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Carrot Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese ...

Carrot cake is a quintessential dessert of spring. This recipe is moist slightly sweet, and perfectly spiced. It is paired with a rich and velvety cream cheese frosting.

Carrot Cake with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing
Heather Hands
Avocado and Asparagus Tartines with Basil Pesto

Asparagus is so beautiful this time of year, so I wanted to create a recipe around it. I made some basil and pumpkin seed pesto, and drizzled it on toasted bread with asparagus, avocado, and shaved Parmesan.

Avocado and Asparagus Tartines with Basil Pesto
Heather Hands
Pancakes with Concord Grape Syrup

Because his family is a true-to-the-bone pancake family, I really wanted him to share with me the secrets to making a good pancake, thin and delicate, perfectly browned on the outside, soft on the inside. He gave me a recipe, one that he has memorized. A set of very specific instructions, the right temp, the right amount of time for frying. I followed it to a tee, and sure enough, the pancakes came out the way I had always dreamed they would.

Pancakes with Concord Grape Syrup

Tangy Beets with Fennel, Walnuts, and Chevre

Tangy Beets with Fennel, Walnuts, and Chevre

Honestly, I'd love to say that I made this recipe through trial and error. That I had been slaving over the stove, testing and re-testing beets forever, but the truth is, I bought some beets, boiled, removed the peels, cut into wedges, added a few ingredients to a pot: vinegar, sugar, cloves, cinnamon, and salt. The whole thing just seemed to work out. The only comparison I have to anything better than good is my grandmothers pickled beets, and I wouldn't want to say that they are better, but they do come pretty close.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins with A Cream Cheese Frosting

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins with A Cream Cheese Frosting

This recipe has been tested and tweaked a few times over the years, and each year I can't decide on whether I am calling it a cupcake or a muffin. Brent thinks that it is a cupcake because it has icing. I agree, but I also feel that its much more like a muffin in taste and texture.

Kale & Quinoa Salad with Apples, Pecans, and Cranberries

Kale & Quinoa Salad with Apples, Pecans, and Cranberries

In the midst of the sewer disaster, I knew that trying to make things feel normal around here would be difficult, so I decided to head into the kitchen to brainwash my guests with lots of delicious food. Hopefully, the memories of delicious food will block out the ones of the exploding toilet.

Hazelnut Cake with Fresh Mint Chocolate Pudding and a Creme Fraiche Whipped Cream

Hazelnut Cake with Fresh Mint Chocolate Pudding and a Creme Fraiche Whipped Cream

A light moist cake, with a tender crumb. The hazelnuts are ground down with the flour, creating more of a fine hazelnut crumb rather than pieces of hazelnuts dispersed throughout. The addition of orange zest is what really through it over the top for me. I am pretty content eating this cake on it's own for breakfast, or classing it up with chocolate pudding and whipped cream for dessert.

Raspberry Scones + a few pics from our Gulf Islands Getaway

Raspberry Scones + a few pics from our Gulf Islands Getaway

To commemorate our fifth anniversary, Brent and I embarked on a ten-day road trip that was quite a memorable adventure. Our journey began in Seattle, where we drove to Vancouver and then took a ferry to Victoria. We indulged in a delicious meal at our favorite restaurant. We feel grateful for the bond we share and cherish the moments we spend together.

Sweet Corn, Peach, and Cherry Salad with Creamy Goat Cheese and a Lime Dressing

Sweet Corn, Peach, and Cherry Salad with Creamy Goat Cheese and a Lime Dressing

This salad was a result of emptying the fridge and putting all of my favorite 'summer foods' into one place. It's a lighter meal, one to be paired with a nice slice of bread and a glass of wine. At least I can be decisive when it comes to my food.

Chocolate Raspberry Loaf Cake

Chocolate Raspberry Loaf Cake

The thing I love most about this loaf cake is that you can eat it for breakfast and no one will judge. This is perfect for me because I always struggle with finding things to eat for breakfast. If you are looking for other foods that double as dessert and also breakfast, pancakes, waffles, and muffins are all totally acceptable, even if you cover them in chocolate and raspberries, caramel, ice cream, and sprinkles, am I right?

Mini Ice Cream Waffle Sandwiches

Mini Ice Cream Waffle Sandwiches

These little waffle sandwiches bring me back to my childhood.  Each summer we would visit the CNE, and I would get a waffle sandwich. At that age, I thought they only existed at the CNE, which made it even more special. When I got a bit older, I tried to recreate them at home with frozen Eggo waffles, and surprise, it wasn't the same.


Strawberry Rhubarb Coffee Cake

Strawberry Rhubarb Coffee Cake

Strawberries and rhubarb are such a powerful combination. They compliment each other in such a perfect way, it is hard to compete with anything else. This cake is truly spectacular. After a few tweaks and adjustments, I think I have finally come up with a cake version of the strawberry rhubarb pie. This cake is moist, with a delicate crumb. It has a slight sour component from the buttermilk that is fantastic.

Spring Salad with White Beans, Avocado, and Radishes + Saveur Nomination

Spring Salad with White Beans, Avocado, and Radishes + Saveur Nomination

In the mean time, I will leave you with my favorite spring salad. It's fresh and colorful and the perfect pop of color for this time of year. I got this crazy awesome mandolin at Christmas, and it slices the radishes into such perfectly beautiful thin strips.

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