Heigh-ho, heigh-ho It’s on the road we go We keep on driving all day long Heigh-ho*As we prepared to hit the road for Nova Scotia, we couldn’t help but be excited for those first little shortbread gems called Sable Shortbread to be coming out of the oven in our new...

Packing, Packing on a Summer’s Day (to the tune of Swimming) Packing, packing, on a summer’s day. There’s things to sort and things to sell and things to give away. Sell it. Toss it. KEEP. It’s nearly new. Now don’t you wish you had almost anything else to do....

I think moving might be in my DNA. Because of moving, we lived in rented houses for most of my childhood. You might think that was because of finances or that my parents didn’t want to put down roots or that we moved a lot because of my dad’s job. But this is as far...

My great grandmother probably hoped her grandchildren would pass along the family tradition of baking to another generation. And they did – or at least my Dad did. We lost him way too soon, but I do have this gift he left me that I use every day, so that’s really...

It’s official. We’re moving Sable Shortbread to the East Coast. And that means lots and lots of packing. And it means we have a bunch of things at the Sable Shortbread kitchen that we are not taking with us. So we’re having a giant moving sale to sell all our extra...

Sable Shortbread is growing and changing.So much has happened in the last five years as we’ve gone from just two flavours of shortbread (Traditional and Chocolate Chip), changing it up to over FIFTY flavours of shortbread – everything from Traditional to Double...

I love shortbread (but you probably knew that). I love baking. I love cooking.I love my family. I love my grandkids. I love my dogs.I love my hometown (Montreal). I love certain teams from my hometown.I love my kids’ hometown (Toronto). I even pretend to love certain...

Today is Epiphany, also known as Twelfthnight, or Three Kings Day. It’s the twelfth day of Christmas (you know from the song). Today we observe the visit of the three wise men to the newborn baby Jesus, bringing him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. It is...