I admit, I've been bad about posting regularly this last year. It's been busy and hectic and whole months slip by unnoticed ( Read more... )

The fall weather is well and truly here ... cool nights, frosty mornings, and a craving for hot comfort foods, easy to make easy to eat, and smothered in gravy/sauce of some kind.

In this a slow cooker, and/or a big cast iron enamel dutch oven are your friends.
This week was ox tail stew - in the slow cooker for a market decorating day potluck
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Woah..... six months since I last posted?? How insane is that ( Read more... )

So, I was diagnosed with Type2 Diabetes last Thursday ( Read more... )

Geez, I haven't updated in forever..... work, and new job applications and ... Life getting in the way of art ( Read more... )

Riverview Farms has had a bumper crop of cranberries this year, and of course, I'm making the best of it ( Read more... )

First wee bit of decorating done, picked up a wonderful fresh evergreen wreath and got it all done up with a few bits and bobs and a wee string of lights..... I'm liking the results.

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Depressing thought for this morning...... the attacks in Paris, even amongst moderates I know who are wise and circumspect and know "not all Muslims" see this event as affirmation that we need to keep up the pressure on Syria and for Canada to not remove our fighter jets and to keep bombing the country and keep taking in refugees (which we have ( Read more... )

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Since we moved to Nova Scotia, James and I haven't been doing a lot of dining out. We used to go out for dinner quite regularly - as in a weekly date night. However, truth be told it got to be more and more difficult as my own culinary skills improved, it became harder to justify paying restaurant prices for food I could do myself only better at ( Read more... )