I find myself completely fascinated by a certain movement that I see happening all around me, across all fronts, to all sorts of people. It’s a phenomenon that I’m a part of, and one that doesn’t surprise me at all. It’s a return to a lifestyle where everything isn’t automatic. Where baking your own bread [...]
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Candied Meyer Lemons
Today is Dan’s birthday! He’s 26 on this coldest of Sundays and we will be spending an evening out celebrating his birth. I for one am very glad that he was born. As part of the lead-up to his birthday I candied lemons to use as a topping for a lemon meringue pie, which we [...]
Apple Butter
I love toast. I love toast with just butter and a little salt. I love toast with jam, cream cheese, peanut butter, jelly, anything you can smear on toast (within reason) I am a fan of. So it stands to reason that I love apple butter. And I do, I had just never made it [...]
Salted Vanilla Cookies
I have to admit, I don’t make cookies very often. I mean, I like cookies, but when it comes to desserts there are bigger players I’m more interested in. The decision to make these was made, however, the moment I decided to make vanilla salt. Salted vanilla cookies, made with salted butter and topped off [...]
Vanilla Salt
This was a bad week. Actually, the past two weeks have been bad, which is why last week, for the first time in a very long time, there was not a new post in this little corner of the internet. It’s nothing major, just a lot of little stresses at work and at home that [...]












