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…
Dip, Dip, Hooray
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 »
Almond And Cherry Mini Cakes
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…
Continuing through dawn at one of the Vermilion Lakes
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 »
Orange Spice Cookies
I whipped up some of these cookies. It fits right in for a Halloween treat. Here’s what you’ll need: 1/2 cup & 6 T. butter or butter-flavored shortening 1/2 c. brown sugar 1/2 c. granulated sugar 1 tsp. orange extract 2 eggs dash salt 1/2 tsp. allspice 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 tsp. nutmeg 1 tsp.…Read more »
Flashback Friday – squabbling geese on Two Jack
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 »
Blue Jay
Our bird feeders are too small for the bigger birds to safely land and feed. So I took an old bird bath and poured critter food in it. The blue jays loved it.
What to do with Unused Medications
It happens to many of us. You open a cupboard or medicine cabinet and realize there are medications that are no longer used or have expired. If the medications are a year old or longer then they have lost their potency. How do you get rid of them safely? Here are a few tips: The…Read more »
A chickadee surrounded by autumn
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 »
Fall Colors
I took this while on a walk. I love how the colors contrast one another.