Happy Christmas Eve! It's time for SSJ'S annual Christmas Eve Checklist, preceded by the 2024 Menu for our annual Feast of the Seven Fishes. After last year's epic F7F, we've decided to shift from an ...
FEATURES
Thermos Wassail
Winter Spiced Candied Pecans
Hot Honey
Spicy Pickled Green Beans
Cuccidati
Fig and Ginger Jam
SSJ’s Italian Leaf Cookies
SSJ Smoked Gibson Cocktail
Winter Spiced Plum & Cherry Preserves
Ginger Plum Jam [with Candied Ginger Bits]
Boozy Plum and Toasted Pecan Conserve
Balsamic Pickled Plums
Clover Club Cocktail
Festive DIY Painted Candles
Orange Cardamom Almond Crinkles
Easy Homemade Kahlua [Coffee Liqueur]
Frosted Almost-Cake Brownies
Advent Day 6, 2021: Make-Ahead Monday, Infused Vodka and DIY Gin Kits
Advent Day 1, 2021: Make Springerle
The Perfect Eggnog Cocktail for One
Vanillekipferl : Vanilla Crescent Moon Cookies
Soft Salted Caramels
Soft Gingerbread Crackle Cookies with Candied Ginger
Santa Baby Cookies a.k.a. Santa Babies
THE JOURNAL
Christmas Eve Checklist 2024
Colour-In Table Setting and St. Lawrence Market
St. Lawrence Market This morning, a couple of us will head over to St. Lawrence Market to procure the fishy goodness for our Christmas Eve Feast of the Seven Fishes and to grab a small ham and a ...
Boardgame & Cookie Baking Marathon 2024
SSJ ADVENT 2024 BOARD GAME AND BAKING MARATHON Today, we're breaking out our favourite board games and heating up the oven for a marathon day of gaming and baking! We're tacking our favourite board ...
Burning the Clocks: Solstice Sunrise and a Thermos Wassail
This morning, we're inviting the whole family to witness the solstice sunrise. Participation is NOT mandatory. But for those who accept, we're taking a thermos full of homemade Wassail and a couple ...
Gallery Sketch Date
Gallery Sketch Date My husband and I had so much fun on our last Advent trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario that we've planned another Sketch Date for Advent 2024. I'm really excited to see the ...
Distillery Winter Village
It's One of Our Favourite Advent Traditions! Today's the day my daughter and I travel to the Distillery Winter Village for lunch at a favourite restaurant. #TeamOysters&CocktailsThen, we'll ...
Winter Bookstore Watercolours
Winter Bookstore Watercolours As part of our Sunday Indie Bookstore Crawl, I asked everyone to take photographs of their favourite bookstore windows all dressed up for the holidays. Tonight, we'll ...
Rethink Breast Cancer
Today, we're making a donation to Rethink Breast Cancer. We have several friends and neighbours who have battled cancer or who are currently facing its challenges. Rethink Breast Cancer. educates, ...
Candied Pecans and Canning Label Design
Candied Pecans and Canning Labels Just because we've extended Sunday's Indie Bookstore Crawl for an additional 24 hours, we haven't forgotten about Make-Ahead Monday! For this, our third Make-Ahead ...
Indie Bookstore Crawl
INDIE BOOKSTORE CRAWL “O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping.” - As You Like It I've been waiting for this event ...
Popover Practice and Many Hands of Euchre
Things we do with friends... I. Popovers One summer, I went to a friend's lakeside cottage and one of our hosts made us popovers for breakfast, served warm and steaming, with a pat of butter and ...
Mad Cap Schiap: Stylish Holiday Films and Surrealist Collage
It's Friday the 13th & the Feast of Santa Lucia! We'd considered doing another "spooky" session of films, as we did in 2019. But we've decided to attempt something a little more sophisticated ...
Arboreal Aufguss at Thermea Spa Village
Sauna Day! Today, I'm jumping on the GO Train and joining a friend at the Thermea Spa Village, Whitby* for a day of aufguss, cold plunge, and meditation sessions on repeat as well as a lunch on the ...
Wednesday Fryday ’24!
We always have a "Fryday" in Advent, and for SSJ Advent 2024, it's a Wednesday Friday! We're keeping it simple this year, making our go-to, BA's skillet fried chicken for supper, you'll find their ...
Support Forests Canada
Forests Ontario Canada It’s our second Giving Tuesday of SSJ Advent 2024. For several years now, SSJ has been donating to Forests Ontario. And, good news! The Forests Ontario community has expanded ...
