Best Mocha Chip Cookies

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Mocha Chip Cookies ~ My Edible Journey
Today is a bit dreary. Actually, it’s a lot dreary. But it’s the kind of dreary that we need.  The rain is gentle and steady, and is going to be followed by warm sunshine.  Together, they will make magic.  The green of the grass will brighten.  The roots of our recent vegetable transplants will stretch into their new soil home.  The cool-loving lettuce and peas will explode with growth.  It is a good dreary.  A dreary that inspires me to bake. Continue reading →

What’s Cooking?

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Asparagus Salad ~ My Edible Journey

What a weird week. After the chill of Mothers’ Day, we moved into high heat and humidity for Victoria Day (the unofficial kick off weekend of summer and gardening in Canada). Then we had some unstable weather, with storms. Today? The furnace has been running, we’re in long pants, and my toes are trying to convince me that they need socks (I refuse to give in). Continue reading →

Jazzed Up Honey Ice Cream

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Honey Ice Cream via myediblejoureny.comChilly for ice cream

Mothers’ Day weekend was chilly. In fact, it was downright cold on Sunday. Especially after a gorgeous lead-up, with sun and warmth and sun… And blossoms. Lots of blossoms. Every year we head to the lilac garden in Niagara Falls. It’s one of my favourite places to spend time, and it is beautiful for such a short time each year. Thankfully it was nice enough on Saturday to head out and take in the sights and amazing scents that the garden offers. Continue reading →

Shortcakes and Chocolate Sauce

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Mixed Berry Shortcake via @Mama_B myediblejourney.com

What a beautiful weekend

Wow, after the way “spring” started, I didn’t think we’d see this weather any time soon. We did kind of jump right to summer, a little. But it’s not stupid hot or anything, so it’s good. The Forsythia is in full bloom and the Lilacs will soon be out. “Blossom Sunday” is upon us here in Niagara; a time when historically tourists would come from far and wide to ogle the orchards in full bloom.  That doesn’t happen so much anymore, at least not organized tours, but we’re planning on going out to take in the beauty. If I get some good pics, maybe I’ll come back and add them. Or check out my instagram account. Continue reading →

Chive Bread

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Chive Bread Sandwich from My Edible Journey via @Mama_B

Spring has sprung

I think it’s safe to assume that winter has finally left (don’t look at me like that – we saw snow as recently as mid-April). Our crocuses and other bulbs, along with the deciduous shrubs and the raspberry canes, are thumbing their figurative noses at the chill that’s lingering and pretending the bright sun is actually doing something.

Chives from My Edible Journey via @Mama_BThe chives are always the first to pop up. While the oregano and thyme hold back, demanding more heat than the world around them is giving right now, the chives are up and ready to party. My daughter snacks on them whenever she’s outside, so it’s good that they’re so willingly prolific. She spends much of early spring stinking of their oniony goodness. Continue reading →

Stracciatella Cheesecake Cookies

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Stracciatella cheesecake cookies

Canadian readers will know what I’m talking about when I say “Festive Special.” Every Christmas, a chain called Swiss Chalet offers their quarter chicken dinner with cranberry sauce and a spongy, sage laden side that they call stuffing. It’s sub-par, but the real draw is the package of 5 assorted Lindor chocolates that it comes with. Dark, milk, hazelnut, white and stracciatella, an orb of white chocolate enrobed in more white chocolate, studded with chocolate shards.

Finely chopped unsweetened Camino chocolate

Camino unsweetened chocolate, chopped into a pile of delicious shards, ready to create the stracciatella effect.

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We interrupt this blog

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Hi there. It’s been a bit, hasn’t it? It feels like it, anyway. I try to put out a post a week, but sometimes some part of the journey takes me somewhere else. First, we played ‘ring around the head cold,’ with the kids picking up and passing along one after another. I finally succumbed last week, with a less than pleasant combination of tongue swelling, sore throat, congestion and overall zombie-brain hitting me.

Then there was this…

old, cracked tile

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Hearty Ham and White Bean Soup

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So much ham

We ordered a bone in “quarter ham” from a local farm for Easter.  Growing up, we always had ham for Easter dinner.  I don’t know where the tradition comes from (Oh Google… Be a dear and fetch that info for me, would you?).  Okay, so it’s an American thing.  The fresh pork slaughtered in the autumn wouldn’t keep until spring, so what wasn’t consumed was cured.  Curing is not a quick process, so the first hams would be ready around the same time that Easter came along, making them the obvious choice to be the meat at the meal.  Thank you, Google. Hearty White Bean and Ham Soup Continue reading →

A Cookie With Milk In It

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Chocolate chip condensed milk cookies

Old dog, new trick

I make chocolate chip cookies often. My go-to recipe is simple, though I’ve played with it in many ways (surprise, surprise). I’ve added coffee, corn syrup, corn starch, varied the chocolate, changed the flour, patted it into bars… Continue reading →

Candied Lemon Zest

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Meyer Lemon Zest and Cocktail

Spring?

Really? If the calendar didn’t say so, I wouldn’t believe it. There’s a layer of snow out there that beats all that we got last winter (when, by the way, it was 20C or warmer at this point). It’s grey. My son has a cold. Everything screams “hunker down!” Continue reading →