Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style!

[Hannelore N.]

Deep shortbread would be just fine. You'd get a little more.

[Rita C.]

Wow Lorchen! What a fabulous profile photo with your hat at a rakish angle. Girl you've got swag (as my daughter would say!)

[Hannelore N.]

Taking a bow...... Thank you, Rita!

Actually, I can't believe that I look this good now. Mad me cry when I saw the picture for the first time. So I'm delighted to use it for my profile.... flying saucer and all.

[E.M. T.]

[Renata L.]

Love your photo, Lorchen, so beautiful, you look GREAT, with or without the saucer!

Rita, I think I could use the fish mold for shortbread as well as the miniature one with flowers. The others are way too deep, I think the shortbread would fall apart. Might have to try that sometime. You're right about moon cakes being labor-intensive, especially when you do them maybe once a year for this holiday and have to relook the recipe every time to make sure you don't forget something.

[Lois B.]

Lorchen, You are looking lovely!

[Lois B.]

Lorchen! Look at how beautiful you are! Great picture.

[Deborah W.]

Debbie - When traveling across Canada with all the kids a long time ago, we stopped in Sask. on the side of the road, and the lady was selling Saskatoon Berry Pie. She called her husband who dashed over from the house and gave us all a private inside tour of the grain elevator. I finally found a cheap ceramic one to be used for a piggy bank, and everyone laughed at me, but I came home a painted a prairie scene from the photos I took, including the grain elevator. . I was a great Canadian experience traveling from Quebec to Northern BC and back. Have been to NB and NS, but want to go to PEI and Newfoundland next summer.


Have you ever had Saskatoon Berries?

We went and picked saskatoons in the coulees with my grandparents all the time when we were growing up. Now my cousin has a huge patch of bushes. Your cross country trip sounds wonderful. I have been in the Yukon (and want to go back) but haven't been in the Northwest Territory and then the farthest east I have been in Canada is Winnipeg. Sure would like to visit the rest of the provinces back east some time. Love your grain elevator story. They are truly a disappearing sentinel of the Canadian prairies.

[Deborah W.]

Next time you're coming east, go a little further and come to Quebec. (and visit me) The roads are like a third world country, but the folks are fine. How could you stop in Winnipeg? It only takes three days to cross Ontario!

The CQ show this coming year is in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Have you ever been to one?

[Deborah W.]

It only takes three days to cross Ontario!

:shock: :shock: :shock: Oh my! Is that walking?

[Lois B.]

It only takes three days to cross Ontario!

:shock: :shock: :shock: Oh my! Is that walking?

When I was a young girl we drove across the USA. I remember driving across the great plains and getting to a point where in the distance you began to see something that looked like a faint cloud on the horizon. I believe that was somewhere in Kanas. Eventually it sunk in that we were seeing the Rocky Mountains. We still had hundreds of miles to drive before we reached the foothills of the Rocky's. That experience made us ever so grateful that we were not making the trip in a covered wagon like the early settlers had done. No, Rosemary, when Terrie said 3 days I think she was refering to a car. Even today with our wonderful interstate highway system it takes about 6 hrs to drive from the eastern to western border of my state (Pennsylvania). If you are driving across country at that point you've hardly just begun.

[Lois B.]

As a teen, I did the across the USA trip--we started in Illinois. And, I had the same experience with seeing the clouds and realizing they were mountains. A beautiful country we live in--but very big. Six hours from the north end of our state to the south end.

[Renata L.]

As we switched around a bit I missed two questions... Ritzy, for your English rib stitch, I found a video that shows it clearly at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3AkwiqPYZY. Hope this helps!

Jane, I just looked at the recipe you provided the link for from the Huffington Post on how to make moon cakes with the fruit and nut filling. I've actually had them in Shanghai and they are delicious (at least I like them a lot). I did not have a recipe for the filling so thank you so much! I'm definitely going to try making the recipe you posted--I read through it and it seems pretty authentic. I'll probably try making this recipe well before the next time moon cakes are served to make sure the recipe turns out correctly. Molds are pretty inexpensive, you can get them from places like http://www.Browncookie.com or just surf the web for moon cake molds. However, even without a special mold, they'll come out fine. In that case, for decoration, you can take some red food coloring, dip the tip of a chopstick in it and mark the top of your moon cake with dots from the chopstick (three or four dots). That would be pretty too!

[Rita C.]

It does sound like a lovely recipe Jane. I might even try it sometime before next Autumn.

[Deborah W.]

Next time you're coming east, go a little further and come to Quebec. (and visit me) The roads are like a third world country, but the folks are fine. How could you stop in Winnipeg? It only takes three days to cross Ontario!

The CQ show this coming year is in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Have you ever been to one?

We seem to travel where we have family to visit and our daughter went to university in Winnipeg. I would love to visit you in Quebec. That would be awesome. I will not be able to attend Quilt Canada but hope to if it is every back out west. I planned to go two years ago when it was in Calgary but we had a blizzard that weekend and I am not a good winter traveller. :roll: Even though it was May at the time!!!!