Making Flower Compound Butter is easy and beautiful with edible flowers, and adds a ‘wow’ factor for a shower, garden club lunch or treat at the breakfast table! I discovered this simple and beautiful idea, last year in Cooking with Flowers, a delicious mix of food and flowers and possibly the most beautiful cookbook I have ever seen! This book would…
I’m counting down to spring and readying the Potting Shed for planting! To bide my time until the threat of frost is over, I planted some instant blooms for inspiration . . . Tole trays to serve up flowers and provide colorful painted blooms, freshly picked from a consignment shop instead of a nursery. A…
I’m sending you flowers for Mother’s Day! Click on the links to pick a bouquet or have a bite :) Flowers for Mother’s Day, Oakleaf Hydrangeas and a Strawberry Bellini~ My Grandmother’s Flower Garden Lilacs and Open Face Cucumber Sandwiches Frosted Brownie Bites with Violas~ Coming Up Roses Dear French Hydrangea~ Lilacs & Daylight, Lilacs & Viburnum~ Strawberry Fields Salad with…
Cooking with Flowers is a delicious mix of food and flowers and possibly the most beautiful cookbook I have ever seen! It makes me want to plant Roses, Tulips, Hollyhocks, Daylilies, Dianthus and it forever changed my opinion on Dandelions~ I’ll never curse one again :) When I first saw this cookbook on Jain’s beautiful blog,…
“Just living is not enough. . . One must have sunshine. . . Freedom. . . And a little flower.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen. A few beautiful books never hurt either :) Wishing you some sunshine and a little flower! Thank you for your visit, I’m joining: Metamorphosis Monday, Tutorials Tips and Tidbits, Wow Us Wednesdays, Be Inspired Friday, Feathered…
Our freeze date guideline for planting spring & summer annuals is April 15th~ I’ve been ready for the bloom, enjoying violas that will tolerate cold temperatures~ Patience is not my forte so I’m getting a jump-start in my seed box in my Potting Shed. Although not patient enough to plant from seed :) Wishing you Happy…
Ready for the Bloom! Happy Spring! Thank you for your visit, I’m joining: Wow Us Wednesdays, Be Inspired Friday, Feathered Nest Friday, Seasonal Sundays
The Violets of March **** by Sarah Jio I’m joining Jain at Food for Thought, a delicious blog for readers with an appetite for the written word. “In a mystical place where violets bloom out of season and the air is salt drenched, a heartbroken woman stumbles upon a diary and steps into the life of its…