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Seasonal Fridge-Art: ‘Sumer is Icumen In’
Here’s another one of Mum’s seasonal Fridge-art installments. These pop-up on her fridge from time to time, with art or verses usually spelled out in magnetic scrabble tiles. I never know what is going to pop-up and when I stayed with Mum in early summer I discovered this… Right now you are […]
Posted in Pot Luck (miscellaneous)
High-Tea at Petit Fours
‘There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea’ – Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady. I couldn’t agree more, Henry James was right on the mark here. At mid-afternoon, my workmates and I went out for a special high-tea and we […]
Posted in Cakes and Cupcakes, Pot Luck (miscellaneous)
Autumn is Here: A Poetry Lesson
A few blogs ago we had a physics lesson (along with the Red Velvet Cupcakes), then we had an English language lesson (in the blog about Whoopie Pies), today we are going to study the English language again, but this time with a poetry lesson, deconstructing E.E. Cumming’s poem “l(a” written in 1958. This poem, […]
Posted in Pot Luck (miscellaneous)
Walnut Whip Whoopie Pies by Claire Ptak
Walnut Whip Whoopie Pies by Claire Ptak (and Recipes for Fillings and Icings) These have ground almonds and ground walnuts in the mixture and the whoopie pies halves are held together with marshmallow filling. Chocolate icing adorns the top, and walnut halves sit on top of the chocolate icing. Walnut Whip Whoopie […]
Posted in Cakes and Cupcakes, Icings and Fillings, Nuts
Baby Shower Morning Tea
Maternity leave was beckoning a member of the team I work with, so my team-mates hosted a Baby Shower morning tea. We all contributed towards this happy event to see my team-mate onto the next stage of her journey, a baby girl. The team I work in is the team that is known for our legendary parties, (we do […]
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