Cartems Donuts! I’m not much of a donut kind of girl, but adventure is adventure! Chief and I took a few loops around the block before we finally found this little storefront. Once we walked into Cartems, all we could smell was the lovely aroma of sweet pastry dough. The owner greeted us enthusiastically and …
Meat and Bread
And the adventure continues at meat and bread! Chief and I headed there one nice Vancouver afternoon at prime lunch time…and the line was out the door. It didn’t take long for us to actually make it into the store tough, which is always lovely.
Pistachio Thins (vegan)
Lil’ bun and I love the “thin addictive almond thins” from Costco, it’s our favorite to go snack. Since we were craving them, we decided to dig into mother deer’s baking book and see if she had a recipe for something similar, and this is what we found. We used chopped up pistachios to make …
Honey roasted almonds
Snack-ity snack snack time! Lil’ bun and I decided to try to add a bit of flare to our boring old almonds…and we ended up coming across this recipe! Normally we make our roasted almonds with savory spices, but this time, we decided to go sweet. That’s why we decided to make these Honey roasted …
Coconut bread! (vegan)
Lil’ bun has this thing these days where every time she comes home from school she asks me to bake something with her. Apparently baking something everyday is the new trend. Originally we planned on making pizza bread but then half way through we realized we didn’t have the right type of ham since we …
Raisin bread using bread machine
Lil’ bun and I recently dug up our ancient bread machine out of it’s retirement. She had never used or seen a bread machine before so this was an intriguing endeavor for her. We decided we wanted to make some sort of sweet breads, and since we just had a raisin bread recipe lying around, we just decided …