After languishing for sometime, our zucchini plants are finally bearing some fruit. Since I love stuffed zucchini flowers and happen to have some fresh ricotta in my fridge, these yellow beauties are not long for this earth:
Food
More gems
Here is another Christmas gift from Mum: This gem iron is similar to the gem irons that Mum has at home – only mine lacks the patina of age and years of making ginger gems. In response to Helen‘s query, ginger gems are very light, ginger-flavoured puffs of sponge. Yummo! In my last post, I […]
Popover to My New Blog
Whoops, with all the excitement of New Year, I didn’t get around to posting yesterday. Hardly an auspicious start to my new blog but the holidays are now over and it’s back to more familiar daily rhythms. Here is a photo of a Christmas present that Mum gave me. Do you know what this is? […]
A Thanksgiving Feast
To help set the mood, this is what greeted our guests at the front door. But no, we didn’t make our guests dress up as pilgrims: I enjoy entertaining as it is an opportunity to use these beautiful pottery plates that David bought from a vendor at the Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival […]
Insanity
It is said that the definition of insanity is to keep on doing things the same way and expecting them to turn out differently. How many insane quiltmakers do you know?! Currently my insanity is manifesting itself on the culinary front. Due to other [quilting] commitments later in the month, David and I are celebrating […]
Smells Like Christmas
Today I have been baking up a storm and the smell of fruit cakes has permeated the house. I haven’t always been a devotee of the old-fashioned Christmas cake. However, when the house is full of people wandering backwards and forwards to the beach, it makes the perfect satisfying between-meal snack. This year, a number […]