Traditional Ukrainian Poppy Seed Roll is a lovely sweet bread filled with ground poppy seeds and almonds. It makes a great snack and is perfect for holidays. Growing up, we always had Ukrainian poppy seed roll from one specific bakery in Winnipeg. It was a huge roll and came on a Styrofoam tray, and wrapped…
Breads, Muffins & Yeasted Doughs
Morning Glory Bran Muffins
These morning glory muffins are full of wholesome ingredients and are my favourite for breakfast and snacks. They’re made with spelt flour, bran cereals, carrots, and apple and are super moist and lightly spiced. There’s a local coffee shop that I visit occasionally that has a great, healthy selection of lunches, snacks and treats. I…
Turkey Bacon Breakfast Muffins
Easy and delicious, muffins make a perfect grab-and-go breakfast. These savoury muffins are tender, flavourful and full of turkey bacon, cheese and chives. This post and recipe are sponsored by Turkey Farmers of Canada. As always, all opinions are my own. I’m not one for New Year’s Resolutions, but this year, I’m making an honest effort…
Grape and Olive Focaccia
Focaccia is a yeasted Italian flatbread that is soft and chewy, and it’s incredibly easy to make. There are endless variations of toppings, ranging from simple olive oil and herbs, to something slightly more complex, such as my red grape and kalamata olive with rosemary. I’ve always had it in my head that I dislike…
Goat Cheese and Scallion Drop Biscuits
A tender, fluffy, no-nonsense drop biscuit is something everyone needs in their back pocket. But if you’re interested in a little nonsense, this recipe is for you! This recipe happened completely by accident. It all started innocently enough, with a major hankerin’ for buttermilk biscuits to go alongside my favourite vegetarian chili. I darted out…
Almond Morning Buns
Morning Buns are the sophisticated cousin of everyone’s favourite, Cinnamon Buns. The dough for Morning Buns is enriched with eggs and butter, slowly risen in the fridge overnight, rolled up with cinnamon, brown sugar and slivered almonds, and baked in a muffin tin for perfectly portioned rolls. What, you might ask, is a Morning Bun,…
Easter Paska Bread
Paska is, hands-down, my favourite Easter food tradition. The usual suspects – perogies, cabbage rolls, perishke – all make an appearance, of course. But it’s the Paska that I fill up on. It’s usually force fed to me by my Baba along side a cup of tea. In all fairness, I do love the stuff…
Cranberry White Chocolate Scones
I’m SO crushin’ on fresh cranberries right now. Oh yes, fresh! Not those shrivelled dried ones you find with the other dried fruit. Now don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with dried cranberries – but fresh is best. They’re crisp, juicy and so much prettier than the dried version. This time of…
Amaretto Apple Scones
These buttery scones are laced with apples that are soaked in amaretto. Then, they are dressed with a sweet amaretto glaze and almonds. The only good thing about autumn is that apples are in season. Maybe if you live somewhere hot, the cooler weather is welcomed, but ’round here, it just means snow is on…
Cinnamon Crumb Surprise Cake
A few weeks ago, I had brunch with my two best friends. We’ve known each other since we were 2 years old and we consider each other sisters. We’ve been through everything together, from making mud pies, having sleep-overs, road trips, graduation, weddings. You name it, we’ve probably done it together. And we tell…