DECK THE HOLIDAY'S

   This recipe comes from www.adventuressheart.com  .   When you don't want to make a big pie that sometimes goes to waste.  Why not make some little ones.  Better for you and a lot less waste. Mini Cherry Pies If pies are the new cupcake then these mini cherry pies can rival any cupcakes in the cuteness category and they're 100% home-made and so delicious! Start with the Pate Brisee , this was half of the recipe I used for the apple marzipan galette , I froze it so all I had to do was thaw it overnight in the fridge! Martha Stewart Living, December/January 1996/1997 Yield Makes one double-crust or two single-crust 9-inch pies Add to Shopping List Ingredients 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, cold, cut into small 1/4 cup ice water, plus more if needed Directions In the bowl of a food processor, combine flour and salt; pulse to combine. Add butter, and pulse until mixture resembles coa...

    Under the watchful gaze of crumbling saints and baby-faced cherubs, you hurry down a path lined with mausoleums. Eventually, you pass crops of headstones casting long, narrow shadows in the moonlight. Each engraved with the epitaph of the dead person's life. You run past sunken graves and dying flowers, hoping that the sound you hear is just the wind and you're trying to shake the feeling that something is following close behind you.     Maybe you've never taken a midnight stroll through your local cemetery. But if you have ever set foot in one, you've likely felt a hint of fear and uneasiness that is their legacy. Maybe you were attending a funeral of someone dear and close to you, touring graveyards or simply fleeing things that go bump in the night.     Whatever your reason for strolling among the tombstones, you probably felt something noteworthy about the experience-something different from all the other spaces and places...

S   ince 1986, every third weekend of September, the city of Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) found its Renaissance colors. Through a festival of a high culture, the city takes the guise of an old and true archery contest to get it back into the glorious past.     For four days in September, priority is given to street performances and the reconstruction of what daily life in the sixteenth century in the Velay would have been like. Tented camps, struggles with the sound of cannon fire, folk artisans, daily cooking and meal time, and pilgrims on their way to Saint Jacques de Compostela to set up their tents and compounds for so they can rough it just like their ancestors.     Each year, several days after the school year has been out, the entire city and its people gather to live and work in the Bird King Renaissance Festival offering all who who attend the festival, to join them for the four days of the festival. Many attendees com...