What could be more calming than an organized pantry cupboard filled with food stored in gleaming glass jars? At the end of July I was feeling overwhelmed with a general feeling of mess and disorder, something had to be done. I started with the pantry and then just kept going through the house, one room at a time... success builds on itself is my working theory.
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| Polished. |
You'll be pleased to know I found an excellent recipe for spiced walnuts. I omit the sugar too so the only sweetener to them is a bit of honey. The recipe is
here... try it with double the honey and no sugar, it works very well.
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| Look, spicy walnuts. |
They are so delicious in a salad with green leaf lettuce and blue cheese. I know, not everyone is a blue cheese fan, you could try it with goat cheese, or a sheep's milk feta would be nice too.
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| This is my favourite salad. |
Even though it's hot as Hades I've been cooking up a storm:
How about this fetching little brass planter?
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| Bought it on Etsy last winter, threw some potpourri in it. |
With all of my crazy hungry Rascals I figure I've baked at least 9000 batches of chocolate chip cookies. Taking them out of the oven though, smelling so wonderful, it just never gets old.
Anyone else have a pie dragon hanging around? This one was my Grandma Jean's, it's a treasure:
I bought this wonderful new edition of one of my favourite children's books when we were at Stratford with our friends Ade and Tony. Look at the cover:
We're on holiday this month but that's not stopping me from looking forward to September. I'm going to embrace cooking, baking, organizing and polishing just as September deserves.
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| Ready for some cooking. |
It wouldn't be August without baskets full of zucchini everywhere, and that old standby Zucchini Crusted Pizza by Mollie Katzen continues to be an A+ recipe year after year.
Here's the link to the zucchini fabulousness. I omit the flour and use ground almonds to make it gluten-free.
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| Zucchini. |
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| Ready for some toppings. |
I hope you're having a lovely August with many moments of feeling either organized or calm or ideally both at the same time.
xoxDani
