Growing up in an Italian-Canadian family, Thanksgiving was never really a huge holiday in our home. My mom would maybe make a turkey — but there was no delicious stuffing or pumpkin anything on our table. I remember watching American movies and TV shows with their Thanksgiving tables laden with platters of delicious-looking food and…
Category: Crumbles & Pies
Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble
Strawberries have always been my favourite fruit. I think this may have something to do with my early childhood obsession with Strawberry Shortcake. For my fifth birthday, I received a Strawberry Shortcake doll as a gift. She had strawberry blonde hair and a plastic face that smelled like strawberries. I spent hours combing that doll’s…
Apple Bacon Crumble aka “The Valentina Special”
So, my best friend, Valentina, calls me up one Friday night. She’s all excited because she’d just come up with a genius idea for my blog. It involved bacon. She had my attention. Val’s idea was for an apple pie that had a candied bacon lattice top. It sounded crazy (mostly because Valentina is a…
