Cheeky Glimpse Of New Items

Here is a sneeky glimpse of a couple new cushion designs that will be in our online store (http://forage.tictail.com/) over the weekend.
If you keen on Retro you will love these...........

And to keep you interested, here is a even cheekier glimpse on what we will be working on over the weekend.................................

Gifts for Christmas! Free Wrapping On All Jewellery Purchases

To make Christmas a little easier we are offering free gift wrapping on all Jewellery purchased now until 1st of January 2013 (yes, the new year for all those belated Christmas purchases).

NB: All jewellery pieces come in a gift box, which includes a scroll with a short history on the locale where  the pendant piece was foraged.

To get browsing in our New Jewellery collection River treasures follow this link:
http://forage.tictail.com/products/jewellery

Here is a sneek peek...............................

Oversea's Shipping Now Available

With a few changes made to our store, it's now possible for you all to purchase our products from anywhere in the world :)

To visit follow link:

http://forage.tictail.com/

NEW ONLINE STORE

We are finally back with new products and a new online store.

Just in time for Christmas ;)

http://forage.tictail.com/

Support Handmade this Christmas!

Sunday Kitchen: A Taste of Malta – Mqaret (Maltese Date slice)

Sunday Kitchen: A Taste of Malta – Mqaret (Maltese Date slice) 

It's been a while since I have had a chance to do a Sunday Kitchen recipe, mainly due to having my mum visit from Australia for 3 months.

While she was visiting she had time to teach me how to bake some of my favourite childhood Maltese dishes.

My mothers Mqarets (pronounced im-ar-ets) being the ultimate favourite; it’s a traditional date slice. 

Now, I can’t give you the recipe as it’s a family secret...... No not really ;) but as mum has been doing it for many many years, there is no measuring - so when I attempt to make them myself (this is once I manage to get through the batches that we have frozen) I will weigh ingredients and post it, this probably being around Christmas time as they delicious warming.

 

Here is description of these little beauties! They are pastries with cooked, softened dates and the juice/rind of an orange. Lemon also added with the rind of mandarins, this is all then drenched in either Aniseed Essence (or for a boozy lift add Ouzo) covered in pastry and deep fried. Eat while hot with a dusting of icing sugar, best with a good cup of coffee! This rather quick description doesn't do it justice, so you will all need to make them for yourself to try! So stay tuned for the recipe :)

Mum has now been gone for a week, and we just finished the original batch of Mqarts she had made us (we still need to get through the frozen batches).

The smell of her cooking them took me back to being a kid and getting ready for one of many parties or family gathering, and the smell of Mqarets cooking always reminds me of many trips to Malta. Once you step off the bumpy bus ride and enter the magnificent Maltese bus terminal of Valetta- that is the smell you will encounter with vendors frying them fresh to order.