Many a quilt of mine has been enhanced by a touch (or more!) of lime. For example, Firefly Fancy (based on a Ricky Tims design): Or Technicolour Dreaming: Or Pacifica (a Donna Ward design): I could go on – just look at my gallery of baby quilts! I am also partial to limes in cooking […]
Food
My Martha Stewart Moment
Here are some of my hot cross splotch buns that I took over to our wonderful neighbours, Len & Marge (a couple in their late-70s who shame us with their energy and verve – not to mention their thriving garden): And I came home with some freshly baked “vegetable bean puffs”:
National Cuisines
Well today is Australia Day and it so happens that I have some lamb to cook on the barbeque this evening so maybe I’ll get a gold koala stamp for being a good little vegemite. There was no decent lamb available when we were in the United States but there were lots of other yummy […]
Strawberry Jam
A couple of weeks ago I went to a concert by Michelle Shocked. I was only familiar with a handful of her songs and didn’t realise that she had such a diverse repertoire. Indeed, it is many years since I have attended a similar concert and it was very refreshing to find that the venue […]