If you have never awoken to freshly baked muffins and coffee in bed, I feel for you.

I strongly recommend the experience.

And now everyone at work is jealous of me.

Here's the recipe for the amazing (if I do say so myself) healthy breakfast cake.

It has apples! It has oatmeal! It has yoghurt! That makes it health food!

The recipe is adapted from Anne Lindsay's Smart Cooking (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1986); I added the apples and oats ( Read more... )

Boy are you all going to rue the day I bought a digital camera.


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Posted for the reminder.
( Cut for them as don't care. And there's no reason you should, really. )

1 onion, chopped ( Read more... )

Into each LJ must eventually come a post about tech. issues. It's a Law of the Intarwebs ( Read more... )

It's 18h30, and the soup is soup, awaiting the ravioli. The cake is dresssed and sitting in the fridge. The cookies are arranged on a platter. The cider is mulling on the stove. The pastries are in the fridge, awaiting baking (my brother won't be here until 7:30, so there's no point in baking things that taste better warm until closer to the time ( Read more... )

I have remembered why I like holidays.

The shopping is almost done. I ran out of cash at the cheese store, which only takes cash, so I need to get some crackers for the cheese tomorrow, and maybe a couple of serving platters and spoons, since we are not well dowered in the serving dishes and utensils department ( Read more... )

Dear Household Sprites ( Read more... )