One last blast. Must get “rid” of these apples before the fruit flies invade my home! I’ve got the juice extracted to make a couple batches of jelly, a pot on already the stove cooking down to make apple butter, another about to go on to make a batch of…
I decided to treat my boys to fresh strawberry muffins this morning. This is one of the best things about not working outside of the house. I used to leave the house at 6:15 when the house was dark and my guys were still sleeping. Now, I get up…
I so love this time of year! And this year is especially good. No, not garden-wise. My garden totally sucked this year, quite frankly. Each heirloom tomato plant gave me only one or two tomatoes. All my bell peppers got eaten by slugs and bugs as did my lettuce and…
This is my most favouritest, bestest, end-of-summer sandwich EVER! I can’t wait for this time of year. Finally! The tomatoes are ready! Nothing tastes better than a tomato, warm from the sun’s rays, picked and sliced, a splash of olive oil a sprinkle of Fleur de Sel…. And, should you…
What a jam-packed two days!! I feel like I’ve barely had a moment to just sit down and do nothing – or write until now, that is! On Friday, I got a hot pepper delivery to heat up my apple jelly recipes… rubs hands with glee… from my buddy David,…
OK – so in order to achieve my goal of one blog per day over seven days, I had to cheat! So sorry, but I’m posting twice today!! Last night we had friends over for dinner. I think my most favourite thing to do in the whole wide world is…
Bummer! I’m behind on my challenge of posting once per day! I did not take into account that I was having guests over and that I would spend the ENTIRE DAY cooking and preparing…I truly thought I’d have a spare half-hour or so. Not! So, here it is! Hubby and…
Do you ever have those days where you just want to get away from it all and have some “Me-time”? Happened to me yesterday. It is a very rare thing for me as I am a total social butterfly and the more people, the more going on, the more I’m…
