I love weekend breakfast so I always make the effort to make something nice. Especially in the summer, we eat breakfast out in the garden as we hear the birds chirping with the sun blazing at us. It’s so lovely. It’s makes a great start of the day.

This weekend, I made a nice omelette with sausages, tarragon (I can eat tarragon with anything!), fresh basil (from the garden), cilantro and cherry tomatoes (from the garden).

Since we moved to our house in Beach Grove, I haven’t had much luck with my baking. I’m used to having a gas oven which we had in our previous condos. But buying an older house means older appliances. I don’t get the luxury of a Kitchen Aid gas stove which I absolutely miss from our condo in North Vancouver.

Lately, everytime I bake, the bottom of my cookies or cupcakes get burnt as the previous owners probably bought the cheapest stove/oven they could find as it heats up tremendously on the bottom leaving whatever I’m baking burnt on the bottom and the top uncooked.

However, I’ve managed a way to getting around this. Now, I double up my cookie tray to thicken up the bottom and if the recipe calls for 350 degrees, I make sure to put it at a lower temperature.

And… voila! It works. These cookies are really good. It’s chewy and not too sweet. Indulgence!

My parents have an apple tree in their backyard. It’s actually a sad looking apple tree as it’s somehow growing sideways rather than upwards. But whichever way it’s growing, an apple tree is still an apple tree. So last week when Peter and I were there, we grabbed a bag full of apples to take home. I had them sitting on our dining table for days as I stared at them figuring out what to do with them. I searched online trying to get some kind of inspiration and after a few days of searching, i found a Jewish apple cake recipe that just looked too delicious to ignore.

Here’s a link to recipe: http://www.grouprecipes.com/39250/best-jewish-apple-cake.html