Whipped Shortbread – A Christmas Essential!
These delicious, melt-in-the-mouth whipped shortbread cookies are topped with little dollops of frosting and a tiny glace cherry. They’re super easy to make too.
Spelt and Orange Date Squares & ProWare Review
When I was a little girl date squares were a peculiar sweet that only old people ate.
Gluten Free Oatmeal Cranberry-Raisin Pecan Cookies
I go ballroom dancing every week. I’ve been dancing on and off now for around ten years and I love it very, very much. It’s such a wonderful feeling to be gliding across the floor in a swirly dress dancing the Glen Roy foxtrot.
Layered Christmas Jelly Recipe
I loved Christmas as a child (and as an adult I still do!). We always went to our grandparents house for the holiday period and there was always an air of excitement in the days leading up to Christmas.
Oreo Button Cookies
This idea has been filed away in my head for several months now. I’ve been wanting to make home made Oreo cookies for some time and I bookmarked a few recipes which looked interesting and had some really positive comments. When my daughter said she’d like a Coraline themed birthday party this year I …
Free 14″ Fabric Coraline Doll Pattern
This FREE printable Coraline doll pattern contains everything you need to make your own 14-inch high fabric Coraline doll complete with blue hair, cheeky grin, dragonfly clip, yellow raincoat and boots. The daughter of a doll maker Among her numerous skills and talents, my mother turned her hand to doll making when I was a …
Coraline Birthday Cake
My daughter has inherited my tastes for all things quirky and odd. She’s as fond of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (2002) (made into a film by Henry Selick in 2009) as I am, so when I asked if she might like a Coraline themed birthday cake this year I was delighted when she said yes.
Shetland Food Fair 2013
Friday evening I had the great culinary pleasure of a sneak preview of the Shetland Food Fair, the newly relaunched foodie event of the year in Shetland!
Bento Sushi Rice Shapes
My children have been nagging me for ages to make them packed lunches. I admit it, I’m pretty lazy and if I can get away with not doing something I will.
St. Ninian’s Beach, Shetland
St. Ninian’s is the site of one of Shetland’s many perfect beaches and it is one of our favourite family escapes. The beach is the largest active tombolo in the UK connecting the mainland of Shetland, a remote archipelago in the North Sea, to St. Ninian’s Isle, a now uninhabited island.
A Spooktacular Halloween Feast!
I have a confession to make: I absolutely love Halloween. I love Halloween a bit more than a grown adult should love Halloween.
Green Tomato Relish Recipe (Chow Chow)
A gorgeous and vibrant spiced mustard relish made with green tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, cauliflower, celery and onions. My mother used to make this recipe when I was a child growing up in Cape Breton. Prep Time: 2 hours Cooking Time: 1 hour Difficulty: Moderate Green tomatoes, can you eat them? Green tomatoes are not something …
Pumpkin Loaf
Nearly twenty years ago I sat at my grandmother’s dining room table in rural Eastern Canada scoffing slabs of home made pumpkin bread thick with butter and chatting about this, that and the other thing, as granddaughters are wont to do with their grandmothers.
Honey-Caramelised Figs with Cinnamon & Natural Yogurt
Here you have it: my new favourite breakfast. I’m fairly new to the whole eating-of-the-fresh-figs thing, being introduced to them only this year after I saw so many of my fellow food bloggers raving about them.
A Canadian Thanksgiving with Martin Miller’s Gin
It’s been nearly fifteen years since I packed that big green Army Surplus rucksack with all my worldly possessions and moved thousands of miles across the pond from my home on the East Coast of Canada to new beginnings on a remote archipelago in the North Sea.
Spiced Cranberry Sauce
I love cranberry sauce. A Thanksgiving or Christmas meal isn’t complete without it, in my opinion.
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
One of my favourite meals growing up was spaghetti with a jar of Ragu sauce poured over the top. I could never get enough of it. To me that dish represents the ultimate in comfort food, and I am known still, as an adult, to eat it on occasion.
Vampire Lady Fingers
Halloween was A Big Thing where I grew up in rural Canada. During the entire month of October village gardens and windows would be adorned with Halloween and Autumn themed decorations.
Great Homemade Soups: A Cook’s Collection
“Soups are so versatile that there is one to match your mood and appetite whatever the meal and whatever the season”
Bear Paws (Old Fashioned Soft Molasses Cookies)
Soft spiced molasses cookies; ideal for when you’re going on an adventure! When I was a girl growing up in rural Canada I used to bake an old fashioned soft molasses cookie recipe. I don’t know where the original recipe came from, being handed down from somewhere, but these cookies were one of my favourites.