Herein lies a philosophical and inwardly thoughtful post. Please bear with me and we may both end up someplace illuminated at the end. Then again, maybe not. *grins* I have had these thoughts marching through my head for a while now, and I’m trying very hard to pull them into a cohesive post. I will endeavor [...]

Ash Wednesday is here and the last few King Cakes are trickling out of the door leaving me with something to say…   Thank You.   Really, thank you. It has been a tremendous King Cake season, much better than I had hoped for way back at the start of the season. We tripled the [...]

After prodding and poking my tech guy (also known as my husband) repeatedly, we can finally unveil our new menu. You can follow this link right here to go and admire how pretty it is now *grins* or if you look under that big logo at the top of the page there’s a tab there. [...]

When thinking of Easter treats these were one of the first things that came to mind. Quick and simple they’re also the perfect treat to make with a child. Chocolate and cereal are mixed and placed in cupcake papers to form the nest, and they’re finished with some candy eggs. I tend to prefer Cadbury’s [...]

As I’m sure we’ve mentioned, Halloween is our favourite time of year. We’ve yet to get on to our holiday baking yet but plans are made and ingredients will be bought soon enough. It is our tradition to hold a Halloween party for all of our friends. We try (where possible) to go all out [...]

I’ll be honest, today’s post is kinda cobbled together. 10 days ago we came back from a two week trip to England, visiting my family and having a good time. I’ve yet to decide if I’m going to write about it here, it’s not food related in any way, either way nothing will be happening [...]

Imagine baking, or cooking, or growing produce, or preserving… now imagine you made, or grew more than you can eat yourself. Imagine that you love sharing food, and food stories, especially with other people who love food as much as you do. Thanks to Kate, of the Hip Girl’s Guide To Homemaking and Megan, of [...]

“There are four basic food groups:  milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles” Chocolate – Theobroma Cacao, the food of the gods. Roughly two-thirds of the entire world’s cocoa is produced in Western Africa. Production costs can be decreased by reducing cocoa solid content or by substituting cocoa butter with another fat. Cocoa [...]

I’m sorry guys, I really didn’t want to do this, and have been busting my ass trying to avoid it. But the holidays are swamping us and with fifty billion things to do before the 25th anything non-essential is getting struck off the list. So the blog is taking a short break, not for long, [...]