Boyfriendly Cooking

Boyfriendly Cooking is about a fairly slim girl who lives with a hungry boy and tries to make good food that they both can enjoy in Ottawa, Ontario. (Note: The boy also cooks for the girl – plenty!)

Vegan sweet potato cornbread

To say that I surf the internet and books for recipes that Alden can eat is an understatement.   I scour the internet for recipes: vegan blogs, allergic-living online magazines, baby food sites.  You name it, I’ve been there.
Last week I found a recipe for vegan sweet potato cornbread on one site and you know what… [...]

The best chocolate chip cookies

When I saw Heidi’s recent post about chocolate chip cookies, I knew I needed to make them.  RIGHT AWAY.  That’s the dangerous thing about a well stocked pantry – you are always ready for a baking emergency.  Call 911 – it’s a chocolate emergency!  I was keen to make these cookies because they’re filled with [...]

Gingery chai spice cookies

I had a real hankering for cookies last night and had an earl grey cookie bookmarked in my “to try” binder.  Except, I had no earl grey tea in the cupboard.  I did have some loose ginger tea on hand – this gave me the idea to do a chai-ish cookie.  I blitzed up the [...]

Australia Day lamington cupcakes

Happy Australia Day!  With the ongoing bus strike in the city, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get out to the Harvest Loaf to pick up lamingtons to celebrate Australia Day.  I also had major mom guilt about not doing anything special to celebrate Alden’s first Australia Day.  After a bit of [...]

Spelt gingersnaps

Now that I have 40 pounds of unbleached white flour sitting in my kitchen (car rental!  major grocery shop!) I felt the need to try baking with something other than white flour.  Go figure.  The flour of choice?  Spelt.  I bought both light and dark (whole grain – like whole wheat) spelt at the Herb [...]

Molasses chocolate chip cookies

Day five of my “too cold to go outside with a baby” confinement yielded some chocolate chip cookies.  These cookies have an added boost from molasses.  Now, I love molasses but my husband does not.  Which means, I try to incorporate molasses into as many recipes as possible to convert the heathen.
I found this recipe [...]

Boob cupcakes

I decided to make these cupcakes to celebrate having breastfed Alden for 3 whole months (and counting).  Afterall, this blog is about ‘boy friendly’ cooking.   And this meal definitely counts as organic and notably “free range”.  It’s probably a cupcake best shared with girlfriends or maybe even at a baby shower and not a cupcake [...]

Apricot marmalade scones

I bought a lot of cream cheese last week because it was on sale and I planned on making more sugar cookies.  And then I decided that we’d eaten enough cookies for one week.  I’m fickle like that.  I got the idea for a cream cheese scone after some googling and modified a recipe that [...]

Coffee Cupcakes

With the newfound joy of baby naps, I now have these hour long pockets of me time during the day. My new favourite activity? Opening up a cookbook, finding a recipe that requires less than an hour and doesn’t require any special trips for groceries. It almost doesn’t even matter what [...]

Moomin Swedish rye cookies

I decided to bake this afternoon as our “big afternoon out” was totally foiled by the weather.  You would think that a surprise 10 degree day in December would mean happy frolicking on the streets of Ottawa, but in reality, the sudden warm spell turned our downtown core into a grid of lakes and [...]

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