Fresh Market Strawberries

I used to freeze berries or fruit by simply washing, chopping and throwing them directly into a freezer bag. What does that give you? A big frozen lump of goodness! But you can't use it in portions then, can you? A couple summer's ago I happened to catch my aunt freezing raspberries the more helpful and one might say, 'proper' way! On a tray...

With gaps in between.

Once they're frozen... put them in a bag as you usually would and...

You can then remove them one at a time if you so choose as they have frozen as individual pieces... not all fused together! BRILLIANT!

"A Year From Scratch" blog

This looks like a great blog to follow. I especially like the Gingerale fail posting!

A Year From Scratch

Funky Knits/A Story

1FUNKYKNITWIT: Funky Knits

I love this blog and had to share this post!
How creative, inspiring and funny.

Tick, tick, tick...

I detest the built in stove top timers. They sound like fire alarms or other such distressing wails and with an infant around that's tough competition!

After coming across this little guy I've been much more relaxed at setting timers especially while my children sleep just down the hall. Plus I love the tick, tick, ticking it makes while its on and the Brrrring! at the end. There's something more comforting about those sounds... because my Nanny and my Mom both use timers more like this one.

Rhubarb Streusel Muffins Oh My!

They are delicious!

Smitten Kitchen, you've done it again. And thanks to my sister for sending me the link: Rhubarb Streusel Muffins.

What I liked most was that I didn't feel I had to go sparingly on the topping even after putting 1/3 into the batter mix. Yum Yum.

As well, I hand mixed all of the ingredients where I'm normally very lazy about this. But my sister does this quite often and encourages me to do it as well... I always thought it would be too time consuming, but you know what's more time consuming??? Washing all of the parts to the mixer. (ALL of the parts of course means the bowl and the attachment)

...Anyways, it was a lot easier than the recipe page made it look like and these days with an infant and toddler my time is very precious and unavailable. But I say, make'em! They're worth it.

Muffin mix Step 1

Crumble topping!

Le Rhubarb...

...Le Voila!

A Damn Good Cookie

Craving a baked goodie I made my favourite Smitten Kitchen cookie!
My sister prefers to hand mix her batters... I do not. June would not approve, I'm sure!
The recipe is easy and super sweet. But you won't find any pecans in them as the recipe calls for since my fiance is not a fan of this kind of ingredient messing with his cookies!

An Honour

When I declared I was going to start knitting my mom handed me her original set of needles that my dad bought her. I can't tell you exactly what year they're from but you can tell they did their rounds and made very many loved pieces! I remember this set very well from my childhood.

As my first two projects have required circular needles I haven't had the pleasure of knitting with these yet, but soon...

Thanks mom! x0

Still has the original needle gauge guide!