Month: January 2012

Carrot coconut muffins

Carrot coconut muffins

In an effort to use some carrots before they spoiled and to get rid of all of the remaining ingredients from holiday baking (think calorie laden sweet stuff) I tinkered with muffin making yesterday afternoon and I think I found a winner.  Although named carrot 

Accidental Felter

Accidental Felter

In a spell of reuse thinking, I found a new life for this vest as a hat.  Yup, that’s right.  This was a vest in its last iteration. Somehow I managed to put the vest that I knit last year in the washer with the 

Vintage Cookbooks

Vintage Cookbooks

My maternal grandmother was a fantastic cook. Yes, I know everyone says that about their grandmother, but she really was a master at classic cooking and actually earned her living for a time cooking for well-to-do families in Connecticut’s quiet corner.  In her later years