The Ephemeral Bee

Annuals

As part of my Mother’s Day gift each year I plant the summer annuals. While my Mom enjoys the annual flowers, she does not particularly care for coordinating or planting the annuals. So each year I plant three window-boxes, a couple hanging baskets, and a couple deck planters for her. I have learned that the…

Honey Almond Biscotti

Honey Almond Biscotti – a delicately flavored, crunchy Italian cookie that is perfect proportioned for dunking into your coffee. In my experience store-bought biscotti has always been hit or miss with a tendency to be cloyingly sweet and hard enough to break your teeth. In direct contrast homemade biscotti can be crisp, crunchy, come in…

Tulips

Tulips or Tulipa Each Fall, when the time for spring bulb planting comes around, the age long question of to plant tulips? or not to plant tulips? careens around in my head. In my rational mind, I’m thinking, ” fat, well feed, chipmunks” and “they’re not likely to come back next year,” but then I…

Pesto Knots

I have been eyeballing garlic knot recipes for a few months now, and had yet to find one that would inspire me enough to test it out. My main problem with them being – NOT enough garlic! Sprinkling some minced garlic onto of a baked piece of dough was not enticing enough to be worth…