McCain's Corner

  Here are the two Christmas cakes with the icing.  One has royal icing and the other fondant. I wanted to do a more ambitious decorating jo...

  Father Christmas looking a bit like Saturn here Today is the Winter Solstice. This is the astronomical first day of Winter and it is the s...

  The McCain Christmas Cake... an update, the marzipan tops put on.  Two photos of my work this morning.  I made the marzipan and placed it ...

A Christmas Cake From Several Years Ago This is my Irish Christmas Cake. I had several requests for its recipe. However, I am one of those t...

  From Lonesome Dove, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, both men carry Gaelic origin surnames, and are archetypal 'Cracker' cowboys .   W...

 

  THERE are more worlds than one, and in many ways  they are unlike each other. But joy and sorrow, or, in  other words, good and evil, are ...

  Sarah Pearl McCain née Tweedy... born 1883 and passed in 1962. My grandmother, she gave me insight into another world. As I like to put it...

  Sliabh Na Caillí Meath Today is the Autumnal Equinox. The begins the Fall season in the Northern Hemisphere. The days grow shorter and the...

  Dagda   This is the Summer Solstice today.   It is the Midsummer festival which is often celebrated with a bonfire.  Saint John the Baptis...