If you’ve been a long-time reader of this blog, you’ll likely know I have a pretty adventurous palate. There are very few foods/dishes that I don’t like (I’m looking at you papaya) and I’m always open to trying new flavours. Unfortunately, there’s some dissonance between what I’m willing to eat and how prepared my body…
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Elvis French Toast
Since all of us non-essential workers have begun working from home indefinitely it’s like a fun game of “What day is it anyway?” One day slowly bleeds into the next without any discernible beginning or end. There are two obvious upsides to losing your place on the space-time continuum. First, any hour can be happy…
Banoffee Pie
Taste & Tipple turns two! What did you get her? I hope its some bespoke barware or antique cutlery with plenty of patina. The blog can always use more food photography props – from stylish cake plates to crystal-cut coupe glasses. Bonus points if you can also provide storage for said gifts, as things are…
Coffee Toffee Banana Bread
Dessert for breakfast? Don’t mind if I do. I think we all have a tendency to be a bit ambitious when we do our grocery shopping. We have delusions of superhuman time management skills when we map out our meals for the week on Sunday. Or sometimes we make that critical mistake of grocery-shopping…
Banana Waffles with Brown Sugar Syrup
I promise I don’t work for the banana lobby. You may have noticed that I’m pushing the banana agenda pretty hard. See #3 from the Top 10 Tastes in Ottawa post for a fulsome explanation. In this brunch dish, bananas work hand-in-hand with poppyseeds to take waffles from “ho-hum breakfast cake” to “magical culinary…
Bananas Foster French Toast
I’m going to be real with you. The life of a rookie food blogger is not as romantic as you might imagine. Unfortunately, I don’t spend my life flitting from one great meal to the next. I do love to cook (obviously) and almost always find it restorative once I break out my chef’s…
