by Bob Pennycook | Apr 5, 2013 | Art, Art techniques, Food and Drink
This must mean spring. Sweet sticky syrup that I pour on everything. The syrup in the Mason jar is made by my neighbour. He taps a number of sugar maples along our streets and cooks it up in his sugar shack on his back lot. The willows from our yard have flowered so... by Bob Pennycook | Feb 12, 2013 | Art, Food and Drink
While I could have made this king cake to celebrate the Epiphany, I waited until Mardi Gras, the end of the king cake season , to make my cake. We discovered the story of the king cake on a visit to New Orleans and appreciated that a confection could have such a...