We love salads, especially pasta salads! There’s so many combinations of ingredients and different types of pasta that work so well for an array of hearty pasta salads that are delicious and great for summer barbecues or to enjoy with your meal any time of the year! Let’s get started! Once pasta of your choice…
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
The best part of my day today was baking banana bread (a family favorite) with my daughter! We had ripe bananas that needed to get used up, so what’s better on a cool windy day than fresh banana bread!?! We added chocolate chips to today’s loaf – a lot of them – making this a…
Our Spring At Home Sewing Retreat – Day Four
It’s Day Four — our last day — of our At Home Sewing Retreat! The other days have went great and we actually accomplished a lot! In the past few days we made a couple blocks that we taught each other, my daughter almost finished her petticoat while my other daughter is getting quite good…
Our Spring At Home Sewing Retreat – Day Three
It’s Day Three of our At Home Sewing Retreat! Day Two went great and we got a lot done! Yesterday we made a Disappearing 9 Patch Block and I started my quilt top. My girls worked on their own projects – ‘H’ began working on a petticoat and ‘L’ is working on different blocks including…
Our Spring At Home Sewing Retreat – Day Two
It’s Day Two of our At Home Sewing Retreat! Day One went great and we actually accomplished a lot! Yesterday we made a square in a square exploding quilt block and my daughter finished her lap blanket quilt top and my other daughter worked on an assortment of blocks. Today we will be working on…
Our Spring At Home Sewing Retreat – Day One
It’s Day One of our At Home Sewing Retreat! We have been watching a few ladies going to different sewing retreats over the past few months, travelling, buying an assortment of fabric, sewing different blocks, getting gifts from each other and sharing that with everyone. We can’t go anywhere to attend a retreat, so what…
Cast Iron Cornbread
We love cornbread! It’s a great accompaniment to spicy chili and a variety of other meals. It’s simple to prepare and great, especially if you’re low on flour. Settlers learned different ways to use maize (ground corn) in recipes from various Indigenous tribes. They experimented with ground corn and created cornbread which is bread-like and…
Raspberry-Blueberry White Chocolate Scones
These delicious scones are soft and flaky and filled with raspberries, blueberries and white chocolate. They make a great breakfast, snack or dessert or an accompaniment to a tea party, and go great with a cup of tea or coffee. It is thought that scones (derived from Scottish “bannock”), originated in Scotland in the early…
