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Knitting and Apple pie recipe


I am knitting a new scarf for my four year old.  When I am finished knitting the scarf I will buy some nice colorful buttons to decorate it.  
Her best color is blue because of her blonde hair and light blue eyes.

Apple pie with hearts on it as requested by the girls.  I cut out [...]

Cookie kind of day


We had been having some rain. So, I decided it was a cookie kind of day. I used a Chocolate Chip cookie recipe I found online to make a rainy day a little bit brighter.
It worked!
Tip: We didn’t have chocolate chips so I just chopped a bar of baking chocolate into small [...]

Toétché recipe


Toétché is a speciality of the Jura canton of Switzerland. It is a cake but it is not sweet. There is no sugar called for in the recipe. However, it is very good.
In the past, we have bought half of a large toétché at the bakery for quatre heure (snack). One [...]

Ultimate brownie recipe (recette)


Melting the butter and chocolate on low heat. The apartment smelled like a big slice of chocolate heaven.

Sweet Bear was the official mixer of all the ingredients. She had fun drizzling the chocolate over the flour making pictures.

The finished product.  I will sprinkle powdered sugar over them at the school when I am [...]

Pumpkin Bread Recipe (Recette)


Last Friday, I had bought another small baking pumpkin at our village Coop. Since I had already baked a pie with the last one that I had purchased, I decided to make some pumpkin bread with this one. It was a good choice.
I used this great and easy recipe.
Makes one loaf
1 1/2 [...]

Pumpkin pie recipe (recette) with photos


I baked a pumpkin pie this past Saturday. It turned out great. Below is the recipe I used to make the filling. I wasn’t happy with how my homemade crust turned out. If anyone reading this has a good pie crust recipe I would appreciate it if you would share.
Here is [...]