Apologies for not posting in a whole week, but family comes first around here, and with two sick kids and then a sick Mama, this space got put on the back burner for the week. There is still no snow around here. Today, it was 9 degrees C and rainy. I, for one, am heartily [...]
After Christmas, there is always a clean up job to do. Ornaments to put away, floors to vacuum clean of pine needles and scraps of ribbon and wrapping paper, the little village to be carefully nestled back into a box… and photos and recipes to post. It’s true! There has been a dearth of photos [...]
I’m not the only one who crafts in this house. Around here, crafters abound. And since crafting is always more fun with friends, we tend to pick up stray crafters on a regular basis. A couple of weekends ago, we had one of those weeks where extra crafters seemed to be pouring out of the [...]
The only thing better than homemade bread fresh out of the oven (or breadmaker) is… …homemade croutons, made from homemade farmhouse bread (a mix of 12 grain and rye flours). Our recipe is simple, and oh so yummy! 1/4 cup olive oil 4 Tbsp melted butter 1 Tbsp smashed garlic cloves 1 Tbsp minced parsley [...]
The letter A stands for many things. Autumn, apples, and (of course) Andrea. Put all three together, and you get… …applesauce! Apples abound in the fall and the grocery stores and roadside stands are overflowing with apples in all sorts of varieties, from the soft and sweet Macintosh to the crisp Empire and Courtland… they [...]
The best recipes are those that are passed from person to person on little cards stained with peanut butter and cooking oil and loving fingerprints. Sometimes they can be found in glossy, beautifully photographed cookbooks, but more often they have been tweaked and adapted by various someones and bear only a passing resemblance to their [...]
You know we love granola bars… We adore them. We consume them in vast bunches. We make them over and over and over again, never quite the same way twice. Today on the Globe and Mail’s website, they posted a video tutorial that has a completely new-to-us way of making granola bars! It’s a longer [...]
…you can create summer. When I was young, we used to go up to a neighbour’s cottage regularly. The cottage was located on a tiny rock of an island in the middle of a lake and had no electricity or running water. Everything you needed had to be ferried in by boat, which meant that if [...]
For as long as I can remember, my mother has never, ever followed a recipe. That is not to say that she doesn’t have the recipe out in front of her as she cooks. She does, and her favourites are butter- and chocolate-smeared pages or cards which long-ago faded to yellow. Cookies, bars, and brownies [...]
One of our favourite things to make and eat is oatmeal chocolate chip muffins. They are simple enough to do that you can start them while sleepy kids are just tumbling out of bed and they will be ready in time to eat them for breakfast, still warm from the oven with the chocolate chips all [...]
