Candlelight Memoirs True Stories

Do you dream of owning a house or perhaps a mansion? In this day and age most of us will agree that house prices are staggering. For example, one million dollars or more will buy you a run down fix me upper or tear down house in Vancouver. In some other areas of Canada, a half million dollars will only buy a condo or townhouse. I can recall when I was growing up when one could buy a home on an acreage for under a hundred thousands dollars. Those days are gone. Homes have skyrocketed in prices at a rapid rate in the last thirty to forty years. Many people in this day and age will never ac quire a home unless they have a six figure income, inherit, or win a big lottery. My situation would be to win a mega jackpot lottery such as the Lotto Max or Lotto 649. Winning a huge jackpot would definitely put the keys in my hand to my dream home. This dream home would be more like a neo classical, colonial, Georgian style mansion with its own vineyard. Yes, this is all a big dream but some parts o...

This is some food for thought. If one likes sweet desserts then read on. As a kid growing up in an urban neighborhood, I always enjoyed binging on old fashioned home baked cream puffs. The scrumptious tasty pastries stuffed with whipping cream and topped with semi sweet chocolate left a desire for more than just one. These were not your tiny powdered sugar sprinkled dough balls stuffed with a dab of cream, found in modern day grocery stores in the frozen desserts section. A genuine cream puff is made with carefully prepared chou pastry baked at a low oven temperature. After the pastry is delicately browned and removed from the oven, the middle part of the pastry is removed. This leaves a small cavity inside the pastry that is filled with preferably real whipping cream. The cream puffs were finally completed with a delicious chocolate coating and sprinkled icing sugar. These cream puffs also provided more than just one or two bites like that of the store bought knock off cream puffs. A ...