Miss Millie | Monkey Maker

The Joy of Socks

Apart from my inability to scan accurately (this was my seventh attempt and I still managed to crop a few letters off the left hand side) this will blow up to a readable size if you click on the image.

Katy is not only Christchurch's premier craft columnist she has also been my hand sewing idol for years. Back in 2009 she protected my iPhone, I have two of her much coveted needlebooks and recently I commissioned her to make napkin rings for a friend which were so beautiful that they accidentally ended up staying at my place.

 

Millie x

I have wondered on several occasions why America has never embraced the meat pie as a takeaway food preference. A meat pie has all the makings of a great American fast food choice - they are served heated, packed full of average quality meat, wrapped up in carbs and complete with 50% of your daily saturated fat requirement. Perhaps our American friends are just already too well served for choices in the dietary abomination category.

I also wonder when I see the glory that is Red Velvet upon bakery shelves all over the US why it is that New Zealand - with our ongoing fasination for cupcakes - has not snatched this pretty combination.

My American friend Marena recently gave me her Grandmother Ruby's Red Velvet cake recipe. I only know one fact about Ruby and that is that her favourite colour is red. This is enough for me to believe that a. she's a lady I would have liked and b. she no doubt provides a quality recipe.

Want to know where the red came from before Hansell's provided red food dye? Beets! Beet juice and cocoa = red cake!

Millie x