Saturday, November 20, 2010

Baking French Morsels

I've been enjoying baking French morsels lately, French Macarons and Madeleines in particular. They are really scrumptious treats indeed; I have to stop myself from eating too much of them. Have you tried to bake those? Do you like them? I found the process of making the macarons a bit more time-consuming and finicky and they are rather sweet to eat, they were supposed to be pink (strawberry flavour), but I didn't add enough pink food colouring ( I must've been too well conditioned not to have food colouring in food) to make them turn out pink enough. Good thing is my kids still absolutely loved them whether they were pink or not. The Madeleines were simple and easy-peasy to make but disappeared extremely quickly as soon as they were out of the oven. If you asked me if I would bake them again, I would say I would. ( I would love to make Mint Green Macarons next time!)Thanks for coming by here, have a lovely weekend; Till next time.

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Spring Garden Update

I have finally organised my recent Spring garden pictures and here are a portion that I compiled for you to see. So let's go for a stroll in the garden, shall we? I'll let the pictures take the lead. So there you have it, the tour of my little garden, hope you didn't get bored. I have to say after staring at the mostly white and green of the climbers growing on the fence for the whole winter while the roses were pruned, I'm now quite glad to see colours everywhere when I look out the windows. Have a colourful week, everyone.

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

When Burlap Meets Roses

On a hot day, I like to cut some of the roses' blooms and bring them inside to enjoy, I figure it's better than them getting dried up out in the sun. However, before I brought these blooms in, I set them up for a little photo session outside, and these are some of the pictures for you my dear friends. I love the way the texture of the burlap shows in pictures, I think burlap looks great together with roses.I hope you are enjoying your week, I want to thank you lovely ladies who sent me very encouraging e-mails recently, I will reply to your requests and questions as soon as I can, you ladies are a wonderful bunch. I love hearing from you, thank you so much.  Roses used here are Jude the Obscure (yellow, peachy, David Austin), Jubilee Celebration (pink, David Austin) and Radio Times (pink, David Austin)