As luck would have it, I get to celebrate two Thanksgivings every year: Canadian and American. For American Thanksgiving we go out for a nine course meal at my favorite restaurant. So for Canadian Thanksgiving I do the cooking. My picky husband of course sometimes makes that a bit of a challenge. So other than the fact that he doesn't want turkey I pretty much do my own thing and he can pick and choose what he wants from what I made. Today we will be having a roasted chicken, plain ol' mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, cranberry-pear chutney, sausage apple stuffing, rolls and pumpkin bread pudding. He wont touch the bread pudding so I was sure to buy him ice cream for dessert. I on the other hand will be eating a heaping bowl of bread pudding...though most likely a few hours after dinner. :) It's nice to get the chance to count my blessings up twice a year instead of just once. It's been a more than crazy year and it is good to set aside time to be thankful for all that I … [Read more...]

I always have such and internal struggle when my favorite hockey team(Flames) plays the team of my favorite player(Flyers). As fate would have it, they played each other last night...for their first games. As usual my Flames lost. No big shocker there. However, when this situation occurs ideally I like for them to tie, and then the Flames win in overtime, that way they each get a point. That didn't happen but  my player did score two goals. Luckily this is the only time they will meet...unless of course they both go to the Stanley Cup Playoffs(hahahahahahahahahahahahaha). When the Flames lose I like to bake. I bake a lot. When I woke up this morning, the weather just screamed, bake bread. So that is what I did. When the Daring Bakers made cinnamon rolls we used a recipe from the Bread Baker's Apprentice. I own this book and had dragged it out to follow the recipe from there. Ever since I dragged it out I told myself I needed to make more bread. I used to do it all the time. … [Read more...]