by Hannah | Jul 27, 2016 | Food, From Hannah, Includes a recipe!
The other week Ria posted a gloriously golden cake – Lavender Honeycake – which looked like summer itself. I could practically smell the thing, as sweet and fragrant as long nights, wafting through my computer screen. If Ria’s cake – tanned and...
by Ria Voros | Jul 20, 2016 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal
Salad days. Youth, summer, innocence. We can stand to get a little Shakespearean sometimes, can we not? Lettuce is going to seed in our garden, herbs are fragrant in the air from small hands brushing through them on the way to a game of make-believe. I have a...
by Ria Voros | Jul 6, 2016 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal
Oh, lavender. French gardens, milled soap, summer days, fresh-smelling wardrobes. Cake. No? Not a fan of soapy-tasting cake, as a friend of mine describes lavender in baked goods? Okay. Maybe just look at the photos and skip this next part. Ahem. For...
by Hannah | Jun 29, 2016 | Food, From Hannah, Includes a recipe!, Sweet Little Something
I don’t know about you but this week has me feeling despondent. Is it “the age of foolishness…the winter of despair”? At every turn there seems to be a massacre, a miscarriage of justice, an environmental disaster, political miscreancy, the...
by Ria Voros | May 25, 2016 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!
You know those recipes floating around the web for homemade store-bought things? Like oreo cookies or ice cream sandwiches or animal crackers? So good, right? I, for one, love to feel I’ve won over the food corporations by one-upping them at their own game. So...
by Ria Voros | Apr 27, 2016 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal, Writing
This is the story of what happens when plan-ahead-mum brain meets memory-gap-mum brain. Actually, it’s not really a story so much as a punchline: What do you get when you find the bag of last summer’s cherries in the freezer while rooting around for...
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