being not doing

The first pie before it went into the oven (after which it didn’t last long enough for more pictures!). In preparation for hosting our family Christmas this year, I baked and froze two tourtières for Christmas Eve. Although the pies are the traditional French-Canadian Christmas Eve meal, and I am in fact French-Canadian, I mostly [...]

Apparently, I am getting a blizzard for my birthday. While that puts the kibosh on the super secret birthday plans downtown, a foot of snow is a pretty good substitute (especially since the plans can be revisited after the holidays). Hopefully it won’t prevent folks from gathering here for Christmas, but it’s going to be [...]

I don’t have a picture to share, because I am too lazy to pull all the jars out of the cupboard and clear off the dining room table to take one, but I have even more canning to report! Once the Granny Smith apples came into season, I was able to make the traditional brandied [...]