“Homemade lemon Madeira loaf…My favourite! …and seeing as the whole loaf lasted about 40 minutes….everyone else’s favourite too!” Blog post and cooking method can be found here: artbyanita.blogspot.com/2008/11/let-there-be-cake.html

“Â We live on an acreage of property which backs up to nature preserve and has a creek running through the lower part of our yard. We’ve kept it all as . . . → Read More: Blackberry Pie – Maureen Falconer – Recipe Journal]]>

Use your journal to record autumn’s rich harvest and your favourite seasonal recipies…

“ We live on an acreage of property which backs up to nature preserve and has a creek running through the lower part of our yard. We’ve kept it all as natural as possible and about 10 years ago, wild blackberries started growing down by the creek. My 16-year-old son loves wild blackberry pie! One day, I came back from my run and couldn’t find him anywhere in the house or yard. Finally, I wondered down by the creek and there he was picking blackberries so I would make him another pie. Touched by his efforts and love for something I baked, I of course made it.

I prefer to bind my own art journals with watercolor paper. I have used Moleskines in the past and will embellish the cover to make it unique. I prefer to use Crayola water colors, the kind we all used in Kindergarten, because it’s easy to use and transport, cheap to replace, and offers vibrant true colors. I finish my artwork with art pens, my favorites being Faber-Castell PITT, Pigma Micron, and Staedtler pigment liner.”

From the recipe journal of Maureen Falconer
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“I find the hardest thing about making dinner is DECIDING what to make. After a long day at work, I’m not up for a leisurely meal that includes trips to 3 stores for exotic ingredients. I . . . → Read More: Easy Meals – Salmon by Jeanette Yee Sclar – Recipe Journal]]>

Jeanette has created a wonderful “Easy Meals” recipe journal

“I find the hardest thing about making dinner is DECIDING what to make. After a long day at work, I’m not up for a leisurely meal that includes trips to 3 stores for exotic ingredients. I often make something very easy that turns out to be great; then I promptly forget all about that dish! No more! I have started to collect those easy weeknight recipes in a book block, illustrated as the whim strikes, to be bound into a cover later. This is watercolor pencil with some “sanded” pigment dropped onto the wetted pencil.”

Inktense pencil on watercolour paper

From the Recipe Journal of Jeanette Yee Sclar, Mistress of Longears
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