What’s that you say?  It was five degrees outside Saturday night?  Well, if you ask Ella, it is officially spring, and therefore we should all be wearing sandals and no sweaters.  Preferably, just ballet tutus, as you’ll see.
At our house, I’m looking around and seeing a lot of my favorite color – yellow.  We finally ...
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I never, ever used to plan my menus before last year.  I was way too creative, too talented, too cool to be hemmed in by something as fuddy duddy as a menu plan.  Right?
Before having a baby, this non-plan worked out sort of well.  Running to the grocery store to get ingredients in the midst ...
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We spent yesterday getting ready for our Open Farm Day.  As I get ready to take you on some nourishing culinary adventures, I hope you will take a few moments to get ready, too.  Let me preface this by saying that you may think I’m totally nuts or silly, and that’s ok.  I don’t mind.  ...
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Whew, this week has nearly gotten away from me, but I’ve been thinking about you.  How did your kitchen tool purging go?  Are you feeling lighter, and finding what you need more easily?  Are you scared?  If you can’t bear to give all those tools away just yet, put them in a box and put ...
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I’ve got some inspiration I’d like to share with all of you, to help make your kitchen a lovely place to be.  It’s so easy to feel that we don’t have enough time to cook at home, and I have found (both in my home kitchen and our bakery kitchen) that organizing your space can ...
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Well, in truth, with all this unseasonal (and freaky but beautiful) warmth, we’re sort of simultaneously in hunger moon and sap moon right now.  A little tired of the same root veggies perhaps, but when I think about the fact that usually this was the starving time – when winter supplies have run low, but ...
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(Ben’s preserved lemons-in-process: quartered, salted, smooshed into a jar, fermented 5-10 days at room temp, then put into the fridge.  The best part is you can use the whole lemon after it’s preserved, rind and all.)
It’s always incredible to me how hard the world can be, and also, how incredibly beautiful.  How thoughtless we can ...
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