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  Here’s some food for thought as you gather ’round for Easter dinner: If art imitates life, were the twelve disciples overeating at Jesus Christ’s Last Supper? The answer is no, according to analysis of the amount of food depicted in paintings created over the last 1,000 years of history’s most famous dinner. Instead, the…

  My sweet little cupcake had his Christening recently in front of our closest family and friends. I thought it would be both symbolic, and fitting, to order a cake that celebrated our religious and cultural background. What better than Noah’s Ark, which landed on Mt. Ararat, Armenia’s national symbol? Enter Toronto-based company Bakerbots Baking,…

  So apparently I missed Delurking Day by one day. Please don’t hold it against me. It’s a good day when I can take a shower with a 5-month-old crawling in the house.I’m dying to know who my lurkers are! Apparently I have readers in Croatia, the Isle of Man, the Palestinian Territories, Bulgaria, Sweden,…

  It’s been a year since I hit “Publish post” on my first blog entry and I can hardly believe I’ve made it this far. I first started this blog not only to chronicle my culinary journey but to record what I’d learned along the way.But this blog has served as so much more .…

Baby A entered the world August 15 at 5:58 p.m. weighing 7 pounds, 5 ounces and measuring 20 inches long. And boy oh boy did he take his sweet time getting here. I heard his first cry after 24 hours of labour and a C-section. My little cupcake is taking up every waking, and sleeping…

  I am officially 39 weeks pregnant and ready, oh so ready, to pop this baby out.Considering people keep asking me if I am carrying twins, you can imagine how big I’ve gotten. This means sleeping, walking, standing have gotten increasingly harder.Baking and cooking are taking a back seat (right next to my Graco baby…

  In an ironic twist of events, having a bun in the oven is keeping me from baking and cooking as much as I used to. I’ve been told to avoid sugar (horrors!) and keep my feet up when I get home from work. This means the amount of time I usually devote to baking…

  I’m about four months along in my pregnancy now and there is one thing I crave on a near-daily basis: Shrimp and pork pot stickers with hot sauce. Make that two, crab salad with creme fraiche sandwiches. But that’s a whole other post. So when I saw the class for “hands-on dumplings” I signed…

  I knew the time had come to clean out my pantry when I stopped bothering to check what I already had in the house before writing my grocery list. My pantry was a mountain of boxes and bags I had long forgotten about. So it was on a cold winter Sunday, when I was…

  I interviewed Tana Ramsay today. She’s the wife of the potty-mouthed celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay but also a popular cookbook author in her own right. She was at CTV’s Canada AM during a stop on a promotional tour for her new cookbook “Home Made” (HarperCollins). There have been media reports out of the U.K.…