happy birthday blog

Well, I missed my blog's 1st birthday by a couple of days, but here are some pictures of a dessert in belated celebration. This cookie skillet is amazing. It's one of the best chocolate chip cookies I've ever eaten, and I've eaten a lot of cookies thus far in life. Being a hopeless flickr-aholic, I first saw this cookie here. And then here and here too. I had to have the recipe - luckily both Sarah and Katie understood my immediate need for cookies and sent me the recipe simultaneously. I went out and bought a cast iron skillet that afternoon and have since baked this...um...more times than I care to admit.

So. Happy birthday to my blog and go bake this now. And while you're eating it, warm and gooey and straight from the skillet, check out the photos I linked to above. These ladies are constant photographic as well as culinary inspiration!

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picking apples

Apple picking is one of my favourite things, and something I look forward to all year long. Traditionally, my mom and I head to Elderkin's Farm near the start of October to pick a ridiculous poundage of apples that then require a lot of baking. This year is the first that I haven't been in Nova Scotia, at least for a visit, during apple picking season, and I didn't want to face the rest of autumn without the prospect of homemade applesauce (it's really not the same if you don't pick the apples yourself), so Emily and I went to Berryview Farm in Caledon, where they taxi (ok, wagon) you past a pumpkin patch to get to the orchard. We picked 20 lbs of apples. Each.

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