This Chai Layer Cake with Pistachio Buttercream is a sweet little cake with a whole lot of attitude. Dish ‘n’ the Kitchen Turns Six! Can you believe it?! I sure can’t. It seems like it was just yesterday I created my WordPress account and visited my first restaurant to review.…
Hot Times Call for Cool Cakes Summer birthdays bring to mind idyllic picnics, friends, and mountains of ice cream. No one really wants to bake a cake in the middle of July, but birthdays happen regardless of the weather. Our family LOVES ice cream but have never been fans of…
A Cook Book for Anyone Abroad Missing Canadian Foods More Than Poutine is Marie Porter’s love letter to Canada. Written from the point of view of someone who has moved away from her home and native land, this cookbook includes many examples of Canadian food ‘isms’ one would never know…
Basbousa – A Baked Egyptian Sweet Semolina Cake I say it’s high time I bake something sweet for the Around the World in Twelve Plates blogger collaboration. Basbousa is an Egyptian classic cake made from durum semolina and a whole lot of dairy which is also popular in many other…
A Recipe 20 Years in the Making I have been waiting exactly 20 years to share this Chocolate Carrot Cake with you. Back in the day when I was a university student (and new mom) I had little time (or money!) for celebration or going out on the town. There…
I’ve missed it…gah! My very special, only comes once a year bloggiversary! Dish ‘n’ the Kitchen turned four on January 14th and I guess I’m totally in character with being four since I got distracted and played around instead of focusing on making a very special cake. I don’t know…
Community Cookbooks are the Cornerstone You know those old-style community cook books? The ones that have all sorts of strange, but wonderful and notoriously bad for you recipes? I wonder why no one makes them anymore. Do you think that websites like Allrecipes and food blogs in general have replaced…
Cooking is the Best Way to Show How Much You Love Someone I only just realized that my grandmother had never really loved cooking when she moved into the seniors home and breathed a sigh of relief. I’m still a bit shocked, but not entirely. Now that I think back,…
I first met Ginni online through her meetup group. It was clear from the very beginning that we were like minded people, both bound by our love and curiosity for food. I’ve only met a few people that have astonished me with the heart of a true cook, ones that…
The Perfect Celebration Cake I keep a large Pinterest board full of cake recipes that I save for special occasions. That’s not a surprise, I guess, since that is entirely the purpose of such a Pinterest recipe board. What is surprising is that I hadn’t yet found a special occasion…