holiday entertaining

Do you ever lay in bed and daydream about food? I do – more than I should. Before I drift off to…

In two weeks, Meaghan will marry Theo. All of the dreaming, planning, shopping and organizing will end on a beach in Mexico with…

Cinnamon and sugar on anything is delicious. Ever had it sprinkled over a piece of homemade bread toasted slathered in butter. Damn!…

At the tender age of twelve, sitting alone in a dark movie theatre lost in Franco Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet‘, I was…

I survived Christmas day. There were moments of breathlessness or maybe just not wanting to breathe… Tradition crept in throughout the day,…

For a Maritimer, seafood and Christmas go hand in hand. It’s not that we don’t eat fish and seafood the other eleven…

You’d be hard pressed to knock on any door in the Maritimes and not find a recipe for lobster chowder. It would…

I’m days away from hosting our twelfth ‘Christmas on Carmarthen’ party. The girls were fourteen the first year that we hosted what…

Fruitcake is one of those sweets that people either love or politely refuse. It’s an old-fashioned dessert that was lovingly ‘put up’…

Dark Chocolate Shortbread Cookies are a delectable journey of indulgence. The velvety embrace of rich, buttery shortbread perfectly complement the intensity of…