Another Monday morning after another busy weekend. I was sitting at the table drinking my tea, enjoying a quiet moment, and wishing for a very long and extended quiet moment – like about 3 or 4 hours long or so. I heard the first sounds of children waking; the movement in the upstairs bedroom, the sound the curtain rings make… Read More »Making Waffles
After a week long heat wave, yesterday’s rain brought in much cooler temperatures and lower humidity, so cooking was much more manageable this morning. Sophie asked for “those flat pancake things that you put jelly in and roll up” for breakfast. It’s been a while since I made Swedish Pancakes, so I was happy to oblige. Unfortunately, we have no… Read More »Swedish Pancakes and Homemade Lemon Curd
We live near a farm that sells fresh, raw, unprocessed milk and we’ve been buying our milk there for several years. I used to skim the cream from the milk the day we brought it home and set it aside in the refrigerator for making butter, or whipping for desserts, or using in other cooking and baking, but then the… Read More »Making Homemade Raw Cream Butter
We had several oranges and a few grapefruits sitting on our counter. The kids weren’t eating them fast enough and I already had to toss a couple that were too far gone to do anything with. I had thought about making orange cake, but with one child needing dairy free, two children needing gluten free, one needing egg free, and… Read More »Jars of Sunshine
Hello my neglected blog friends! I won’t bore you with all the things that have been keeping me away from posting here because that would be, well, boring. And rather than trying to compose a “what I’ve been up to” post which would take forever and keep me away even longer, I’ll just dive right into my reason for posting… Read More »Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Egg Free, Almond Free, and Blueberry Free Coffee Cake
I went to bed last night knowing that a cold had taken hold, but other than upping my vitamins a bit and drinking more tea than usual, I didn’t have the energy to do anything else. This morning I felt even worse. Knowing that our calendar was clear for the day, and the weather being what it is – icy/rainy/sleety,… Read More »Roasted Garlic Soup
It happened one day, that two young maids, had a hunger for something sweet. So they opened the cookbooks and looked all around for recipe of something to eat. They spied just the one, and read it aloud and checked it once and then again. For this recipe was perfect, just the right match to make and to share with a friend. They… Read More »When the Girls Bake, a poem
Poor Sophie really felt like she missed out. Her birthday was a little over a month ago, and we celebrated with gifts and a treat at Sweet Frog with some friends. But she didn’t get a birthday cake, and she’s been asking for one ever since. So when I was looking for something quick to bake for a day of… Read More »Baking Tooth Fairies
I haven’t been posting for a while, not because I haven’t wanted to, but because I was working on my blog and made a couple of big mistakes and haven’t had time to fix them yet. But I really miss posting. I’ve taken lots of pictures that I wanted to post so I can look back at them someday and… Read More »Maxed Out
Homing:: After moving things in and out and around Maddie’s room (which is still not quite done) I had a chance to make some changes in other corners of our cottage. One of them was moving a tall bookcase out of Maddie’s room and into the little girls’, which made the coziest of reading corners. Made even better by moving… Read More »In and Around the Cottage