AFTER APPPLE PICKING
My long two-pointed ladder is sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off. Except from a poem by Robert Frost 1874–1963
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Walnut Torte and EasterAutumn in Australia's national capital is the most beautiful time of the year. No other words needed, really.
Slow Poached QuincesTHE QUINCE TREE
The quinces are yellow lamps amid red leaves, Gay festal lanterns that a faery hand Hung there at twilight when the long leaves turned From emerald to a mass of crimson flame, Enchanted fire that through the dawn mist burned. Beautiful is morning on the land When quinces hang like lamps among red leaves. And when the moon of autumn lights the hills Silver green are the quinces in her light, Like lamps among the leaves above the well That mirrors them entangled with the stars. See, there a red leaf on the water fell. One by one they will fall through the autumn night. Tomorrow at dawn the well will brim with leaves. The quinces are yellow lamps amid red leaves. Tomorrow, when they ripen, we will go Gathering them. In baskets they will lie, Pale yellow fruit, a little pitiful And sad their bare tree set against the shy. But we have seen and we will always know Their light of festal lamps at autumn tide. by Canadian writer Joan S. Grigsby from Lanterns by the Lake (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1929). In My Kitchen April 2012Welcome to my Autumn kitchen. It seems like just a few short weeks ago that I was glazing a ham for our Christmas lunch, and here it is April already! Daylight saving ended last night, so it it really only 7.00am, which gives me an extra hour of baking and preserving on this blue-sky Sunday morning.
One of the aspects of life in Canberra, Australia, is that we (usually) have four distinct seasons; my favourites being Spring and Autumn. With the changing of the seasons, Peter and I layer up and brave the crisp chill of the morning to visit the weekend farmer's markets. After lunch, we walk or cycle by the duck ponds... and then I have 'me time' in my kitchen, baking and preparing the evening meal, before snuggling on the Chesterfield after tea. Don't you just love the delicious things that the cooler weather brings?! The arrival of a new month means it's also time to visit Celia from Fig Jam and Lime Cordial. Celia features a lovely monthly segment titled 'In My Kitchen', where cooks from across the miles invite readers into their kitchens. It's a little bit of What's Cooking, What's Eating, What's Reading, What's Shopping and What's Happening at the hearth each month. Tell me, what's been happening in your kitchen and what's on the agenda for April? In my kitchen in April are these beautiful quinces from our orchard visit with Jonathan and Robyn Banks. I am planning to slow roast them in a vanilla syrup until they turn ruby pink; and will share the recipe with you in coming weeks. Their rose-like scent has perfumed the kitchen. |
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