparing for a Murder Mystery Weekend, I was thinking of trying something different on my appetizer tray, and thought of this.  I usually have some thinly-sliced cheese that

Chocolate Zucchini Muffins Keto (5 net carbs per muffin), nut-free, sugar free, gluten free. Honestly, of course I tried this because I had extra zucchini, but they aren’t your typical zucchini muffins – they are yummy chocolate muffins that happen to have zucchini in them. And they are healthy and good for you.  Bonus! INGREDIENTS

Maple Syrups I don’t make my own maple syrup!  But I’ve learned a lot about maple syrup-making since moving to the area where almost every second farm has some kind of production.   In order for maple syrup to be sold as, well, maple syrup, it has to meet certain criteria. In Canada, maple syrup must

Roaring 20s B&B French Toast This really is my own recipe, and it all started with a Quarantined Crafters facebook group.  Someone posted a recipe for this wonderful cinnamon quick bread.  Someone commented that it was too bad that you couldn’t make French Toast with a quick bread because that would be amazing.  Challenge accepted!

Gluten-Free, Vegan INTRO I hate making pancakes because I’m not good at flipping them.  But I figured that I can’t really be a proper B&B and not have pancakes on the menu, so I try and discourage people from ordering them by saying they are gluten-free (some people erroneously think this means tasteless, lol).  But

UPDATE: Now that we are a bit more back to normal, the B&B is back to Bed AND Breakfast – and these muffins are often on the menu. I was going to remove the paragraph below but decided to keep it as a bit of a history of what we went through. But the recipe