Oh my...

It's been three weeks since my last blog post, how embarrassing. I do apologize, as mentioned before, the shower/wedding season has begun and it's been keeping me very busy! I've been baking and taking photos, but sadly I haven't gotten around to writing up final drafts of my recipes.

Here are a few photos of the past recipes I have made and I have full intentions of posting the recipes as soon as I can.

The first two photos are the Sucre à la crème coffee cakes I had made a few weeks back and we had an early birthday for my Fiancé this past weekend and his request was a Black Forest Cake, which you can see in the second two photos:

Tonight, I'd like to try something healthier and bake come Applesauce Spice Muffins, I found a wonderful recipe on Epicurious and I'll be sure to take some pics!

Cheers,
Naho @ Scrumptious Foods

Original Recipes

I must apologize for being two weeks late on my blog posts. It's been rather hectic the last little bit and there is more to come. With it being wedding and shower season, not to mention upcoming birthdays and the end of the school year, it’s been crazy.

Recently I've wanted to create my own recipes. Many of the things I bake and cook are from various recipes I come across or sometimes just trying it out as a go. I've never really sat down and wrote out a recipe, so a few weeks ago I did.

I created a recipe for Sucre a la Crème Coffee Cake with a Maple Glaze; mind you I created them like cupcakes to have an individual feel. It's not bad, but it could use some tweaking, I will post the pics and the recipe when I get a chance this evening. Next I'm thinking I'd like to make a cookie recipe!

Last night I decided to bake some Chocolate Chip Banana Bread from the Magnolia Bakery cookbook. I adore this series of cookbooks; they have such wonderful recipes that never fail. I will have to go home and take photos of the banana bread and post them on our Scrumptious Foods flickr group as well as the next blog entry. The banana bread was moist, delicious and the chocolate chips gave little bit of decadence!

Do you have any original recipes of your own or any you are hoping to create? Let us know and don't forget to post photos @ our flickr group, we'd love to see them!

Cheers,
Naho @ Scrumptious Foods

Stir Fry

The other night, my Fiancé and I decided to make shrimp stir fry for dinner. It came out really good, full of flavour, colour and was a lot of fun to cook together. Funny thing, just as we're about to eat, he asks me "I thought you were going to take pictures?” of course I was having so much fun I forgot to take out the camera and shoot a few shots. Oh well, I guess I’ll get to take more photos the next time around. Do you enjoy cooking or eating stir fry and if so what kind?

Cheers,
Naho @ Scrumptious Foods

Scrumptious Foods @ Flickr

If you haven't checked out our Flickr group, now is the time. We've had lots of new members and photo additions to the group. You can find us at http://www.flickr.com/groups/scrumptious/ or if you are a flickr member, you can log in and use the group search bar and type in "scrumptious". Don't forget to check out our flickr flash badge on the right hand side of our blog page, with all the wonderful photos located in our Scrumptious Foods Group. Hope you give our flickr group a visit and feel free to join as well, the more the merrier!

Cheers,
Naho @ Scrumptious Foods

Feelin' a little French...

Reading the usual blogs and cookbooks as well as looking through the market these days, I've been put into a French (food) mood. I would like to make macaroons and crepes, now I'm thinking of French style breads. Hopefully will get to make a few of these items this week and post up the photos and recipes, which is rather fitting as it's National Bake Week (April 14-21). Speaking of French I really need to brush up on my language skills lol.

Cheers,
Naho @ Scrumptious Foods

Breakfast @ The Village

This morning (My Fiancé) Justin stopped by a bit earlier on our way to work so we went off to have breakfast. We went to a local place in Stoney Creek called The Village which is a sweet and cozy family-style restaurant that always welcomes you to visit time and time again. I had a side of toast with jam and crispy bacon with coffee while Justin opted for a coffee and French toast, they have great French toast there; light, fluffy and quite the generous order at that.

If you are a breakfast lover, check out this blog of breakfast photos posted daily, called Simply Breakfast, you never know where you'll pick up an idea or two to try something new. So what do you enjoy eating for breakfast? Are you a salty or sweet breakfast person? I think I would like to make crepes for breakfast the next chance I get.

Cheers,
Naho @ Scrumptious Foods

The Infamous Ladurée Macaroons

This year I started reading many food blogs and learning lots of fascinating tips, ideas and facts about the foodie world. I have always loved food so when I started seeing these gorgeous treats all over the net, known as the Ladurée Macaroons, I had to check out the Ladurée website to learn more.

Ladurée is located in Paris, France and has many locations throughout Europe. The Ladurée macaroons are a small and round, cake like pastry that is crisp on the outside and soft in the middle. Many others have adapted their own version of this macaroon recipe and now can be found all over. I have been looking for recipes online and I would like to try to make this marvellous sweet out for myself.

Keep an eye out in the next couple weeks as I update our flickr Scrumptious Foods Group photostream with new food photos as well as my first attempt with these infamous macaroons, I hear they can be quite tricky.

Cheers,
Naho @ Scrumptious Foods