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Living in the North of Scotland, vegan, home educating, cake eating, woodland walking... no set subject matter here really though :)
The more ancient archives are the old home ed diary starting in June 2005 and evolving on from there.
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Tag Archives: sweet
reflections and windows
The bridge did get finished:
Now this may appear to be a blurry photo gone wrong – well, it is - but it is also a picture of trees reflected in chocolate so worthy of inclusion
It is a montezuma’s very dark bar…
Posted in beach, food, only pics, vegan products, woods
Also tagged cooking, soup, trees, walk
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toast, Valentine cookies and a cheesecake
We do still favour green smoothies for breakfast but on a cold winter’s day sometimes only decadently topped toast will do
Valentine cookies: made this basic dough and did half plain (some topped with coconut), a quarter of it with a little finely chopped fresh ginger and the other quarter with unwaxed lemon rind, beautiful flavours!
Tried [...]
Scottish macaroons
If you’re looking for a Scottish dish to make for Burns night other than haggis*, these are very good – nothing like the English item of the same name and containing the somewhat surprising ingredient of potato (undetectable, is lovely fondant) – the recipe is still up on Cat’s old blog with pics of them properly covered in coconut, of [...]
ice cream bombe
Was lovely, lovely pud – recipe up on Yule, pictorial instructions below
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freeze until needed!
little logs
recipe here. Go very well with A Muppet Christmas Carol, lots of snow outside and a roaring fire :D
a card, a chocolate log and two boys
A card for all our readers I know it’s the same one we sent you two years ago but it’s our favourite and good fun!!
Chocolate Yule Log (recipe):
getting a bit festive
Charlotte’s mince pies and chocolate logs made by a friend… said logs went very well with A Christmas Carol in 3D. Wonderful film, amazing having snow falling all round us like that
cake and wood
Does Davie take the advice of the cake on his week off? Well, first he painted the outside of the house – can highly recommend Ecos paints, never using nasty chemically things again after the experience of Daniel’s doors last winter which the joiners painted with something akin to toxic waste. Then, oh look the [...]
cake, Kroner and garden
A celebratory cake for Davie’s return from working in Denmark Made with coconut fat, tastes very nice.
Kroner:
a stroll round the garden this morning:
more of similar ilk below:
lovely things
Not been feeling very blogworthy but I have been putting together these things, old and new that weve enjoyed, used, made or found or refound in the last weeks.
Being properly ill for the first time in years had me digging out The New Holistic Herbal – had this book since the children were small, it is [...]
amazing language, wonderful poems
a beautiful ballet book.