Sweet Stuff

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...

Placemat and a King Cake

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...