It’s time for our Hearth and Soul Blog Hop Link Party for the week of April 11th. We invite you to share all family-friendly posts as well as, of course, food from the hearth to feed your soul.
I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. On Sunday, my husband and I rounded out what became a month of celebrations for our 25th wedding anniversary (never let it be said we do things by halves!) with a black tie dinner for some of our nearest and dearest at Phyllis Court Club. I can’t wait to share more of the flowers, food and fun from the party with you in a blog post soon. In the meantime, here’s a family photo I just can’t wait to share!
As you can see by our smiles, we all had a lot of fun!
Blueberries are coming into season in many parts of the world so this week I’ve shared a seasonal variation on my Raspberry Bakewell Tart Squares.
My Lemon and Blueberry Bakewell Tart Squares have a lovely hit of lemon and lots of gorgeous blueberry flavour. The whole family will love them.
I hope you will be inspired by my features from last week’s hop (from top left, clockwise):
Bake tasty Candy Cookies from Tampa Cake Girl
Make a pretty Spring Wreath with Julie’s Lifestyle
Travel with Nancy On The Home Front in Exploring Stowe, Vermont
Enjoy Meal Planning Maven’s delicious family recipe for Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake Squares
Save the day with Western New Yorker’s Child Travel Bin
Discover Hadia’s Lebanese Cuisine’s family recipe for her Mom’s Lebanese Moussaka
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Lauren says
April 11, 2016 at 6:01 pmGreat picture of all of you April, you look so happy! Congratulations again on your anniversary, I hope you have a great week. Thanks for hosting!
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 10:51 amThank you so much, Lauren! I hope you have a lovely week too!
Nina Lewis says
April 11, 2016 at 7:52 pmThe lemon and blueberry tart looks so yummy! I’d like to try the recipe — but I’m not sure I can find lemon curd in my local grocery store. Is there something similar that I could use? Yogurt maybe?
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 10:54 amThank you, Nina! I’d substitute something with a jam or preserve like quality, I think. I’m worried yogurt might be too runny. Can you get lemon marmalade? Failing that, you can make lemon curd fairly easily. Ina Garten has a recipe on the Food Network site. Of course, making lemon curd from scratch makes the recipe a lot less quick and easy…Let me know how you get on and I’ll see if I can come up with any more ideas 🙂
Shirley @ gluten free easily (gfe) says
April 11, 2016 at 8:21 pmWhat a terrific photo and amazing celebration! Can’t wait to hear more, April. 🙂
Today I’m sharing the complete March Muffin Madness roundup–22 awesome gluten-free recipes–and my favorite health breakfast cookies, Banana Coconut Breakfast Cookies.
Thanks for hosting!
Shirley
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 10:55 amThank you so much, Shirley! Oh wow, I love muffins – looking forward to the recipes. The cookies sound fantastic too!
Miz Helen says
April 11, 2016 at 9:15 pmHi April,
You have had a fantastic month of celebration, I have been keeping up with your travels. What wonderful memories you have for the next 25! Hope you have a great evening and thanks so much for the party!
Miz Helen
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 10:56 amThank you so much, Miz Helen. We really have made some great memories. Thank you for visiting and sharing. Have a lovely week!
Hadia says
April 11, 2016 at 10:20 pmWhat a beautiful family photo, April. Congratulations one more time on your 25th wedding anniversary. Thank you so much, for featuring my Mom’s moussaka. Have a great week ahead
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 10:56 amThank you so much, Hadia 🙂 Wishing you a lovely week too!
Diane Balch says
April 11, 2016 at 11:00 pmHappy Anniversary! 25 what a wonderful number. My husband and I will be celebrating our 20th this year. What a gorgeous place that you had the party and I love, love, the family picture.
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 10:56 amThank you so much, Diane – and congratulations to you and your husband too!
Jean | DelightfulRepast.com says
April 11, 2016 at 11:31 pmApril, before I check out the new links, I have to check out your scrummy bakewell squares! We’ve always spread our anniversary out and called it our anniversary fortnight. We’ll have to try for an anniversary month next time to keep up with you! 😀
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 10:58 amI hope you like the Bakewell Squares, Jean. My husband is always teasing me about my birthday fortnight 😉 We haven’t ever celebrated our anniversary for this long before but it sure was fun 🙂
Nancy W says
April 12, 2016 at 12:01 amYou and your family look like you had a wonderful celebration! 25 years is worthy of celebrating! Thanks for featuring my post on exploring Stowe, VT!
– Nancy ( Nancy On The Home Front )
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 10:58 amThank you, Nancy. It really was fantastic! I really enjoyed your post – thank you so much for sharing it.
Tumbleweed Contessa says
April 12, 2016 at 2:19 amLooking forward to hearing more about your wonderful celebration. The picture is lovely! Thanks for hosting this party as well. Best wishes for tasty dishes!
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 10:58 amThank you so much! Best wishes 🙂
pam says
April 12, 2016 at 10:13 amCan’t wait to see the photos! Have a great week!
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 10:59 amThank you, Pam! Wishing you a great week too 🙂
Julie says
April 12, 2016 at 12:46 pmThanks for the fun April and thanks for the feature of the wreath I made! Have a wonderful week. 🙂
Julie xo
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 5:14 pmMy pleasure, Julie! I hope you have a wonderful week too 🙂 xo
Lou Lou Girls says
April 12, 2016 at 4:34 pmHello beautiful! I love stopping by your party! Please take a moment and party with us. Our party goes until Friday. We Pin and tweet everything! Happy Monday! Lou Lou Girls
April Harris says
April 12, 2016 at 5:15 pmThank you so much for visiting and sharing and for the invitation too!
Linda (Meal Planning Maven) says
April 12, 2016 at 8:42 pmApril, I just love seeing photos of your 25th Wedding Anniversary celebrations…you both look so happy and in love! Thank you ever so much for featuring my Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake Squares at this week Hearth and Soul Hop. I hope lots of your readers have the chance to try our treasured family recipe made with healthier tweaks. I will be back to share more goodies a bit later. Have a lovely week!
April Harris says
April 13, 2016 at 3:59 pmThank you so much, Linda! I hope you have a lovely week too 🙂
Sherry says
April 13, 2016 at 12:27 amThanks for hosting the party!
April Harris says
April 13, 2016 at 4:00 pmMy pleasure, Sherry. Thank you for your support of the hop!
Create With Joy says
April 15, 2016 at 5:50 amHappy Anniversary dear April and many, many more! 🙂
April Harris says
April 15, 2016 at 9:26 amThank you so much 🙂