Friday Specials

Holiday cooking has begun in our house. In addition to the Red Pepper Jelly and the savoury shortbread, I also made cookies for our bakesale and have been leafing through my other cookie recipes I gathered last year in my little baking book. I’ve also bookmarked a couple of beautiful but easy cake ideas that …

Red Pepper Jelly, Cheesy Shortbread and a Minted Giveaway

I’ve been a fan of Minted for many years now. I’ve ordered holiday cards, gift tags and even my sister’s wedding invitations from there. I love their selection created by independent artists, their customer service and the paper quality is amazing. This year they’ve expanded their offering to include ornament cards that I mentioned a couple of weeks …

Friday Specials

This was the first week I was really cold – brrr, those temperatures really dropped for a bit. Looks like this weekend will be lovely though, so I hope we get to spend some time outdoors. On the blog we finally added an email subscription field. If you want to be notified of new posts, …

Friday Specials

Last week I did this little branding exercise. Inspired by House of Brinson’s Styling class I wanted to figure out the colour palette I was subconsciously using in my photographs. I had consciously decided on my actual blog colours (logo, titles, text, sidebar, social media), but I had not paid specific attention to my photo …

Cheesy Leek Tart

One of my favourite things as a child were little leek tarts that you could buy frozen at the grocery store. They were small individual round tarts that my mom made along with cheese tarts and sometimes mushroom tarts. I don’t know where my love for leek comes from – I think the only time …

Friday Specials

Today I’m particularly excited that it’s Friday. We have tickets* to the A Taste of Kingston & The County experience at the Ottawa Wine & Food Festival – a 4 course tasting menu with Chef Clark Day. It’s going to be a unique culinary tour, perfectly paired with premium wines from Prince Edward County. Not only …

Friday Specials

This week has been somewhat relaxed – just going through our routine. The temperature dropped this week and we got our first frost. The kids were happy to rummage through the Halloween decorating box and we started adding a couple of creepy things here and there. We’ll be decorating for Halloween this weekend and maybe …