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Bonus Post: Pi Day 2024

In case you are the kind of person who likes to celebrate Pi Day, here are a few relevant posts from past years that may give you some ideas. DIY Cabbage Pie ***** Pi Day Bonus Flick: Calculating Pi with … Continue reading

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Byopia Press Advent Calendar: Day Eighteen and Food Wrapped in Dough

Perhaps it was my parents’ rule against ‘eating with fingers’ that gave me a life-long love of foods wrapped in dough that you are supposed to eat from your hand. In any case, I will eat almost anything if you … Continue reading

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Byopia Press Advent Calendar 2023: Day Six and Thumbprint Cookies

This is my mother’s Purity Cook Book. It was originally published in 1932 by Purity Flour. Hers is the second revision, published in 1945. It was the only cook book she owned until the early 1960s.

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Ginger Beans

Here are this week’s sunflowers, since many of you seem pleased to see them each Sunday.

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Byopia Press Advent Calendar 2022: Day Eleven and Two Cakes

Today’s post is a bit of a break for me as it is an adapted version of a post from 2021. The May 2021 book arts challenge on Instagram was #areyoubookenough_fruit. Since I live adjacent to a city named for … Continue reading

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Byopia Press Advent Calendar 2022: Day Three and a Round Brown Cookie

December 6 is the Feast of Saint Nicholas and Speculaas cookies are a traditional part of the celebrations. Traditionally a wooden mould is used to imprint images on the surface of  rolled out dough. Usually the designs are for small … Continue reading

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Seasonal Activities and Some Recipes

The garden is being very productive this summer —we have had a decent amount of rain— so this week’s post is a celebration of food and flowers. Here’s the current kitchen bouquet. (Once they start blooming we have sunflowers in … Continue reading

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Not Really Very Much, But With A Cookie Recipe

It was one of those weeks where I didn’t seem to accomplish much. I did get a storage box made for the thirty-six ‘drawings’ that make up On A Clear Day. Here it is, front open, with all the drawings … Continue reading

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Saskatoon Berry/Applesauce Cake: a DIY artist’s book and a recipe

The May book arts challenge on Instagram is #areyoubookenough_fruit. Since I live adjacent to a city named for a fruit —Saskatoon— and since the bushes grow wild where I live, I chose the Saskatoon berry. Although they are usually baked … Continue reading

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… and on, and on, and …

I really did think I would have finished Nurture, not Nature this week, but I have not. I am, however, getting really close. This is what I left on my bench yesterday afternoon when it got too dark to continue … Continue reading

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