These tasty treats hail from Portugal. I used to eat them at Portuguese bakeries in Toronto when I lived in little Portugal. Now living elsewhere, I miss them and must have them. So we must make them! I referenced a recipe from Leite’s Culinaria. She has a very helpful video! I am using her work…
Category: Snacks
Pão de Queijo
Greetings from Brasil! I arrived in February and will be spending the next year in Lavras, Minas Gerais teaching English at Universidade Federal de Lavras, and doing research on food security! Importantly, I’m researching food! And guess what, we’ve got some tasty treats from this wonderfully warm country. This pão de queijo is a naturally gluten-free…
The Cookies Everyone Beg For
All my friends have been asking for my cookie recipe, you know, the one I use on a day-to-day basis, the easy and simple chocolate chip for everyone. I have to admit to everyone that due to the high volume of cookies I make, I rarely do cook a full batch. Thus, I make a…
Salvadorian Breakfast Cakes
…They’re so good. I’ve been oogling over this recipe for quite some time and decided to make them today for my Birthday. This is a lightly adapted recipe that I found on Food52, I just tried to make it a little more healthy. Seems to have worked out pretty well- these little cakes are still…
Lizzy’s Surprise and More from Nuit Blanche!
This year for Nuit Blanche, my roommates and I had a fabulous idea… sell cookies, on our bikes. It made total sense, the entire city of Toronto would be out and about searching for art, and all the restaurants would be full, and there we’d be, on our bikes with hundreds of cookies at our…
Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies!
I love bananas. My dad loves bananas too. He used to sing this song to me about loving bananas when I was a kid that’s called “I love bananas because they have no bones”. Whenever I’ve sang the song to others, they’ve responded that they’ve never heard the song. It turns out, its an older…
Parmesean and Sriracha Popcorn
You’ll need: POPCORN: 1/2 cup of kernels oil for cooking For THE SAUCE: 4T Butter 3T Sriracha 1/8 freshly shaved parmesean Salt DIRECTIONS: Heat up a large saucepan on high heat with a tablespoon or so of oil. Throw a couple of popcorn kernels in the pot. Once they’ve popped, throw in the rest of…
Sweet-Honey-Cinnamon Popcorn
You never knew your popcorn could get so jazzy… until now. You’ll Need: 1/2 cup popcorn kernels Splash of Olive Oil/Canola Oil 2tsp salt For THE SAUCE: 4 Tbs butter/margarine 3 Tbs honey 2 Tbs Cinnamon Sugar (or… 4 tsp sugar, 2 tsp cinnamon) Let’s Begin: Put your kernels in a pot (non-stick is best)…
They Call Me Saucy 