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My latest baking endeavor were ginger cut-out cookies.   Not to sweet and a great snack!

I made homemade macaroons because I always wanted to try making them.   Also, I made them because I am painting a still life of them.   I was going to make different colored and flavored ones.   But I will start with just vanilla macaroons.  

Starting to feel like autumn. Look and taste like autumn too.  Mushroom and goat cheese pizza with truffle oil and thyme.

Since I have so many dandelions, I have decided to make a few dandelion concoctions.  Here I am drying dandelions for tea.  The roots, leaves, and flowers of dandelion are all nutritious and delicious.  Just make sure not to use dandelions that have been sprayed with chemicals.   Currants Picking borage flowers.   Such a pretty blue color.  

Today I made crabapple jelly.   It looks like rubies and smells like floral perfume.