Category: Living the life
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How to make Bacon and Egg Pie
In New Zealand if someone says to you ‘Would you like a pie?” or even a piece of pie, they will be talking about a savoury pie – meat pies, chicken pies or bacon and egg pies and the whole gamut of concoctions in between. A pie has pastry on the bottom and the top…
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A different angle
My Dad gave me my first camera when I was 6, then he gave me a very good camera to work with when I was 12, that was the Leica, then we went through the Pentax period and finally I rested my eyes on the Nikons. Though for my birthday one year my Dad sent…
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The Bad Wind Came and Did Two Bad things
It knocked down the tree house. Our poor darling tree house. Loved by many, many children. Such a loss. This shot was taken through one of the broken windows in the barn. Yesterdays left over tornado winds went for windows and doors. The second thing is that I was looking out the kitchen window when…
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Rain on the hay – my language could be stronger…
This year, every time we cut the hay it rained. This time it rained then it snowed then it dried beautifully. My friend and I walked out to the hay makers field before lunch yesterday. She had come down to help me with the winterizing. Lunch would be pumpkin soup made with pears and lemon…
The Kitchen's Garden 