I’m sending you flowers for Mother’s Day! Click on the links to pick a bouquet or 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~ Lilacs & Daylight, Lilacs & Viburnum~ Strawberry Fields Salad with Nasturtiums & Violas How to…
I’m joining The Novel Bakers for Beatrix Potter and Bunny Week and ending on a sweet note. . . I found a Peter Rabbit Cupcake Kit which called for a batch of Peter Rabbit Cupcakes, complete with Jemima Puddle-Duck, Tom Kitten and Benjamin Bunny! So I found a recipe for Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes~ a recipe that everybunny…
I’m joining The Novel Bakers for Beatrix Potter (and Bunny) Week! Cucumber and Strawberry Salad hopped from the pages of The Beatrix Potter Country Cooking Book. The Beatrix Potter Country Cooking Book by Sara Paston-Williams: Inspired by the works of Beatrix Potter and her own love of traditional cookery, it is divided into 11 sections, each containing…
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