Found: Vintage patterned bread pan.
Too rusty to use but pretty on the eyes.
My idea: to plant it with assorted thyme and sit it on my counter top.
I love the look and fragrance of thyme.
I chose three varieties: lime, lemon and oregano.
First I put down some small stones for drainage.
Then I planted the three plants and covered the soil with a little moss.
Perfect in my kitchen until the spring when I will transfer them to the herb pot on my porch.
Found: One children's cook book from 1951. A picture cook book!
I had to try something out of it right away. Something easy. I didn't want to get in over my head. heehee.
So I chose...
It sounds like one of those recipes you would invent when you were little.
Before the oven.
Here it is. Peter's Peanut -Butter Pixie. It even looks retro!
How was it?
Well, kind of like a bite size fluffernutter s'more and instead of chocolate (which would have made this oh so delish) is a cinnamon 'cherry' on top. Totally weird. But I like it.
My husband made us dinner last night from the Anthony BourdainLes Halles cookbook he received as a Christmas present. He went to the market to get all of his ingredients and enthusiastically pursued his 'in another life' dream of being a chef. I glanced at the recipe and saw that it called for one sprig of flat parsley yet there was a bunch of curly parsley sitting on the counter. When I asked him about it he pointed to the pie serving knife and said, in all seriousness, "I know. I tried flattening it out the best I could."
He realized after I burst out laughing that maybe there was really such a thing as flat parsley. The kind that came already flattened straight from the fields. Why a pie server as a flattening tool? He said he looked, but couldn't find a mallet.
Real life in the kitchen makes me smile. And dinner was delicious.
Lying in bed this morning I was brainstorming ideas of things to make. I happened to check my phone and saw these unbelievable photos that my friend had posted on facebook of his friend Lukka Sigurdardottir who made this seriously unbelievable cake. All of my ideas seem so small in comparison! Not only has Lukka mastered the checkered cake, but she has taken it to a whole new level. I am in awe and inspired. I had to share these with you.
Ahhhh, nothing makes holiday eggnog taste better than drinking it from a moose mug!
I ordered these last year from canadianmoose.com.
It makes for the Hap-hap-happiest Christmas...
