Sustenance. Food that nourishes our body, work that nourishes our souls. Conversations and friendships that help us grow, spaces and places that fill our need for beauty, wonder and delight. On dark winter days, I seek out warmth and light wherever I can. At my […]
When you work all day outside, pulling and hoeing weeds, and you come home with a bunch of green garlic, freshly picked, still caked in soil and you are so hungry and have been wracking your brain all day to think of what to make […]
When I was cleaning and getting ready for spring a few weeks ago I needed to freshen up my routines and recipes in the kitchen, too. First I added a couple of new made from scratch staples: butter and also creme fraiche, which can become […]
The idea for this recipe came to me while I was riding on a train. I suppose it was the sort of idea that happens when you are in between being awake and falling asleep. Or when you’ve been staring out the window at the […]
I meant to get back here with a recipe sooner, but once I finished canning my applesauce my sewing machine finally returned from the repair shop. I’ve been back in sewing mode with trips in and out of the kitchen, too. I’ve been working on […]
Between trying to spend as much time as possible with family and friends and looking for an apartment and a job in the new place we will be moving to, I haven’t had much time to cook, garden, sew or do any of my usual […]
I am not usually one to jump on the bandwagon. I prefer to follow my own path and often my immediate reaction to something new and different is one of objection and often criticism. I know that I should be open minded, but it usually […]
Living in America’s Foodiest Small Town it should be expected that I am surrounded by good food. Since I don’t have lots of money to spend eating out, most of this comes from what I make in my kitchen. However, it is truly fabulous to […]
In my kitchen I have a wooden shelf unit, painted orange, which my dad made for me. I use it to hold my cookbooks. All three of the shelves are full of beautiful and interesting cookbooks, close at hand whenever I need to look up […]