food

I’ve made a version of this bread since I was a little girl. My mom’s recipe calls for white flour, raisins and a…

I love lavender. The delicate scent and stunning color calms me. There’s a reason lavender essential oil is used in aromatherapy! I saw it growing…

What doesn’t taste good with bacon in it? Bacon continues to capture the imagination of chefs and home cooks from around the world. Rather than limiting it…

I love the playful images that bumbleberry brings to mind. They sound like a berry that Alice in Wonderland would have picked! However, they…

Christie and her children Mallory and Connor came for their annual summer visit. It seems like just yesterday that they were babes…

Inviting friends to the farm to spend the day with us is always my opportunity to play around with new recipes. Sometimes it…

I loved the reaction I got this week when I told the kids that I had made them homemade marshmallows. “Really –…

I realised while I was slurping back a big plate of cacio e pepe in Rome that I have rarely blogged about any of…

I can’t believe we are leaving Tuesday. Eleven glorious days touring Italy with the ‘witches’. Ralph lovingly nicknamed us years ago… We’ve been planning…

It’s summer and that means it’s bread making season. You would think that the winter would inspire me to bake lovely homey…