I’m celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with The Wearing of the Green! Ireland is a land that boasts 40 shades of green, so I’m dressing the table with a multi-hued cloth~ outfitted with shamrocks and adorned with pots of gold. Instead of corned beef, I’m dishing up flowers to serve with my cabbage. Alstroemeria is springing from a…
It’s Time to Spring Forward~ And enjoy the Daffodils~ Ambassadors & Harbingers of Spring~ . . .their cheery faces eagerly seeking & following the sunshine~ just like mine :) . . .and time to welcome the Growing Season~ “A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” ~…
The Matchmaker of Perigord **** by Julia Stuart I’m joining Jain at Food for Thought, a delicious blog for readers with an appetite for the written word. “Barber Guillaume Ladoucette has always enjoyed great success in his tiny village in southwestern France, catering to the tonsorial needs of Amour-sur-Belle’s thirty-three inhabitants. But times have changed. His customers have…
I’m working on a St. Paddy’s Day table~ daily life & a book report due on Friday :) kept me from finishing this week. In the meantime it occurred to me how often I find myself reaching for the same dishes~ For Holidays and Halloween Treats~ July 4th & Oh, Say Can You See. . . A Gardener’s Christmas~ For…
I’m not Irish, but I’m happy to pay homage to the potato to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day~ I’ve never met a potato I didn’t like ~ potatoes are my kryptonite~ and I can think of nothing more tragic than a potato famine :) I found a recipe from Southern Living for Irish Potato Soup that I…
We had a beautiful, sunny 75 degree day on Thursday when I noticed my neighbors Plum Leaf Plum tree (or Cherry Plum) blooming. My plan was to snap some photos of blooms Friday against a background of Carolina Blue sky but Mother Nature had other plans. Heavy rains and tornadoes from the line of storms…