back to asia and some more breads

One day this winter I tried to satisfy my craving for spring rolls/egg rolls and make my favorite Vietnamese style rolls. Since I can’t use regular spring roll wrappers, I tried to use spring roll papers - the rice ones. This worked ok. They were sticking to each other and breaking open […]

A few sweets to tempt…and some demi glace

A little story about a tart. My brother was in town for the weekend, babies and wife too. He got up early in the morning on Sunday and pulled out my Rebecca Reilly GF cook book and made a pastry dough and filled with the pear tart. But first he had to […]

Cardinals in the snow

This a picture taken out of our front window.
i’m out

Oh my larb!

I finally uploaded a bunch of photos and will post them here soo, but first, breaking news - oh my larb!!
Ok, so I just made some larb gai - thai chix salad with mint - the type that Lamai Thai (my local delish Thai restaurant )often has. I looked up a recipe […]

And we begin….

Ok,I will admit to less blogging since my laptop fried. But now I have use of my boyfriend’s ignored Apple laptop and life is good again. Be prepared for a barrage of cooking photos and recipes now! I suppose I should take the occasional photo of my knitting projects too. I often […]