on the edge of ordinary

On Saturday morning over breakfast I indulged in some cookbook browsing. I was tired, but had high aspirations of getting some seasonal baki...

Most of us have favourite food memories from childhood. It's amazing how those memories stick with you. I love it that many of the sweet...

 I’ve got a blog post in the works about our holidays (now nearly two weeks ago!), but in the meantime, I posted a photo of the Ginger Slice...

Hot cross buns aren't readily available in Japan (though I've heard that some bakeries are starting to make them). So it's m...

It's been ages since I wrote about the sort of food we eat here regularly (2011, before we had any teens, I did two posts— 1 and 2 —ab...

Last night I baked a vegetarian dish that I found when I was a poor newly wed. I haven't made it, as far as I can recall, since we'...

So I did it. I cooked up the vegetable that our neighbour gave me last week and I have photos to prove it. On the left: is Teriya...

Yesterday I received this from one of our neighbours across the street. I was about to leave the house to do some errands on my bike and she...

I'm in the mood for writing, but I just have run out of time today. What with church this morning, a magazine design team meeting, bakin...

I had fun this week by putting the word "pudding" up on my Facebook page and asking my friends, who hale from a variety of backgr...

I made these last weekend and have been getting rave reviews from the two boys at home this week. By great restraint we've managed to ke...

I complained yesterday on Facebook about my two younger sons, who slept in and ate late yesterday (as I did), but then got all grumpy at me ...

I made Whole Orange Cake last weekend. Love this cake!  The boys have, over the week, given their whole and honest appraisal of the cake....

We've been "running" since Friday morning with little break. Most of it good and some of it exciting, but for now I've got...

This is a delicious recipe that I've been making for many years now. It brings the most mouthwatering smells into your house. Toda...

As I wrote yesterday, I made fruit mince pies while we're away (I also made more yesterday, that makes about four or five dozen!). It...

One of my slow-cooker recipes, but it requires tortillas, not a common thing to find in Japan (we get ours from Costco). I love my slow ...