Good morning! Today is Candlemas! Want to make some crystallized ginger chocolate chip sugar cookies? If you are in the Boston area, maybe we will see you tonight at the Anglican Use parish, St. Athanasius? 7:30 pm! Get those candles blessed! Mine are all ready to go. I’ve scrounged some up. I feel like those… Read More »
{pretty, happy, funny, real}
~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Every Thursday, here at Like Mother, Like Daughter! {pretty} Our front rosebush is just excited about this beautiful fall weather as we are. Helllooo, reasonable temperatures! How lovely to see you here at last! I spent nearly every morning last week working in the garden, trying to… Read More »
Green tomato chutney
Actually, we’ve had a couple of hard frosts and so this bed, below, looks quite different right now. But as of 10 days ago, this was the evidence of the mistake I made when trying to find a place for the last two tomato plants that just wouldn’t fit into the garden beds that you… Read More »
Flexible cake.
I have a long backlog of “Ask Auntie Leila” questions… and many things to post about… but feeling a bit of “task gridlock”… how about you? Life doesn’t seem to get any less hectic even if your kids are all grown and out. Such is my experience. Instead of figuring out a math curriculum or… Read More »
Lemon Basil Cookies with your {bits & pieces}
The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature at Like Mother, Like Daughter! We do like our lemon basil sweets around here. One year we made lemon basil ice cream, and that was good (Sukie really loved it, the rest of us were fans but also a bit weirded out). Earlier this… Read More »