To make the crust, cream the butter & the sugar with an electric hand mixer until whipped and fluffy. Add the flour and mix until the dough comes together. Press into the bottom of your prepped pan and bake for around 20 minutes, until the edges start to brown lightly. Set on a wire...
Coming to Hanoi, do not forget to buy as gifts for your family and friends of the small, beautiful Banh Com boxes, because it is like the elegance and quintessence of captital cuisine. Price of Banh Com Nguyen Ninh is very cheap, only 5k / small cake, 6k / big cake, if you buy a...
roses, or Santa Claus. I wanted to try to move away from those themes, but I swear the YADA stencil crawled onto my desktop and looking in an old magazine for a couple of words it happened to be a February issue hence: Love Transforms. ...
Now we move to the buildings, which provide some much-needed shade and a change-up to the scenery at The Big E. The Young Building (sometimes called the International Building) has a lot of commercial vendors and a lot of “As Seen on TV” goods. But it’s also...
So now all we have to do is pay a few dollars to buy entire flats full of these annuals, and place them in the ground. Instant beauty–inexpensive, and easy to maintain. But how different is it to take the time to work outside in the freezing rain and blowing wind, digging holes ...
Was it a sign from Hanna? Was she Hanna? Right from the beginning, Indie, to me, felt like this extraordinary gift. Indie retained that magical ta-dah energy, that excitement, that visible sense of unbridled joy that she displayed on day one throughout her entire life. My husband and I...
Talk over tea: what food to attempt to buy online today, as there were many empty shelves at local Stop N’ Shop this morning. LH: grey, cloudy skies, late morning just before lunch, small mug from the back of the cupboard, last of the sencha. Day 5 is a day of escapist day...
The truth hurt, as I was forced to admit that almost none of it had any value. No one would want to buy an old deck of cards or a worn sweater. There’s no value in VHS tapes or water-damaged paperbacks. The “Trash” boxes grew heavy. The “Auction” boxes sat mostly empty. ...
Jeanne is a small wine bar is near the Marché Provençal and the owners’ love of what they do is plain to see. Choose between one of the two wines offered by the glass or go for a bottle. It is also possible to buy a bottle of wine to go. The two owners, Elsa and Marine,...
to play with the others. She yearned desperately to be accepted. The mother ewes were so cruel. They didn’t want her anywhere near them, and their actions were loud and clear. We set up a creep feeder in hopes that Loretta could successfully mingle with the other young lambs, but ...