First of all: Laura, I challenge you to a duel! (You — not your mum, of course. I’m not stupid.)
I just can’t help it, I can’t let St. Patrick’s Day pass without marking it in some way. Soda bread is a requirement. Last year, my mum was visiting and we went out for [...]

So, you don’t want to know what I had for lunch, eh? How about dinner? You think you don’t, but believe me, you do.
But first, let me tell you about the sweet potato-peanut soup. If you are fortunate enough not to have a peanut allergy, this is such an easy and delicious soup to [...]

I did some drawing, scratchboard, and prints on Friday, and froggy here is my favorite of the series. Still working with the speedycut blocks, brayer, and cut-paper prints for simple shapes.
I’ve been working hard on my New Year’s mission to make a new recipe a week from the Rebar book. Since I posted about [...]

The beach near our house is the scene of a local New Year’s Day tradition — the polar bear swim and New Year’s Day Levee, hosted by a family that lives at the end of the beach road. The afternoon’s events include a walk and run through the park to the beach, timed to end [...]

The problem with attempting to make jam is that, if you get it wrong, you do so in large quantities. Anyone for plum, er, sauce? Six mason jars worth, not to mention the extra tub in the refrigerator.
Last week I was putting in a lot of hours on some freelance projects, after spending the [...]

That’s about the sum total of this week’s creative activity. It’s been a week of work deadlines and schedule juggling. The socks have been my bus ride buddies this week, although I have been ripping and knitting a lot so I kind of end up where I started by the end of the commute. Short-row [...]

Look at these gorgeous plummies. They are lit from within with the concentrated light of a Vancouver Island summer day. Even though we moved into our place a year ago, we are discovering a whole new crop of fruit from trees we didn’t know we had. Whether the trees just didn’t bear fruit last year, [...]

Saturday night we had plans to attend a dinner event at a local farm. They bake bread every week in a wood-fired oven, and this weekend they were hosting a pizza-making night. I got a message saying that aprons were recommended . . . well, twist my arm why don’t you? Perfect excuse to try [...]

Yesterday, I was finally able to catch a Red Sox game that was televised out here. They were playing Toronto, so one of the Canadian sports networks had it. Fortunately the CBC is carrying the Stanley Cup playoffs, or I wouldn’t have had a prayer. As it is, I was probably the only person in [...]