Great Newton! When fruit and cake become a breakfast snack.

If you’ve read my previous posts, you know I love snacks…particularly afternoon tea snacks. I don’t discriminate between fancy (finger sandwiches and mini pastries) and casual (cookies and crackers)–I’ll happily eat them all. Long before I learned how to bake my own treats, I satisfied my after-school snack cravings with a plethora of pre-packaged cookies….

Foraging for Inspiration..or freezer deep dive

Invariably after every bake sale, I’m left with a hodgepodge of odds and ends I can’t seem to bring myself to toss out–call it the “Chinese hoarding instinct” (oh, it’s real people)–forcing me to play freezer Jenja until a frozen quart container drops on my foot or bonks me on the head, violently knocking me…