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Old-Fashioned Dark Chocolate Truffles

Old-Fashioned Truffles

These special truffles are made with egg yolks, cream, butter, real chocolate and honey. The egg yolks help to give it a specially creamy mouth-feel that makes it all the more rich and decadent.

  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1/4 c honey
  • 1/2 c cream
  • 1/4 c butter
  • 3 oz unsweetened chocolate
  • dash salt
Beautiful Handmade Bilums (bags) of Papua New Guinea

Beautiful Handmade Bilums (bags) of Papua New Guinea

Click here to buy a unique handmade bilum on www.artfire.com now! Limited number available. The last time I spent more than a couple days in Papua New Guinea I learned how to make a bilum from a wonderful highland woman by the name of Kapaim. She was very patient with me--I was determined to ...

Artisan Cheese Cultivators

Artisan Cheese Cultivators

This is a really fantastic post, by Jeanne Carpenter regarding a conference she attended about cheese. Jeanne runs her company, Wisconsin Cheese Originals, and promotes the state's artisan cheeses. I really appreciated the love these cheesemakers have for their bacteria, it is amazing what delicious ...

Handcraft Business of the Month – Feb 2011

Handcraft Business of the Month – Feb 2011

I got a lovely, delicate handmade necklace and earring combo in exchange for sending this Teya Danel of Dangles Jewellery a SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast) so she could start making her own kombucha. She lives out on Vancouver Island and makes very cool jewellery. Please send her a n ...

Handmade Aprons Featuring World Fabrics

Handmade Aprons Featuring World Fabrics

I started making these aprons because I have a couple of very wonderful mothers, both my own and my mother-in-law, who are always providing me with a steady stream of material that are indigenous, handwoven or from some far away land with beautiful original designs. Some of these lovely material ...

Fresh Noodles at Sha Lin

Fresh Noodles at Sha Lin

I was given a special treat this year for my birthday--lunch out at the Sha Lin Noodle House in Vancouver, BC. They don't take reservations so we crowded into the doorway to get out of the rain and hovered hungrily over the nearest table, the wait wasn't long and we were soon seated with a great vie ...

Aromatherapy and Cherry Blossoms

Aromatherapy and Cherry Blossoms

Last month I got a great email in my inbox from Out of The Box Sampler inviting me to share a sample for their monthly box. This was great news and I started trying to figure out what in the world I could make 25 of that wasn't gonna take me a whole month, but that would also be a sample of the item ...