Bake with abandon!
I’ve never embraced the spooky side of Hallowe’en. Perhaps that’s because my mother always dressed me as a clown. That’s me as a 3-year-old Chuckles. Sorry it’s so grainy. It’s taken from a 40-plus-year-old roll of 8mm film. For my Hallowe’en post, I debated reviewing …
I was going to post about Hallowe’en candy. Yawn… But then I learned that my Tuesday post for Accidental Hedonist made Reuters UK Lifestyle News. Go ahead. Click both links. You’ll see I’m not lying. I’d like to believe it’s my lively writing, but I’m …
I am in debt to readers. Erik of Homemade Soup Recipes wondered if my Scottish Lentil Soup would taste good without onions. Confused by his question, I reviewed my recipe and realized I’d omitted a key ingredient. The single most popular post on my blog …
What do an Inuksuk and Balvenie Doublewood have in common? Normally not much. But this Inuksuk’s made of homemade shortbreads, a Scottish treat, and Balvenie is… well, if I have to explain you might as well stop reading. This is a not-so-subtle reminder to local …
The gratitude continues. Thanks to Phil, lead guitarist for Sack of Yams and fellow apple enthusiast, we got the heads up that our orchard of choice was overrun with Thanksgiving Day pickers. Good for the apple growers, bad for impatient people like me. Unwilling to …
For real this time. Others, who can be trusted with this kind of thing, called to confirm the orchard: has apples conducts apple picking is open today Chudleigh’s, here we come!