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Chocolates & Chai: Award-Winning Recipes

by Riz

All your favorite recipes from AROUND THE WORLD. Riz from Chocolates & Chai is an award-winning food blogger and Saveur Blog Awards finalist that shares comfort food, brunch, and dessert recipes with step-by-step instructions and recipe videos. AS SEEN ON: Cosmopolitan UK, Williams-Sonoma, Masterchef Canada, and more.

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Monthly Coffee Date - May

Monthly Coffee with Riz Chocolates & Chai Hi Reader! It's time for our monthly coffee date! Grab a cup of coffee (or maybe your favourite chai?) and I'll give you a little rundown of things you may want to be aware of this coming month, as well as a quick update on what I've been up to. What's been happening with me What did I do in April? I worked, I slept, I broke my pinky finger (don't worry, bestie! It's much better now), and I read a few comic books after years of not touching even one....

4 days ago • 1 min read

Monthly Coffee with Riz Chocolates & Chai Hi Reader! It's time for our monthly coffee date! Grab a cup of coffee (or maybe your favourite chai?) and I'll give you a little rundown of things you may want to be aware of this coming month, as well as a quick update on what I've been up to. What's been happening with me I did something a little out of character in February. I went on a winter holiday! Usually, as a summer child, I go looking for warmer climates whenever possible. Last week, I put...

2 months ago • 1 min read

Monthly Coffee with Riz Chocolates & Chai Hi Reader! It's time for our monthly coffee date! Grab a cup of coffee (or maybe your favourite chai?) and I'll give you a little rundown of things you may want to be aware of this coming month, as well as a quick update on what I've been up to. What's been happening with me I started the year running! I don't mean physically running (I refuse to run if nothing is chasing me), but work-wise. My day-job has been busy, and it's definitely meant that...

3 months ago • 1 min read

Monthly Coffee with Riz Chocolates & Chai Hi Reader! Happy 2024! It's time for our first monthly coffee date of the New Year. Look at us hanging out on the first day of the year. I'll love that we could find a little time for each other today! Happy New Year! Can you believe it's already 2024? I hope you had a wonderful end to 2023. We didn't do anything crazy. We had a small Christmas party with a few friends, and were taking care of a friend's cat so it was a quiet start to the new year....

4 months ago • 1 min read
A tray of raspberry cheesecake cookies.

Monthly Coffee with Riz Chocolates & Chai Hi Reader! It's time for our monthly coffee date! Grab a cup of coffee (or maybe your favourite chai?) and I'll give you a little rundown of things you may want to be aware of this coming month, as well as a quick update on what I've been up to. It's December! Is it really December? Have you started your Christmas decorations? The festive season is one of my favorite times of the year (with one small caveat). I love the lights and the generally merry...

5 months ago • 2 min read

4 Pies to Make This Thanksgiving Chocolates & Chai Hi Reader! Thanksgiving is fast approaching. I know you've been looking forward to it. As a Canadian, I technically already had Canadian Thanksgiving earlier in the year, but I'll be honest, I'm still waiting for those Black Friday sales! 4 Pies, 1 Party My wife said it would be too much. But how can you have too much pie? Here are four pie recipes to check out this Thanksgiving. Pecan Pie Probably the most classic Thanksgiving pie option I'm...

6 months ago • 1 min read

Monthly Coffee with Riz Chocolates & Chai Hi Reader! It's time for our monthly coffee date! Grab a cup of coffee (or maybe your favourite chai?) and I'll give you a little rundown of things you may want to be aware of this coming month, as well as a quick update on what I've been up to. What's been happening with me October's been a strange month in Toronto. Fall has been in full swing, and that's left us with some pretty inconsistent weather. Hot. Cold. Hot. Cold. Figuring out how warm to...

6 months ago • 1 min read

Boo! It's Halloween-time! Chocolates & Chai Hi Reader! Halloween is fast approaching. Here are a couple of recipes to have ready for the night of All Frights! Halloween Mummy Madeleines These Chocolate Madeleine Mummies are the perfect Halloween treat. Not only are they great as a dessert or a quick little snack, they're also a lot of fun to decorate! Halloween Pizzas (x3) It doesn't get more fun than Halloween pizzas! You can really let your creativity loose with these monstrous pizzas. Not...

7 months ago • 1 min read

Coffee Date with Riz Chocolates & Chai Hi Reader! It's time for our monthly coffee date! Grab a cup of coffee (or maybe your favourite chai?) and I'll give you a little rundown of things you may want to be aware of this coming month, as well as a quick update on what I've been up to. What's been happening with me Goodness, August flew by somehow. I didn't even realise September was so close (just a few days ago, I was telling my wife that I thought we still have a month until September...

8 months ago • 2 min read

Hi Reader! Today is International Cat Day. And well, that has very little to do with Chocolates & Chai. But what you might remember is that I was fortunate enough to have had a lovely cat named Nessie, who passed away at the start of 2023. She was almost 22 years old. (Human years, that's over 100 in cat years!) City Kitties Something you might not know is that in 2021 I wrote a children's book, starring my very own Nessie. It's called City Kitties, and was the Red Ribbon Winner at the...

9 months ago • 1 min read
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