Work at Home

I had to make photo collages of my exhibition idea for the degree work I’m doing in the UK. I procrastinated forever, but it was a valuable exercise. The best one was of the Halcrow house from the front with ten blue quilts flapping.

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cut-ups

I experimented yesterday and did a twist on the traditional mazarins, which are small pastries made of short crust filled with almond paste and then glazed. However I used toasted oat flour and rhubarb instead of normal flour and basic almond paste filling. The toasted out flour provides a lovely nutty flavour that goes very well with the sweetness of the almond paste and the tanginess of the rhubarb.

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Toasted oat flour mazarins with rhubarb

Kitchen Studio, a self-proclaimed “innovative, high-tech culinary club” opens this weekend in a 250m² loft in Boulogne, one of Paris’s twenty-something arrondissements. The inaugural weekend hints of several surprises with a series of cooking classes, demonstrations and workshops—all free—starting Saturday at 11am and running through out the day, culminating at 19h00 with a culinary spectacle by ” Les Coqs en Pâte “.  Sunday morning gets started with a brunch workshop entitled “So British” and ends with a giant goûter (snack) at 16h00 with the authors of La Cuisine des Papas .

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Kitchen Studio

NOW SHIPPING!!!! Barnes and Noble – Amazon To celebrate the release (now shipping) of 101 Snappy Fashions , I am giving away a goodie pack each week for the next few weeks. The goodies are themed by chapter and will include a signed copy of the book, a grand prize and a few fun extras! Keep coming back each week and enter to win another set of goodies. Follow my blog , my facebook or my twitter to stay in touch! This giveaway is worth $115!!! I have 4 weeks of Giveaways after this week! Check back each week for the next giveaway

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Week 7 – 101 Snappy Fashions Giveaway

These handcrafted garden markers are not your ordinary garden-variety markers. They can be customized to any plant you may have growing in your garden.

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DIY Thursday: Make Your Own Garden Markers

Tasty Tuesday: Banana Bread In my house we love banana bread! My hubby and I, have two things we make with ripe bananas; banana smoothies and banana bread.

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Tasty Tuesday: Banana Bread

We often joke about Lycoris squamigera, those late summer flowering members of the Amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae, because when they bloom, the leaves are long gone. Some people refer to these plants as Surprise Lilies because “surprise”, the blooms show up long after the foliage has died back. Others call them Resurrection Lilies because they die back and then the flowers shows up just when

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The Clothed Ladies of Spring

Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, While I wait for the lawn to dry out so I can mow it, I thought I’d dash off this quick letter to get you caught up on my past week in the garden. First off, the weather. We set two new records for high temperatures this past week, with temperatures around 82 F on a couple of days.

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Dear Friends and Gardeners: April 5, 2010

Reading Jeana Marie’s post about dyeing easter eggs with onion skins and silk with her daughters gave me a pang, and I dug out these ancient eggs. The two large ones are goose eggs, and they are at least 24 years old. I know that we moved across Ontario with them.

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easter nostalgia

Happy Easter to all my blog readers! It was another gorgeous day here in the Ottawa Valley, so Todd and I took full advantage of that going for a 9k walk on the Trans-Canada Trail.  We’re very lucky in that its not too far from our home (just a 5 minute drive), but its somethign we don’t take advantage of.  Today we did, and walked one section of the trail 4.5k in one direction then 4.5k back,

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A Spring-y Small