drooling

I know its been far too long and I'm sorry about that.. but here's a little something to drool over.. that help? If you want to make me really jealous you can hop on over to Etsy here and buy this.

randomly yummy

When we had dinner guests yesterday, I knew I wanted to try some new appetizers. So I embarked on a little internet searching and happened upon the McCormick Seasonings Website. With little more than Brie and a loaf of sourdough bread, our guests were raving about the Bloomin Brie Bowl from the website. The only change we made was adding chopped sun dried tomatoes to the mix, but it worked. Loved this and have to make it again! Definitely a website worth checking out!

is this thing on?

umm, ya I didn't forget how to turn the laptop on.. it's just been busy. Really busy. Soon I'd like to make up for it, I have a couple completed projects and once photographed I hope to be blogging up a storm.. In the mean time, here's E's hungry caterpillar. 2 strips of green construction paper, some stickers and 2 buttons. Bam- you've got yourself a cute little caterpillar.

spring flowers and pies on the windowsill

Tulips are my most favourite-est flower and I'm so happy that The Tulip festival has started! We're having great weather this weekend so I can't wait to get the kids out to see it!

We're still food obsessed here and the Mr. is getting a reputation for making fabulous risotto. This is his roasted red pepper and bacon risotto bubbling away. Spicy!

Some of our summer herbs are planted and happily growing.

My first Lemon Meringue Pie is cooling. I can't wait to try it!

With the prospect of all of us going to school in the fall we have so much we want to cram into this summer. The kids have theme summer camps, we're cottaging, visiting with friends, taking mini trips and exploring our own city. We are hoping that this can be the year we are all biking so we can start taking rides thru the city and on the trails.
Every year we try to get more out of our growing season and this year my husband and the kids have become worm farmers, (yes, you heard me right) hoping to add lots of healthy worms and compost to our organic garden. We are also hoping to increase our garden and incorporate more grown foods into our meals.

sweet tooth

Continuing with my 'if we can make it, we do' spree. I've been seeing recipes for home made mints all over the net recently and it was time to try my hand at making them. This is an easy no-bake cream cheese recipe which can be frozen for up to 3 months. That's my kind of cooking!
Recipe can be found here.

hello hello

Well, hello.
Here's a little of what we've been up to lately. We've gone 'home-made'. If we can make it, we are. So here we have a new home made spaghetti sauce.

This Pizza Sauce is from AllRecipes.Com

Rolling pasta thru the Kitchen-aid pasta maker.

More home-mades to come. Happy Wednesday!

cookie love

I made these yesterday and there isn't even one left to take a picture of. If you don't know what to do when faced with a house full of preschoolers these will make you a superstar! Not only were they good, they look great and are easy peasy! Check out the fabulous V and Co. for the how to:)

sunday morning

This is my breakfast this morning. Bacon and egg cooked in phyllo pastry with a little whole grain mustard and cheddar cheese. So yummy. We will be making these again.
We also used our phyllo pastry to whip up some mini quiche with sauteed onions, hot peppers and bacon, topped with cheddar cheese. Also voted yummy by our panel of judges. Happy Sunday everyone( :