christmas biscotti
Posted: December 12, 2012 Filed under: chocolate, christmas, cookies, fruit | Tags: 24 days of cookies, biscuits, christmas, coffee, cookie swap, great food blogger cookie swap 2012, mail, mediterranean, presents 4 Comments »
How exciting! We’re at the halfway point between the first day of December and Christmas Day and I’m excited. I can’t wait till Christmas but at the same time I’m really enjoying the excitement in the lead up. Included in that excitement was the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2012.
I signed up for the swap after hearing about it via Best Friends for Frosting (I’m pretty sure) in November. The deal is, you bake a bunch of cookies. You send 1 dozen cookies to three food bloggers (that’s one dozen each) and in return, three food bloggers send you cookies! It was so much fun making up my packages and I love love love recieving mail so getting the cookies was awesome too! Read the rest of this entry »
shortbread
Posted: December 4, 2012 Filed under: christmas, cookies | Tags: 24 days of cookies, biscuits, christmas, cookies, nana, shortbread Leave a comment »
Traditions are important. When we participate in traditional practices, in traditional rites and rituals, we are participating in processes that sometimes have been around for hundreds and thousands of years.
Now it’s true that not all traditions stem from positive beginnings. Sometimes traditions make us lose sight of what is truly important, for instance, the tradition of Black Friday perpetuates the materialism and capitalism that lies at the heart of not only American culture but the culture of the rich West, of which we are a part. Read the rest of this entry »
gallons of tea and chocolate butter biscuits
Posted: September 18, 2012 Filed under: cookies, Uncategorized | Tags: biscuits, boxes, butter cookies, chocolate, chocolate flecks, comfort, cookies, home, home is where the heart is, nomad, tea, unpacking, wanderer 1 Comment »
I am surrounded by boxes.
I have to go over an obstacle course to get to my door.
I’m typing this on my bed because my desk is covered with stuff.
But five months after everything went pear-shaped, I finally have a place to call home.
Home’s a funny thing. Home is, famously, where the heart is, but it’s also where the people welcome you, where you can hang your hat up, where you can put your feet on the furniture and your alcohol on the windowsill. Home is where you keep your crap, literal and figurative in more than one sense. Home is where no questions are asked and also where all the deep questions are asked. Home is when you can say that you’re stuffed and ready for bed and you can just go there. Home is re-discovering old clothes and old books. Home is baking at ten o’clock at night and rearranging the furniture to suit yourself.
yoyos
Posted: December 31, 2011 Filed under: cookies, musings | Tags: 2012, baking, biscuits, cookies, family, happy new year, holidays, memories, milestones, one year, sun, surf, yoyos Leave a comment »
At the moment I am currently sitting relaxing in the sun in Perth after a week of gorgeous sun, surf and hanging out with my amazing family. It doesn’t get much better than this.
