Hello to all!
I just wanted to pass along some festive wishes to my wonderful readers from all parts of the world! Even if it isn’t winter where you are, I hope you are spending some quality time with family, friends, those you love. I am in Fort McMurray with my mom and my sister and her family. Sadly my wonderful husband wasn’t able to get time off from work for the trip, but I will be home to him to celebrate on the 29th. It is very cold here in northern Alberta, -35°C for the last few days, but it is warm in the house, and our hearts. We all miss Dad a lot, but the traditions he created with our family, and his love, still permeates our Christmas day. 
Much love to you and yours on this seasonal day! 
Also, check out these gorgeous cookie baskets my sister made for her friends (a Sellars tradition that I have to get on top of next year).

Please find below my excuse for my posting absence:

Wait, is that a bookshelf… in the kitchen? Yes. Yes it is.

I took off half the books for ease of moving, didn’t help with ease of cooking.

We weren’t starting a new trend, we were getting our carpets cleaned and have very few places to store anything. Our kitchen took on the book shelf, our bedroom held the rest. But gosh darn our carpets are clean!

So that is my first excuse, and it’s a good one, but the carpets were cleaned last Saturday, only hindering me from baking and cooking until Monday, when they were dry enough to load back up with furniture. My second excuse came about as a bit of a surprize. Someone in our building has ants. We don’t but that doesn’t matter, we got a notice on Monday that our floor (along with 15 others) were being treated for ants. Okay, easy enough. No, they needed us to clear out our cupboards and drawers. Tah dah:

Utensils. (Auntie Janice, those knives are great!)

Everything packed up. Ugh, I am a transient.

Anyway, I do have posts for you wonderful folks, but I need a night to focus, finish reinstating my life, and relax. Sorry about the big pause, but now that I have a clean carpet and access to my kitchen, I will whip you all up something spectacular! (or just good.)

For posting! I am pooped!

It has been busy at Appetite, which is amazing. And our apartment is a mess because I finally got the property manager to close the gaping hole in our wall (only to be told that they will have to open it later anyway when they finally replace the pipe). So all of our dining room stuff is in the living room. AND we are having our carpets cleaned on Saturday morning… so we have to figure out how to pack everything into the bedroom tomorrow so that most of the space can be properly cleaned! Madness. Madness all around.

In addition to all this, I hauled a 17lb enamelled cast iron pot home from the other end of town. So, my arms are jelly, my house is a mess, I am making something simple (maybe Egg Drop Soup) and going to sleep!

Here is a picture of my Grandma’s 85th birthday cake, all lit up to tide you over until Saturday!

Huzzzzzzaaaaaahhh!

If you look up about the header you will see that I’ve added a new page, Recipe and Post Index.

This is a place where you can find all the recipe categories with their respective recipes, all in alphabetical order! The non-recipe and personal posts are listed at the bottom in chronological order.

I will be sure to add all the new posts there right away so you will always know where to look. It is WAY easier than having to sift through pages of posts when you click through the categories at the right. BUT! Feel free to click on the tags on each post to find similarly tagged recipes.

I hope this helps navigate my growing list. I am still working on further ease of use, but I am doing it on my own and it seems finicky. Anyway, HURRAY!