sticks and scones

"ahh scones, sounds like dirt...tastes like stones." cleverly declared by my husband for as long as i have known him. i quite like scones...even the stone variety. but he's a bit harder to convince...that is until today...by-golly i think i've changed his mind! we made the most delicious stones...i mean scones... just in time for tea! we slapped on some raspberry preserves made over the weekend and what a most delicious treat!

more joyful junes

swimming, swimming in the swimming pool...
and eating the most delicious cookies...
while drooling over the most delicious baby...
honestly june...you're making me giddy!

almond {or peanut butter} cookies {thank you joy of cooking}
oven 350f and grease that cookie sheet!
whisk together:
2 1/2 c flour
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
in a different bowl. beat until very fluffy and well blended:
1/4 c canola oil
2/3 cup almond (or peanut) butter
1 1/2 sticks of butter, softened
1/3 c powdered sugar
then add and beat:
1 egg
1 egg yolk
2 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
stir flour mixture into almond {peanut} mixture until well blended and smooth. let the dough stand for 5 minutes. pull off pieces of the dough and roll between your palms into generous 1-inch balls; it will be fairly soft. space about 2 inches apart on the sheets. using the tines of a fork, form a cross hatch pattern and press each ball into a 1 1/2 -inch thick round.
bake 9-12 minutes. rotate halfway through.
note: adding fine chocolate chips makes every bite that much better!

okay. now i'm going to actually work...but first, i think i'll just have one more cookie.

slow bread

one of my favourite aspects of winter is it's slow lazy pace...
the fact that the days are moving faster than i can run {which is actually quite slow...but lets pretend i can run really fast...and not duck-footed too} is more than i can handle!
so here on albert street, we are collectively trying to slow time down by celebrating slow food {it should also be noted that here on albert street we do all we can to celebrate anything whatsoever...and usually food is involved.}

we have kicked off our slow food festivities with,
baking bread...{which was mighty slow indeed as the recipe called for the yeast to sit for 24 hours...i would have moved on to a faster recipe but i wasn't the one baking this batch...and lest i forget our motto: slow down}

while the bread was baking...it was fun practising cutting the bread
and after practising cutting the bread...
it was most fun eating our prized salty delicious home baked slow food creation!
{recipe from this fabulous cookbook!}
hmm...i wonder what delicious treat will slow us down tomorrow?