My dear friend Simone from Junglefrog Cooking and Scribbles&Notes and her partner Tom are adopting triplets this week and it is a wonderful reason to celebrate and have a kitty shower! Yes a kitty shower! Simone and Tom are taking the leap of adopting three kittens at once. Are they crazy? No they have fallen ...

Easter: rabbit, eggs, basket, bonnet, chocolate, chickadees and for me woolly sheep and lambs. I don’t want to offend anyone but I am not religious and therefore my associations are not religiouseither. However I do appreciate religious music and “All we like sheep” pops into my head when I think of Easter. Having sung Handel’s ...

Neil Perry’s introduction to his upcoming new cookbook Easy Weekends is honest, personal and suits the book to a T! His hope in writing this lovely cookbook was “that this book helps you cook, inspires you to buy quality ingredients and makes you want to cook for your friends and family.” Yes thank you Mr. ...

Is breaking your traditions a good thing or a bad? Does it show adaptation and a willingness to embrace change or do we miss it like a part of us that has been broken off? For most of the last 10 years on New Years Eve my husband and I have reveled in our hotel ...

Saturn peaches look like a peach that someone sat on. They are called Saturn peaches because they look like the rings of Saturn naturally they are also called doughnut or donut peaches because they look like a ….right, donut. They originated in China and were cultivated in the United States and Europe starting in the late 1800’s. In ...