Easter Breads, Ranked

Since I love hot cross buns so much, and they’re only a once-a-year bake, I thought it’d be fun to take the spirit of them with me into April. And since Pentecost is today, May 19, I had over a month to (almost) exclusively make Easter treats from around the world. Here’s how it went,

Winter Reads

A short celebration of our local libraries, plus my recent reads (a lot of fantasy this time!)

7 Books in 7 Weeks

A brief review of some of my recent reads

Biscuits for Halloween

GBBO bake along week 2: Biscuit week!

Reading Italy

I had to speed-read this one. I had a week and a half until our Portugal departure to get it finished and re-shelved.

The Mystery of an English Garden

I was drawn immediately to The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. Its spine was well creased, so I knew it had been loved for a time – read all the way through and then kept, given a place amid Shakespeare and Irish verse. 

A Question of Time

I was browsing the shelves of a Barnes and Noble and purchased David Mitchell’s first book, Ghostwritten. The novel follows a timeline – how much time is unclear – and is narrated by 10 different “people,” “people” because one of them is a transmigrating mind. Very odd, but it became our next read-aloud. 

Stacks of Shortbread

I like my caramel, don’t get me wrong, but when I found out it was caramel week, I was less than excited.

Give it a Rest

Scones, again!? But I PROMISE things will change when the Great British Bake Off starts again. And that’s next week!!!!!!!

“Oo-de-lally, golly what a day”

Our most recent read was Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. It’s good to return to a classic every now and again, but this one was a lot of starts and stops. We were both expecting a fluid, quick-moving story, but we were sorely disappointed.