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Comfort food made easy

 
Ever since Nina posted this recently, I've been craving a decent sausage roll.  Light, flaky, buttery pastry with a hearty meat filling -  a perfect warm treat for school lunchboxes or for the ski hill (I apologise for mentioning skiing in pretty much every post so far in 2011).  This recipe from  Lorraine Pascale and her series Baking Made Easy on the beeb (I miss you BBC) was quick, easy and very tasty. Spurred on by her "easy" approach, I made some of her parmesan and poppyseed lollipops yesterday (made heart shaped thanks to a cookie cutter).  A perfect canape for a valentines themed potluck thrown by some neighbours this weekend. 

Embracing winter

 
I've been quiet on the creative front since Christmas.  Life is very full and there's been uncertainty about the future of my lovely part time job which has left me feeling somewhat flat and uninspired.  Instead on focusing on what might happen, we've been fully embracing the Quebec winter and I am loving the outdoor time and happy exhaustion that skiing is providing every weekend.  Today temperatures were hovering around the zero mark and it was gloriously sunny - the perfect antidote to winter blues!