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!)

Country white dinner rolls

Sometimes dinner just tastes better with fresh rolls.  And the nice thing about making them is that it takes no time.  Well, as long as you’re handy with a bread machine.  This recipe for “country white” dinner rolls had a lot of positive reviews, so I gave it a try.  And they were tasty.  The [...]

Amaranth bread

I am living life vicariously this winter through by experimenting with different flours.  I know, can you feel the excitement?  The ongoing bus strike (and our “car free-ness”) means that some days going grocery shopping is the only entertain we can muster outside the house.  I wasn’t feeling very hopeful about this bread recipe [...]

Brioche for beginners

This month’s Cooking Club Challenge over at the Food Network is brioche.  I’ve never made brioche before, so I printed off the recipe and got started in the kitchen.  I was keen to try it because when food has a french name, it means that it must be good. (See: croissant.)   I was halfway [...]

Homemade english muffins

I got the idea to make homemade English muffins while menu planning this week.  I really wanted something new for breakfast and thought that an egg and muffin would do the job.  But the idea of grocery store English muffins didn’t thrill me.  I did some Googling and found this recipe for dough that can [...]

Buttermilk Bread

This recipe is so easy and yet so delicious!  And best of all, it’s not fussy so you can throw it all together in the breadmaker in the time it takes to change a diaper… or two diapers (if you’re in our house).  Speaking of…  we have a code brown in progress.

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Willing and Abel

We were gifted the Abel & Cole Cookbook a couple of months ago and with local produce in full swing here, it was time to crack out some of their recipes.
First, we were inspired by the grilled aubergines (eggplant) with buffalo mozzarella. Well, we had some nice Canadian zucchini (courgettes) on hand, so we [...]

Personal pizza

Since I bought a bread machine in the fall, our pizza consumption has skyrocketed. I admit, I used to used pizza dough mix – you know, just add water and wait 15 minutes and voila – dough! Those days are over. (While not very ‘cheffy’, those pizzas always tasted good to me.) [...]

Pesto bread

Turns out my “pizza perfect pesto” recipe also does a great job in bread. I was making some soup and thought a savoury bread would be a nice side. That sounds a lot better than “I bought basil at the grocery store and couldn’t recall what I needed it for”.
I used this recipe [...]

Rise up rise up – homemade pizza edition

The first recipe of 2008 was a bit haphazard – my “better” half decided to ring in the new year by coming down with a nasty cold and saluting the new year with tissues and a lot of nose honking.
For dinner we (ahem I) decided to fling some things together and bippity boppity boo make [...]

Cranberry yogurt bread

This is a real bread for a winter day.  I have a lot of bits and pieces in the fridge.  Applesauce left over from making gingerbread decorations, yogurt and cranberries.  I tweaked a recipe that I found online to use up all of these “bits”.  Sometimes my experiments go the way of the garbage can.  [...]

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