wander through the seasons

gardening, baking, and crafts. land stewardship & regional animism //\\ Northeast Kingdom //\\ he/him, gay married @theburntleaf for incense making

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-It’s lilac season 🪻🌸-

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Working on this stone path rock garden

Featured are different varieties of thyme including lemon, English, orange, creeping, and a lovely variety that was planted before my tending

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-take me back to the Obama years please 🙏-

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all right who's got some nice rhubarb recipes

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Rhubarb Salsa

Rhubarb & Orange Cake

Rhubarb Crumble Cake

Rhubarb Gin

Rhubarb Cordial

Rhubarb Vodka

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Easter Lamb Brioche

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Easter specials at the bakery! I did some hot cross scones and mini carrot loaves and my co baker made some awesome carrot cake and cadbury egg macarons!!

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Easter Lamb Brioche

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Assembled bugs on an illustrated title page. The population of an old pear-tree. 1870.

Internet Archive

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Emily Dickinson, from a poem in a letter to Susan Huntington featured in "Open Me Carefully,"

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happy Friday the 13th! *evil cackles intensify* 🦇

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This gorgeous creature has been paying us frequent visits. It’s been such a treat

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Perfect crack on these ginger cookies

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The flavors of late winter and the mud season for me are maple, milk, and tropical fruits. Trying to bring that to the bakery with these croissant specials, I’ve been working on maple custard twists, banana dulce de lèche, and passion fruit curd with coconut frangipane !

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More fun with croissant ends, this batch made a Pain Suisse with an oat milk pastry cream and chocolate chips, finished with a brush of vanilla syrup.

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Had fun developing the Valentines menu at the cafe! I made red velvet sweet rolls, red fruit gateaux basques, and raspberry cheesecake croissants, my awesome co-baker did some crazy cross lamination for chocolate strawberry pain suisse with cute heart shaped macarons, and the baristas were whipping up beet and vanilla lattes. 🩷❤️🩷

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Made a test batch of mini gateau basque with a basic pastry cream and mixed berry jam. I slightly over filled them and forgot to give them an egg wash before baking them off but learned a few things and they were still very tasty. A few tweaks and a nice cherry or strawberry jam I think these are going to make a perfect spring time swap for pastel de nata to get people excited for fruit season.

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Ummmmm.. ok then … 🥶

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Just got my copy of Patisserie by Christophe Felder !!

I didn’t realize it was such a tome ! I bet it weighs like 30lbs, I’m so excited to start baking through this. :D