Odette's Obsessions

A small group of us run an SCA arts and science event every May, with the whole May long weekend full of different classes.  This year of co...

Small Currant Cakes This is a recipe from  the cookbook,  Domestic Economy and Cookery for Rich and Poor published  in 1827 by Longman, ...

Butter tarts are supposed to be a very Canadian thing.   It's said that they can be traced to the late 1600's here, especially in ...

 Percy and Christiana gave me two shopping bags of old t-shirts to use for weaving rugs.  Usually I cut my rug strips into continuous leng...

 I made sourdough bread.  It turned out perfectly.   It had a crunchy crust and a soft, open crumb.   I had tried a new to me formula for ...

It's the time of year when I start writing Pysanky.  I may have started a couple of weeks early this year, but last year I felt rushed...

We put the sap buckets out last Sunday because the weather forecast a week of weather which should have been great for sap production.  Un...