Never believe you have the best recipe. I thought my earlier blogpost recipe on lemon and rosemary shortbread was very good. It made great use of Hammock ingredients to one-up your basic butter, flour and sugar recipe for the same and it was fairly simple to prepare as well as tasty. The best? That is always a matter […]
It might help if you start at the beginning–of the blog that is. Yesterday, I extolled my homegrown Hammock Ponderosa lemons. Having realized that I had listed several of my favorite lemon recipes, I thought I would include a variation of one here. While photographing my lovely lemon yesterday I couldn’t help but admire my […]
If you think you have seen these before on my blog, you are right! I brightened them up with 12 drops of red food color to resemble my favorite Calico Scallop seashell. My original recipe can be found at Cookie Stamps of Approval I have loved the Calico Scallop since I found a pendant in a St Augustine […]
It never takes long to run out of homemade cookies. I have to admit to a prior habit of mine–two cookies with my coffee in the morning. Sometimes it counted as breakfast, sometimes it didn’t. Along came an extra 10 pounds–not of cookies–of me. Honestly, I eat a pretty healthy diet, low in fat, small […]
Storebought versus Grown from Seed Ponderosa lemon So, you’ve been told that you can’t grow citrus from seed? I have to differ in opinion. The puny lemon on the left, albeit normal to most of us, came from the supermarket. The lovely large and fragrant Ponderosa lemon on the right was grown from the seed […]