Category Food
Coconut, Ginger, and Banana Pancakes.
Happy Pancake Day! …or Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, or whatever you call it. This day last year, we had everyone round to our house and whipped up a whole load of pancakes for everyone, in our annual Pancake Day Pancakeathon. This year is slightly different, as we don’t have oodles of people to […]
Apricot and Almond Tarts.
……..or, how I just had to make pastry in order to try out my new toy! When my Mum visited in January, they had brought with them their paper from the plane. Inside the paper was one of those Lakeland catalogue leaflets that you get inside magazines…… *DANGER!* I find it very difficult to resist […]
Lime Curd, and having too much fun to be posting.
Yeah. It has been a while. But I have had guests! Been busy entertaining and having fun, and I have also been away, as I took them to Portland for a long weekend, and then to Seattle. Lots of fun things occurring. Despite the rain. My friend Lizzie and I also managed to fit in […]
Grävling (the Swedish badger) gets some Pyjamas.
This little project started from something silly. Such a silly story that I’m not sure why I am telling you. Mr M was napping on my shoulder, while we were watching tv, and complaining that it wasn’t comfortable and so using our soft toy badger (an IKEA special, which is why it’s name is Grävling) […]
Lovebird: Agapornis fischeri……. and Yorkshire Puddings.
I have been stuck in a cross stitch rut. I am still working away at my Bristol Balloons cross stitch project, but the easy part is over now (the blocks of colour for the bridge towers), and now I am on the slow to complete foliage. There are 4 different greens, with a non-uniform pattern, […]
Lime and Coconut Butterfly Cakes
This weekend we went away. Away to the land of lights and gambling, over-the-top-ness and still actually allowing smoking indoors. Ick. It was our friend Ashlei’s birthday, and we met up with her in Vegas, spending a few days (mainly) eating and going to see a Cirque show. Mr M had a little play at […]
Banana, Coconut, and Oat Cookies.
I have been trying to make sure I get some sort of daily exercise. Mostly it involves the gym in our complex, but it is a) quite dull, and b) a total waste of living in California! When I can get out with my hiking group it is pretty great, but I can’t always have […]
Chocolate Orange Bundt Cake
At the moment, we have our very first international guests. Our first out of town guests to our place really, as when our friend Ashlei visited from Seattle in December, we were still living in the temporary place, and not feeling quite so settled. Anyhow, my Mum and her husband Jim are here to visit, […]
Hobnob Day 2014
So, alas this year we can’t join in the mass handout on Stokes Croft. Did that stop us from spreading oat-y joy? It did not. I took the opportunity to extend the hand of biscuit-y friendship to our neighbours, packaging up little bags of oat-y biscuit-y joy and popping them on everyone’s doorsteps: I also […]
Seasonal baking: Lavender Shortbread
Today marked an exciting occasion. The first outing, in public, of my lady trolley: Oh yes. I can feel your envious looks from across the interwebs. I got it from Ikea yesterday while ticking off some more stuff from the endless list of odd things we forgot to get last time. Just you wait, next […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 