Cottage Cleaning

News just in, read all about it..........family company coming from Arizona next week to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. My husband's Grandparents were from County Kerry. So, will spend today doing some much needed sprucing up around the house! We enjoy our fireplace so much on chilly nights and burn good oak wood - makes a lot of dust though!

I do enjoy collecting soup tureens - usually white or cream. Love making soup, especially from recipes from the old British "Cranks" vegetarian restaurant in London which has been around since the sixties! A couple of good hot soups, crusty bread, and a beautiful salad, make a quick Winter evening party...................especially with a good bottle of wine or some hearty ale along side. Always finish up with a rich classic English dessert - sherry trifle is our favorite!

Hibernian Pub will be just the place after the downtown parade on March 17 - quite authentic with beautiful old wood bar imported from Ireland, handsome Irish bartenders.............and really scrumptious "fish 'n chips". Come on by, would love to meet you there, raise a glass, and wish you the Luck of the Irish!

Must leave you for now - don't you just hate having to put creative endeavors aside to do housework, sigh!