Down Home Diner

I love going to the Reading Terminal Market, they offer so a great variety of tasty goods. Sunday brunch at Down Home Diner in the Terminal was very good and satisfying. I had the white garden scram with biscuit. Their biscuits are a bit dry and hard, they are meant to be soak in gravy!

BoooooCake

Halloween is around the corner, here is this awesome ghost cake from I am baker.

etsy goodies: Autumn shades

EgleBibiliute's aprons and leaves coasters.

Nyonya porcelain vessels

Nyonya porcelain vessels (traditional domestic wares native to Chinese-Peranakans in South East Asia) are subjected to a surface treatment which overlays the original multicoloured pattern with a new dotted pattern. Spotted Nyonya collection are hand-made by Singaporean designer Hans Tan.

Fall picnic

A beautiful Sunday; fancy creamy brie with smoked trout and baguette, carrots and hummus. (all from Reading Terminal Market) We also had a lemon tart... sunny bike ride plus a book and a nap.

Homemade coffee ice-cream

With some really good local heavy cream, and good coffee beans, Dr. castle and I stirred up some pretty wonderful magically tasty coffee ice-cream. So good that I dreamt about it!

Winter Vegetable soup: Leek

Some leeks, onions, celery, vegetable stock, potatoes, spinach and heavy cream; cooked and half blended...warm and creamy wonderful winter soup.

Etsy goodies: fall knits

ADs: Louis & Gilbert's hotel cocktail

Two 1980-era newspaper advertisements designed by Robert Miller for Louis & Gilbert's pre-mixed cocktail concoctions. These scream 1880 just as much as they do 1980.

It's apple season

With the rest of the apples we picked, Dr. Castle and I made another sweet warm delicious apple pie.

Beautiful Glass Design

Ambassador wine decanter and large covered candy dish are designed in 1925 by Oswald Haerdtl. I saw them at Moss online. They are made by clear mouth-blown crystal, very thin-walled; quite elegant and charming.

Acorn Squash Dessert

So at the apple orchard we also got this squash, which we made it into a wonderful dessert. Buttered, add brown sugar and maple syrup... baked to sweet sweet goodness.

My cat Mochi eats: squash

My kitty Mochi loves spaghetti squash! He is enjoying the fall season :D

Etsy goodies: cookies

These colorful, adorable cookies are from the acookiejar.

Halloween is around the corner, check out these cookies at Sugar & Flour.

More fall and halloween themed cookies from Just Crumbs.
You can get all kinds of DIY treasures at Etsy.com, there are no shortage of homemade cookies! Some are definitely better than others. Here are cookies I thought are very cute, and I want them just by their looks.

Apple Picking... Fall Flavours

Finally a nice sunny weekend without rain. Dr. Castle and I went apple picking at Linvilla Orchards and enjoyed some apple cider donuts (my first). The donuts were quite sweet but I like the texture. We also picked out couple of squash and got some apple cider. Back home, I made a light dinner with the spaghetti squash, very fresh and tasty. Dr. Castle, being the king of pies, made a delicious apple pie from the apples we picked. Very tart, fluffy crust and perfect with vanilla ice-cream.

Tidying-Up

Ursus Wehrli, or the importance of being compulsively tidy. via socks studio.

Soup Season !

Is getting cold out, best to have some steamy hot chicken soup.