I love watching the garden grow. In just 2 weeks, the garden has made great progress. Much of the seeds we planted have come up. It is a little difficult at this point to sometimes distinguish between a weed and a plant! We had pulled out a whole row of rosemary last year, thinking it…
May Garden Update with Our City Homestead
Oh the start of the gardening season. How I love this time of year. Planning what we are going to grow, picking out our seeds and plants, the fresh spring air. It is all wonderful. After a long winter, it is exciting to be able to get back into the garden. We have our plot…
Vanilla Snow Ice Cream
Winter can feel long sometimes, so enjoying snow however we can is a must! When it snows and blizzards (and sometimes it can snow a lot), I often place a couple bowls outside to catch fresh snow to make snow ice cream. We have been making snow ice cream for several years. It is something…
A Family Valentine’s at Fort Edmonton Park
I love learning about history, especially about food, and attending events at living history museums and parks with costumed interpreters. It is such a great way to learn about our community’s past! I am so pleased that my daughters share that love of history of days gone by. We have spent a great deal of…
Lemon Scones
These lemon scones are a light, tender scone that is more like a biscuit but equally delicious! My daughters attended an on online baking class as part of their homeschooling class over the weekend, and they learned how to make these scrumptious lemon scones. The neatest thing is the teacher who is also a pastry…
Cookie Pizza
This delicious giant cookie is meant to be an individual cookie, but it is large enough that we all shared together! It is made with just a few ingredients topped with a yummy ganache and decorated with more chocolate. My girls learned this cookie recipe in an online class from Bake with Caramella who is…
Original Vanilla Nanaimo Bars
Nanaimo Bars was always a family favorite with walnuts in the base along with chocolate, graham cracker crumbs and coconut while the middle was always a creamy vanilla buttercream-type filling made with custard powder and then topped with a rich chocolate. Everything perfect in a bar or square that we usually had on special occasions, when company came over or through the holidays! You’ll enjoy this tasty treat too!
