While I have grown a passion for cooking, it didn’t really start until after college and didn’t really achieve anything worth writing about for some time later. But Kai came home extremely excited with one of his reading books — “It’s a recipe dad” he exclaimed. So I checked out the book and seemed simple enough, and after a quick trip to the grocery store to get a few last ingredients (actually just the cheese) we were ready. We set a date at 8am Sunday to take on the challenge.

The recipe turned out to be quite bare bones. Baking instructions didn’t really state a temperature or a time. But just following some common sense (180 degrees C) and allowing it to brown, we came out right on target.

In the tasting phase, Kai noted that these were lacking taste (the recipe was the first ever I have seen without salt.) We quickly improvised with some cream cheese and smoked salmon in the fridge, an voila — we had created world class canapes. A great new creation by experimentation. Can’t wait to do it again with the boys.