Originally posted on Cooking Up The Pantry:
Six ingredients make this a seriously tasty dish that’s as simple as combine, bake and baste. If you don’t have lingonberry sauce, cranberry sauce works just as well! You can mix the ingredients the day before you bake them if you want and this freezes well, just add…

BitterSweet In the battle for snack supremacy, the competition is fierce, but a few front runners have emerging from the pack. Potential winners are obvious from any vantage point in the bleachers, if you just take a moment to look at the odds. Think back and try to remember the last time you attended a…Read more »

Originally posted on Cooking Up The Pantry:
With the start of cricket season here in Western Australia it is time to get back to baking for the shared morning teas when the boys play matches at their home ground. These are lovely sweet treats that disappear quickly. Any leftovers freeze very well and are perfect…

Christopher Martin Photography When I arrived at the second Vermilion Lake and scrambled down to the shoreline I was alone and in darkness.  Once I turned off my headlamp my eyes adjusted and a thin line brightening to the east.  Mount Rundle stood resolutely across the water and I started to make out clouds as…Read more »

looks like the geese are dancing Christopher Martin Photography The ice started to recede on Two Jack Lake in late April this year.  Waterfowl was drawn to the open water as they migrated back to Banff National Park.  Some birds were resting briefly before continuing further north.  For a small gaggle of Canada geese, they…Read more »

Christopher Martin Photography This black-capped chickadee chirped and sang from the woods beside a small peninsula on Upper Kananaskis Lake.  I sat down and waited for a little while to see if it would come into view.  They are curious little birds and it didn’t take long for this one to perch among the golden…Read more »