Homemade Zucchini Bread
Homemade Zucchini Bread. July 21, 2026. The zucchini has no rivals in the garden. It produces like no other garden vegetable. When I go out for my morning garden walk,…
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Elderflower Spritz Cocktail
When the Elder Tree’s in flower;When each shady kind of placeBy the stream and up the lane,Shows its mass of creamy lace-Summer’s really come again! The song of the elder…
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Sautéed Leeks & Mushrooms with Garden Thyme
“Eat leeks in March and wild garlic in May, and all the year after physicians may play.” Old Welsh Proverb(?) Sautéed Leeks & Mushrooms with Garden Thyme. June 22, 2026….
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White Wedding Cake Recipe
Marry when June roses grow,Over hills and far you’ll go. Old English Wedding Proverb White Wedding Cake Recipe. June 2026. Recently, I was asked to make a tiny, 6-inch white…
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Spring Salad with Wild Blueberry Vinaigrette
And Little Sal and her mother went down the other side of Blueberry Hill, picking berries all the way Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey Spring Salad with Wild Blueberry…
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Vintage Walnut Cake Recipe with Pink Icing
On the table reposed a nut cake which she had baked that morning . . . a particularly toothsome concoction iced with pink icing and adorned with walnuts. Anne of…
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Wild Blueberry Lilac Cocktail
In the garden below were lilac-trees purple with flowers, and their dizzily sweet fragrance drifted up to the window on the morning wind. Anne of green gables by L.M. Montgomery…
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Pink Rose Truffles
Pink Rose Truffles. January 21, 2026. About the time winter starts to feel long and endless, the pink and red hearts of Valentine’s Day begin to trickle into stores, bringing…
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Make a Cottage Gingerbread House
“An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy gingerbread.” William Shakespeare Make a Cottage Gingerbread House. December 11, 2025. Today’s post is the…
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Sugar Plum Oatmeal Jam Bars
“The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads” Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “twas the night before christmas’ Sugar Plum Oatmeal Jam…
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Parker House Dinner Rolls
Parker House Dinner Rolls. November 10, 2025. Somehow, in two trips to Boston, we have still not stopped at the Omni Parker House hotel, the birthplace of the legendary Parker…
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