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!)

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 [...]

Custard cookies

I was flipping through Nigella’s Feast cookbook during some mom downtime and saw her recipe for custard cookies.  I’m not a huge custard person, but we keep a can of custard powder in our pantry because the husband likes custard with pie.  I think it’s weird.  Why put pudding on pie when you can put [...]

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 [...]

Australian wattleseed cookies

After installing the new cupboard last week and organizing our collection of Australian spices, I thought it would be a good idea to make use of some of them. We’ve been using them sparingly since well… things like wattleseed and sea parsley don’t exactly turn up in very many (ie: none) of our North [...]