Fun Parfaits

Presentation is a huge part of serving food and dessert and everyone knows it. Foods that look appealing to the eye can really make your mouth water. And these fun parfaits take the cake for presentation.

Tandoori Chicken Burgers

So, I know this post is supposed to be about tandoori chicken burgers, but let me just take a second to bring your attention to something special - the lovely red and green picnic blanket I used in this photo.

Chicken Pesto Lasagna Rolls

Lasagna rolls. I went there, I did it, and I loved it.

Toronto Skyline on an Egg

Hello everyone!

I know I haven't updated for a little while, and here's why! I was busy painting another ostrich egg - one with the Toronto skyline on it.

Vanishing Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Meet my mother: self-proclaimed health nut and proclaimed-by-me graduate level nutritionist. She's the one who introduced me to oats. Oats- nutritious, full of fiber, and probably the hardest thing for her to get me to eat. I mean, come on, how can anyone enjoy the slimy breakfast porridge made from oats... Or maybe that's just how it was for me, but let me just say, the breakfast table might have been a war zone for a while.

I decided to try to find a way to actually enjoy eating oats that would please both me and my mother. A recipe on the lid of the box of oats looked tempting enough - oatmeal and raisin cookies. Replace the raisins with chocolate chips and you have a recipe for "healthy" cookies that wholly satisfied me. Warm these cookies for a couple seconds so the chocolate is all melty and the insides of the cookies are all soft and chewy, grab a cup of milk to dunk it in, and you have a fool proof method to get anyone to eat oats. The best part is that my mom enjoyed the cookies too!