The end of January certainly brought us decent snow. Time of the year! Last week we canned 19 pints of apple butter. Here it is cooking down. And after we added the spices. Despite my tardiness in posting, we had a nice thanksgiving.

A Pot of Tea and a Biscuit. Thursday, 27 August 2015. Sweet Potato Tortilla with Spinach and Peppers. Portree Harbour, Isle of Sky. Rotmoosalm, Leutasch, Austria. And probbaly thanks to scaling the odd mountain.

For the September 2009 Daring Cooks challenge, our host, Debyi. From The Healthy Vegan Kitchen. A dash of onion flakes.

Conscious living natural cooking inspired style. Tuesday, 26 February 2013. I am calling on us to restart this amazing blog! To continue our idea to stay in touch with blog posts when phone calls, texts, skype, emails and real-live-human visits are not possible. Wednesday, 1 August 2012. stay tuned! Wednesday, 9 March 2011.

Thursday, July 26, 2012. Fleur de Sel Double Chocolate Cookies. Nothing inspires me to bake more than tasting something amazing baked by someone else. Since the kitchen was half unpacked, there was only water and Diet Coke in the fridge, and it was 104 degrees.

Despite frequent sweeping and mopping, there always seems to be a thin film of flour covering my kitchen floor. We all need familiar ground under our feet from time to time. Sunday, November 22, 2009. Give these a try, and feel free to double or triple the recipe to make them for a crowd.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011. South Beach Food and Wine Festival - Food, Wine, Sand and Celebs. Friday, March 11, 2011. How and Why to Decant a Bottle of Wine. Then came the heckles from The Editor. You dont like my gift. You say you like wine, but you never use the decanter I got you. I spent a lot of time looking for that decanter. That thing just sits up there.

Meandering thoughts on baking, writing, and other quotidian pleasures. Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Wednesday, July 23, 2014.

Sunday, January 27, 2013. The deaths of Rob Castor and his girlfriend begin a wrenching and enthrallingly suspenseful story that mines the explosive terrains of love and paternity, marriage and its delicate intricacies, family secrets and how they fester over time, and ultimately the true nature of loyalty and trust, friendship and envy, deception and manipulation.

Monday was the first day of fall, and, like clockwork, it rained. On Sunday I was complaining about the 90 degree sunshine, and then it was gone. Today, I have the entire day off of work.