Run, run as fast as you can! You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread Man! As I looked at these vintage tin cookie cutters I remembered the rhyme from my childhood and wondered why only Gingerbread men and not gingerbread women, boys or girls featured in literature? At least [...]
Lace – delicate and enduring
September 1st, 2015 by Susie Craig
Posted in Fashion, Museums Tags: Calais, Calais museums, Cité international de la dentelle, French museums, lace, Lace museum
Lace is on my mind at the moment as I cut two small pieces of lace from an absolutely gorgeous bra that had reached its use-by-date. While researching how I might incorporate them into a cushion without the design looking like an ex-bra I came across a museum, the Cité international de la [...]
The torchon – French chic combined with function.
July 13th, 2015 by Susie Craig
Posted in Pasta, Recipes, Torchons Tags: pasta, Rotolo, Spinach and Ricotta, Torchons, vintage linen, Vintage Torchons
‘Is there anything more useless than a tea towel that doesn’t dry the dishes?’ asked my husband recently. ‘Here I am, playing my role as kitchen helper and I cannot even dry up.’ ‘Is it the workman’s technique or is he blaming the tools?’ I responded knowingly looking at the tea towel with its [...]
Yellow plate enhances squash and green zucchini salad
June 11th, 2015 by Susie Craig
Posted in Recipes, Salads Tags: Pattypan squash, peptise, saffron, saffron vinaigrette, salad, summer squash, yellow ceramics, zucchini
I love matching the salads I make with the plate on which I serve the salad. This pretty salad is a combination of gorgeous yellows with cooling greens and takes advantage of the small yellow pattypan squash contrasted with the bright green of the zucchini. To add additional yellow colour [...]
Mint green pie dish enhances puff pastry crust
Having listed my set of pie dishes for sale I became enthused to try my hand again with puff pastry and have a pie for dinner. The winter chill has set in and we are having the second fire for the season so a pie seemed an appropriate dish to serve. Even the thought of making […] [...]