Artsy Fartsy.

I was artistic on the weekend and painted this 'masterpiece' that is now hanging in my kitchen.  While it may look like some piece of modern, abstract art, it actually is a painting of something and has a lot of meaning.

Can you guess what I painted?  

 Note: naturopathic students will have an edge on the guessing.

In other news:

 Happy Birthday, Grandad!

Grow Your Own Green Onions.

One of my New Year's Resolutions (2012) was to do more Do-It-Yourself projects, including gardening. Excitingly I have started doing a bit of gardening as of late! Well, gardening if you count putting green onion ends in a cup of water and sitting it by the window sill. Ha ha.  Yep, that's how easy growing green onions can be. Never buy them at the store again (well maybe not never, but far less frequently that's for sure).

What you need: 

A  sunny window sill

A shallow cup of water (refill when it gets low, about once or twice a week)

The white ends of some store bought green onions

Place the white bulb-y ends into the water, place on window sill, let grow.  After about a week the green onions will have completely regrown!  Using the same set of white root ends, I've grown FOUR completely new batches of green onions.  Just snip or rip the onion when you want to eat, leaving about an inch of green stem behind.  Then magically (thanks to photosynthesis) the green onions will grow back!  Easiest gardening experience I've ever had.

Side note #1: Tony marveled at how cool these are as they are made from nothing more than WATER and SUN.

Side note #2: Botany is beautiful.  The green onions make a lovely plant addition to the decor of the home.

Side note #3: Today is my grandmother's birthday.  Happy Birthday to the best gardener I know!

Candied Eggs.

Easter Weekend is here; as such I have two easy Easter or Spring treats for you to celebrate.

First up: Bird Nests.

                              Precious egg, nestled.           Look at those cracks: the chicks are hatching!

The "nest" is a cookie base made using my bake-off recipe. Before baking the cookie dough, press an egg into each one. I used Mini Eggs to represent the "eggs".  Recipe idea inspired by these pictures.

Another treat to serve on Easter morning: Eggs & Bacon.
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Melt some white chocolate (the egg "white"), poor spoonfuls onto parchment paper, then top with yellow Smarties/Reese's Pieces candies (the egg "yolk") and pretzels/crackers (the "bacon"). Inspired by this.