It was oddly exhilarating, the grand ambitions all these strangers had for my dinner party. These people thought that Julie Powell, with her yearlong cooking project, was sufficiently fascinating to draw the greatest lights of food celebrity chefdom, and maybe even some minor movie stars, to her crappy outer-borough apartment. Hell, maybe it was true. Maybe my Boeuf Bourguignon, the…
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This time last year I was making ‘hunny’ pots as easter baskets. And since time got away from me, I never got around to posting my how to, until now. the finished product I purchased several sized $3 plastic garden pots from Red Dot for this project. Regardless of their colour, begin by spraying all of them in a ‘mission…
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We ate in pavilions on the sand. Pastries made of cooked and shredded fish and red and green peppers and small nuts like grains of rice. Pastries delicate and flaky and the fish of a richness that was incredible. Prawns fresh from the sea sprinkled with lime juice. They were pink and sweet and there were four bites to a…
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Inspired by Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, I set out to design an easy Easter table, including Easter basket gifts heavily influenced by bees and honey. Main elements include: sunflowers as a centrepiece 100 Akre Signage (click for the signage how-to post) Winnie the Pooh’s ‘hunny’ pots as Easter baskets (you can find the inexpensive Pooh bear ‘hunny’…
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