Tornadoes Last Sunday afternoon, we listened to so many tornado warnings that we lost count. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the watch/warning system, a tornado watch means that weather conditions are favorable. A warning means that an active tornado has been sighted or that radar has a strong indication that one hasContinue reading “Counting Our Blessings – March 2019”
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What I’ve learned while making fondant for bees
Let me preface this post by saying that I know some of these things should be painfully obvious, but I hope that some of my readers are, at times, as distracted as I while trying to do many things at once — like playing SimCity while cooking. Lesson 1: Respect the capabilities of your equipment. Continue reading “What I’ve learned while making fondant for bees”
Cooking for bees
I finally made a successful batch of bee fondant using the recipe from Honey Bee Suite. I like the common-sense approach of the author, and I was able to use my experience from three failed batches to improve what I was doing with recipes in general. Five pounds of sugar yielded six paper dinner platesContinue reading “Cooking for bees”