New York City Eats: Levain Bakery

New York City Eats: Levain Bakery

Levain Bakery is a tiny bakery on the Upper West Side of New York and is famous for its cookies. The first time I walked by their tiny below-street-level location, there was a line out the door and around the corner. Since I was on my way to meet the rest of our group, I didn’t […]

Caribbean Buttered Rum Cake

Caribbean Buttered Rum Cake

Tomiko and Donatello used to work on cruise ships for several years, and I flew down to visit them in the Caribbean once. In the Cayman Islands I tried some delicious Rum Cake, which was sold in boxes piled high in almost every store. This recipe is the closest thing to that buttery Tortuga Rum Cake. It’s […]

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

This banana bread recipe is adapted from one in the Family Fun Cookbook that I received for my 12th birthday. In this case, I dialed down the sugar a bit and added the chocolate chips. Every time I think of banana bread, I remember a certain incident at the kids’ camp where I worked for two […]

Toronto Eats: Doughnuts at Glory Hole

Glory Hole Donuts

Glory Hole is the first Toronto bakery (that we are aware of) that started serving gourmet doughnuts back in August 2012. The bakery is decorated Canadiana-style: there is an upside-down canoe suspended over the counter, which looks like a stacked woodpile. It seems like a more delicious take on the favourite Canadian coffee shop Tim Hortons. Ashley […]

Matcha Pound Cake

Matcha Pound Cake

Our mom is not a fan of baking – I think it’s because she doesn’t like following directions. She makes phenomenal Indian curries, where you can add ingredients here or there and taste as you go; baking is more of an exact science and you don’t know what the results are until it’s all over. […]