Made by MeghanChocolate was the request for this birthday, so I obliged with a fudge chocolate cake, chocolate cream cheese icing, chocolate flowers (from Chocolate Arts) Â and a little bit of fresh local strawberry compote. Here are the two cake halves, the strawberry filling and the chocolate cream cheese icing, which, I must admit, I (heavily) sampled. […]
Tomorrow I will puree this bad boy and the flea beetles plaguing the tomatoes will flee in terror…. FLEE in TERROR…. Muah… ha… ha!!!! Â As a side note, I doubt it would work on zombies, but vampires, now they would absolutely loathe it! Err, yes. Â The recipe can be found on page 117 in Gayla […]
Check out this fun online interview with me about the origins of SiftingRealities in my Creator’s Corner by SciFinal.
A bunch of little seedlings made their transitions out into the big wide world of the garden this weekend, and I thought, as a collection, they made a sweet, though photo heavy, blog post (I think there are too many commas in that last sentence…). I requested a cool three-tier wooden pot to house another […]
This is the sixth episode of my web series SiftingRealities.  At the end of episode 4, Belinda seems to think she’s got this whole “sifting” thing under control, but does she?  Oh, those are shortbread cookies she is making and eating in the final scene… I’ll post the recipe later on today.
These cookies are featured in SiftingRealities Episode Four: NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE (more info in post below). Â They are super easy. Â No mixmaster needed. Â Just mix everything in the pot that you use to melt the butter. Melt the butter, remove pan from heat, and mix all the ingredients straight into the pot by […]
In our fifth episode of SiftingRealities, Belinda attempts to exert some sort of control over the craziness she thinks her brain is projecting… if the pills won’t work perhaps she can find away to stop the other realities from bleeding into her own… “I’m not as judgemental as you always make me seem.” Â Ah, Marie […]
So I finally got a knitting project off the needles… Roger Socks by Anne Hansen for Michael. Â I’ve been feeling guilty because two sets of Michael’s handmade socks have recently (mysteriously!?) been felted in the dryer and his remaining pair has developed holes (as hand knit socks often do, especially when there are nails popping […]
As seen in SiftingRealities: Episode Three: ZOMBIE IN THE GARDEN (see post below for more info) Belinda, not knowing what to do with Annie once she has rescued her from the back yard, defaults to her comfort zone: baking, specifically, she bakes gingerbread cookies. Â Here is the recipe I (therefore she) uses: The dough (ready […]
This episode was my favourite on the page, a worry in the casting (boy, was I silly, because the cast additions: Eliza Faria, who plays Annie and Sebastian Kroon, who plays Courier/Zombie Stan totally rock), and took the longest to cut/tweak/colour but, through all that, I STILL think it is my all round favourite episode. […]