This has been such a bizarre early spring, with many things in the garden greening up way early, it’s difficult to judge when the morels will show up. I see on Twitter that it is turning into a great season for morels in many places down in the US. I think it’s still early here but there is only one way to find out.
I happened to be near, oh what’s that place called…um, oh I forget – this morning and decided to go for a hike just to see if there were any early mushrooms making an appearance. What a beautiful morning for a long walk (translate: no mushrooms around yet). Fortunately mushroom hunting is always good even when mushroom finding is slow. It’s kind of like fishing that way.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, I prepared some paska dough before heading out and left it to rise. Tuffy P punched it down at the appropriate time and by the time I got home, it had risen again. Easter bread has just emerged from the oven.
Some people do all kinds of fancy braids and crosses on their paska. I usually dispense with that (at least partly because I’m not very good at it) but you can see my half-hearted attempt on one of the loaves in the picture. Fortunately they taste great, decoration or not.
27th Street 
Looking tasty…it sure has been a bizarre spring! But I like it. Um…question…what was the name of that dutch detective series we used to read. He had a cat right?
Was it this guy? I don’t remember his name being so difficult to remember ha ha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janwillem_van_de_Wetering
Those books were written by Nicolas Freeling, Candy and the detective was Van der Valk. He wrote a second series as well with a different detective named Castang, but I liked the Van der Valk ones best. My favourite was Gun Before Butter.
Thank you!!!! what are those little numbers in the corner for?
I think you won’t find Mr. Freeling at your local chain book store, but if you look in a hole in the wall used book place, maybe.
Mouth-watering!