Tag: food-photography

Sugar and spice and all things nice – Maple Cinnamon Scones

March 15, 2012 by EmmaEats

Maple syrup is a staple in our household. Since Emma was born, we went from eating next to none to now consuming large quantities of it – whether on pancakes, in granola bars or substituting it for other sweeteners. And ’tis the season for maple syrup making. This week turned out to be a perfect week for an outing to a local sugarbush to learn all about how that golden syrupy goodness makes it to our table. One of our […]

Categories: Breakfast, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, Biscuit, Breakfast, Brunch, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, healthy, Homemade, Kid-friendly, Maple syrup, nut-free, quick and easy, Recipes, scone, scones, Whole wheat flour

Pretend like it’s the weekend. Now. – Whole Wheat Banana Flax Pancakes

March 12, 2012 by EmmaEats

It’s March Break! It’s maple syrup season! It’s a whole week of gorgeous weather ahead! Could it be spring is nearly here?! With the sudden warm and sunny spring-like weather (who said March comes in like a lion?), Emma, Katie and I are all eager to get up and moving. And of course, with it being March Break for Emma, we’re also hoping to get out and do a bunch of fun activities with our family and friends. We’ll be making […]

Categories: Breakfast, Recipes • Tags: Banana, Breakfast, Brunch, Cinnamon, Cooking, Family-friendly, Flax, Food, food-photography, healthy, Homemade, Kid-friendly, Maple syrup, nut-free, Pancake, quick and easy, Recipes, Whole Wheat

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Paprikas Csirke Gombaval - Chicken Paprikash w Mushrooms

Hickety pickety, my paprikash hen…Chicken and Mushroom Paprikash

March 1, 2012 by EmmaEats

We’re back from our trip to Florida and it is suddenly cold here. I know you probably aren’t feeling too sympathetic to my complaint especially since we were warm and basking in the Florida sunshine merely days ago. But now we are cold, have finally seen some snow (which turned to freezing rain and then melted again) and are being treated to a not-so-nice few days forecasted ahead. Emma’s take on things here: “Mummy, our garden looks terrible. It really needs […]

Categories: Dinner, Lunch, Recipes • Tags: Chicken, Chicken paprikash, comfort food, Cooking, Dumpling, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Homemade, nut-free, Paprika, quick and easy, Recipes, Winter cooking

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Rolling in the…dough – Smoked Oyster Buns

February 23, 2012 by EmmaEats

Often when we go to visit Emma’s Nanna and Grandad, Nanna makes us a smoked oyster appetizer. It is very delicious and Emma, along with Mummy and Daddy, eats so many that she has difficulty eating anything else for dinner. Imagine our dismay when suddenly we all had a hankering for these tasty tidbits and Nanna and Grandad were away…for three whole weeks…what would come of our need for oysters wrapped in buttery flakey pastry? Would we have to wait […]

Categories: Appetizers, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: appetizers, baking, Brunch, Cooking, Dough, empanadas, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, oyster, Recipes, sausage

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Sugar Pie Honey Bunch – Apple Crumble Pie

November 23, 2011 by EmmaEats

There was not a lot of pie in my house growing up. We had a lot of scrumptious homemade European desserts that my mother made, but pie was not included in the repertoire. That meant that this year, when I decided that Emma *had* to have pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, I didn’t have a long-held family recipe for pie crust. And the impression I had of pie crusts was they had to have shortening or lard, which did not appeal […]

Categories: Desserts, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: Apple, Autumn Recipes, baking, Baking and Confections, Cinnamon, Cooking, Crumble, Dessert, desserts, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, Recipes

Bye bye baby… – Pineapple Upside Down Mini-Cakes

November 14, 2011 by EmmaEats

Today is my Emma’s birthday. She’s four. Already. I’m not quite certain how the time has flown by so quickly but here we are. She’s in junior kindergarten, has friends she’s made without me introducing her and has decided that when she grows up, she’d like to be a dancer, minstrel and paediatrician. We had a birthday celebration this past weekend and she requested it be a luau. The weather gods cooperated and at one point, we ended up with […]

Categories: Desserts, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, birthday, Cake, Cooking, Cupcakes, Dessert, desserts, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, Pineapple, Recipes

Flee Fly Mosquito – Fudgey S’mores

November 10, 2011 by EmmaEats

Over the summer, G talked to Emma about camping. The conversation has come up a few times; I stay conspicuously quiet each time while the excitement between the two of them builds. I’m sure one of these times the conversation will lead to action, but hopefully, it will mean I won’t have to sleep outside among the bugs too. I’m also hoping that I might be able to share in the s’mores around the campfire. Also this past summer, we […]

Categories: Desserts, Recipes • Tags: Baking and Confections, Chocolate, Condensed milk, Cooking, Dessert, desserts, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Fudge, Gift-giving, Graham cracker, Homemade, Kid-friendly, Marshmallow, nut-free, quick and easy, Recipes, S'more, summer recipes

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Sunday morning… – Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

November 3, 2011 by EmmaEats

Emma loves apples. She eats at least one every day. In fact, probably one of the first phrases she uttered includes an apple a day keeps the doctor away. We made Apple Crumble Pie this week (coming soon to EmmaEats) all due to her love of apples (and not of pumpkin pie which I learned after making it for Canadian Thanksgiving). When it came time for her to choose a breakfast on Sunday morning, I was not surprised when she was […]

Categories: Breakfast, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: Apple, Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal, Apples, Autumn, Breakfast, Brunch, Cinnamon, Cooking, Crumble, Fall recipes, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Homemade, Kid-friendly, Oatmeal, quick and easy, Recipes, Winter recipes

Sugar, sugar

October 20, 2011 by EmmaEats

Just last week, Emma’s Nanna and Grandad returned from a 3-week trip abroad. She was very excited about them coming home and when we told her they were coming for dinner, she knew exactly what she wanted as a treat for their visit: butter tarts. Warm, buttery, brown sugary goodness. Emma’s first exposure to butter tarts was with our friend D. I say “our” friend because D and I became fast friends years ago through work, and when Emma arrived, […]

Categories: Desserts, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, butter tart, Cooking, Dessert, desserts, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Handmade, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, quick and easy, Recipes

Made for a prince(ss)

September 9, 2011 by EmmaEats

August was a hot and stormy month around here. On top of the heat, our oven was suddenly on the fritz. Not that I would have turned on the oven in our already hot kitchen. However, this meant that my dessert-baking obsession was taking a serious beating throughout that time. As I’ve mentioned before, when Emma has friends coming by, she selects what treat she’d like to have for the visit. We were preparing to have some friends by for […]

Categories: Desserts, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: Baking and Confections, Biscuit, Chocolate, Cooking, Cranberry, Dessert, desserts, Digestive biscuit, Dried cranberry, Dried fruit, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Handmade, Homemade, Kid-friendly, no-bake, nut-free, quick and easy, Recipes

Keen-what? – Quinoa and Veggie Salad

August 29, 2011 by EmmaEats

Our family has hit a new level of rushing about. We are always in a hurry — whether we’re trying to get to classes and appointments on time, doing grocery shopping, or cleaning and cooking. That rushing around coupled with some very hot summer temperatures means that I’m working hard to have the stove/oven on for as little time as possible. Keeping the temperature in our kitchen below a sizzling 30C is definitely a good thing. And most days this […]

Categories: Dinner, Lunch, Recipes, Sides, Vegan • Tags: Cooking, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, healthy, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, quick and easy, quinoa, Recipes, summer recipes, Vegan

Scones - plain, lemon cranberry and pumpkin spice

Hello baby! – Lemon Cranberry Scones

July 22, 2011 by EmmaEats

It has been awhile! I’m happy to be posting again, and happy that you’re here reading. Things at Emma’s have been pretty topsy-turvy as of late — mainly because at the end of June, we welcomed a new member into our family: Katie. That’s right, Emma’s a big sister now. And, the first two weeks after Katie’s arrival lulled me into a false sense of security — and then BAM! she doesn’t sleep consistently anymore, all routines are blown away […]

Categories: Breakfast, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, Breakfast, Brunch, Cranberry, Dried fruit, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, healthy, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, pumpkin, quick and easy, Recipes, scone, scones, Whole wheat flour

When the moon hits your eye…

June 2, 2011 by EmmaEats

I’ve been meaning to post this recipe for nearly a year. And finally, I was spurred into posting it because of Mother’s Day. Emma’s preschool class put together “Mommy Fact Sheets” which included the question, “What is your Mommy’s favourite food?” Emma’s answer about her mummy: pizza. Thankfully, everyone in our family, including Emma, loves pizza and even more thankfully, I have a quick and easy pizza dough recipe that makes me actually prefer making the dough to purchasing/ordering pizza. […]

Categories: Appetizers, Dinner, Lunch, Recipes • Tags: baking, Calzone, Cooking, Dough, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, hand pies, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, Olive oil, Pizza, quick and easy, Recipes

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C is for Cookie… — Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookie Bars

May 26, 2011 by EmmaEats

It has been a long time since my last post on EmmaEats. It’s certainly not been because Emma hasn’t been eating (well, we had a small spell of that when everyone here was sick for a few days!), however, things got a little busy here. G was travelling up a storm for work, we then had a delightful holiday to Paris, on our return, got sick, were catching Emma up on all of her missed classes/lessons, preparing for the arrival […]

Categories: Desserts, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, Chocolate, Chocolate chip cookie, Chocolate chips, Cookie, Cranberry, Dessert, desserts, Dried fruit, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, quick and easy, Recipes

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Zip-a-dee-doo-da – Zippy Lemon Bars

February 17, 2011 by EmmaEats

We returned last week from a very Emma-friendly vacation to Disney World. We all had a very good time – so good that none of us were really ready to come home, especially to 15+ cm of new snow. Before we left, we were all starting to feel the mid-winter blues and so, one evening for dessert, Emma picked something that brought a little sunshine – lemon squares. I have always enjoyed lemony desserts – one of my favourites being […]

Categories: Desserts, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, Cooking, Dessert, desserts, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Homemade, Kid-friendly, Lemon, nut-free, quick and easy, Recipes, Sugar, summer recipes

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Be Mine, Valentine

February 13, 2011 by EmmaEats

This is the year where Valentine’s Day changes for our family. Before now, there were Valentine’s given to one another, maybe to grandparents and a few close friends — this year, since little Emma is in nursery school, all of her classmates, teachers, playdate friends have all been selected to receive Valentines. Although it is very sweet, it has been a bit of effort to get those cards and treats ready in time for delivery on the big day. (We’re […]

Categories: Desserts, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, Chocolate, Christmas, Cooking, Dessert, desserts, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Gift-giving, Hershey Company, Hershey Kiss, Hershey's Kisses, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, Orangette, quick and easy, Recipes, shortbread, Valentine, Valentine's Day

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Got a bun in the oven!

January 24, 2011 by EmmaEats

Well, 8 actually! On a few occasions lately, we’ve found ourselves low on fresh bread. May have something to do with the colds/flu/tiredness floating around our house. Nonetheless, we made the realization we were out of bread when G briefly mentioned meatball subs one evening around dinner time. (I *love* meatball subs!) I couldn’t stop thinking of them. Knowing that Emma loves meatballs and bread, this was a no-brainer. Except bread = yeast! Again, my aversion to yeast recipes! Thankfully, […]

Categories: Appetizers, Really Yum Yum, Recipes, Sides • Tags: baking, Bread, Bun, Butter, Cooking, Dough, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Kid-friendly, nut-free, quick and easy, Side dishes, Yeast

Happy New Year!

January 5, 2011 by EmmaEats

Incredibly the holidays have already passed by and we are back to our normal day-to-day. Emma pointed this out on Sunday morning when she asked for me to take the reindeer sheets off of her bed and bring back her “non-Christmas” sheets. Once I convinced her that it wasn’t urgent to remove all signs of the holidays that very moment, I asked her what she’d like for breakfast. “Sweet buns,” she replied without hesitation. Emma’s introduction to sweet buns (aka cinnamon […]

Categories: Breakfast, Desserts, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, Breakfast, Brunch, Cinnamon, Cinnamon roll, Cooking, Dessert, desserts, England, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Homemade, nut-free, quick and easy