Katy Mackay

Aerial view of chocolate ganache studded with Reeses.

Coconut meringue topped jam tarts

Lemon loaf with icing and chopped pistachios

Chocolate cookies with mini M&Ms

Weekend baking roundup: peanut butter sheet cake with peanut butter ganache and Reese’s pieces; cherry jam hertzoggies; a pistachio lemon loaf; and almond butter chocolate cookies (gluten free).

ahh oh no who could've predicted it oh no haha oopsy daisy

Candy bar blondies

Glazed chocolate donuts on a rack

Aerial view of haskap and almond crumble kuchen

Godiva chocolate hearts on cookies rolled in silver and gold sugar

Weekend baking roundup: candy bar blondies, baked banana donuts with chocolate glaze, haskap and almond kuchen/strudel, and sparkle heart cookies (with silver sugar for the hockey medals that were won and gold sugar for the medals that were lost).

why is technology people are using to make videos of a smurf having rough sex with chris griffin a better investment than solar energy? explain that to me before accusing me of rejecting “tech”

Cookies on a three-level rack

Aerial view of Cinnamon Toast Crunch bars with mini m&ms

Brownies topped with pistachio cream and salted pistachios

A Bundt cake with lakes of brown sugar glaze.

Long weekend baking roundup: old fashioned puffy chocolate chip cookies, Cinnamon Toast Crunch squares, mochi brownies with pistachio cream (gluten free) and an apple Bundt cake with brown sugar glaze.

I am fond of that coffee! It’s one of our regulars. The Old School Espresso is good, too.

Please check on the trans people in your life today.

The anti trans rhetoric is everywhere.

Those on the right are purposefully stoking fear and division in an attempt to destroy an entire marginalized group.

We can’t let them get away with it.

Trans rights are human rights.

Mass shootings are fucking awful. Transphobia is fucking awful. Social media today is fucking awful.

I was!!

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

Ooh, that guy is on Traitor Train with Danielle.

I would love them to be interviewing some of the vast majority of people who don’t want anything to do with it. It’s very stupid to give it airtime and validity. Maybe they did, though, I don’t know, I had to turn it off because it makes my blood pressure go through the roof to listen to that.

Thank you!! I recalled the last setup as being vexatious. Maybe that was the TV setup, though. Feeling super competent right now. 🎉💪😅

Our sound bar died last night and we have people coming for a combined Super Bowl and birthday party this afternoon. I made it to Best Buy before closing yesterday, bought a new sound bar, and got it set up successfully this morning without saying "motherfucker" even once. Please clap.

Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Alberta seeks more input on picking judges Premier Danielle Smith says her government will withhold funding for new judicial appointments in Alberta until Ottawa allows the province to provide input on who is picked. In a letter to Prime Minis...

This is a monumentally irresponsible move. Whoever advised the premier should resign or be fired.

Smith shouldn't just withdraw the threat. She should apologize for threatening to cut off Albertans' access to their own justice system.

Tomorrow.

edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/02/03/a...

Aerial view of shiny raspberry glaze on lemon poppyseed cake

Scones on a rack

Two kinds of oatmeal cookies

Side view of two-layer cake with truffles on top. The ganache has run amok somewhat.

Weekend baking roundup: lemon poppyseed snacking cake with raspberry glaze, blueberry/strawberry scones, oatmeal cookies with raisins and oatmeal cookies with mini m&ms, and a peanut butter layer cake with Nutella frosting and Nutella/pb ganache, commissioned for a colleague’s daughter’s birthday.

Aw, the last days are sweet and so sad, if you know it's coming. What a beautiful noble old face he has.

Does he enjoy (and is he up to) a car ride? Maybe to Dairy Queen for a cone? Visits from his favorite people?

The host introduced it as “It’s been a heavy day, here’s something lighter” (tee hee) - and then my jaw dropped open. The gunshots at the end were chilling.

I will complain to the ombuds, but good LORD. Please tell me I was not the only one to be horrified by this.

Was anyone else listening to CBC Radioactive this afternoon, and heard the clip from tonight’s 22 Minutes, yukking it up about the ICE murders in Minnesota, complete with fake GUNSHOTS? I have rarely been so appalled by the sound of someone laughing, usually a joyful noise. So very misguided.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

My heart just sank when I saw this. It's so stupid.

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

No more tone policing and kindness-washing. Everything that's happening in the US right now should be assumed to be a preview of the consequences of electing a Conservative Prime Minister in Canada, and of a separated Alberta under the UCP and the brownshirts they want to replace the RCMP with.

“Well, why’d he bring a gun to a protest?” asks a man brandishing an assault rifle inside a Jimmy John’s off state road 35 in Muncie, Indiana

"SARS-CoV-2 infection increases the risk of autoimmune diseases, particularly those affecting vascular and connective tissue. Risk is amplified by severe infection and attenuated by vaccination. These findings highlight the necessity of vaccination and targeted follow-up in severe COVID survivors."

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

Molasses cookies on a cooling rack

Nine chocolate madeleines dipped in chocolate

Blondies with chopped up Reeses treats on top

Date banana walnut cake cut in squares

Weekend baking roundup: soft molasses cookies (a recipe I’ve been making for 45 years), chocolate madeleines (first time experiment!), chopped candy blondies, and banana date walnut snacking cake.

Oh, yeah, they would get the benefit of my irritated command of the language. 😅