day after hump day nuggets: holiday
hump day nuggets: little bits of the season in photos and words about the last week We had an absolutely fabulous holiday. At the risk of sounding like a crazy, over-thinking mom, I have been on …
hump day nuggets: little bits of the season in photos and words about the last week We had an absolutely fabulous holiday. At the risk of sounding like a crazy, over-thinking mom, I have been on …
Andy and I are in a bistro club. There are 14 of us, who like each other a whole lot and get together every so often and swoon over incredible food and wine. We always …
hump day nuggets: little bits of the season in photos and (few) words about the last week It's fall. Yes, the equinox was several weeks ago but tonight we will have our first hard freeze with …
Soaking up every last bit of summer with backyard dining. Ashamedly, we don't do this enough. Because often in the evenings, at the wind down from a busy day, food has one job: to feed …
On father's day and summer solstice eve, while Andy was out whooping it up at our pal's bachelor party, I made soup with bug and Alice. And so I call it ahsoup because Margot has …
As a pregnant lady with real and urgent cravings, I woke the other morning with a panicked understanding that I needed bran muffins. It wasn't like mmmmm, bran muffins would be nice, it was more …
79 degrees this afternoon as I huffed home from work on my bike with trailer carrying toddler behind. It's here! The weather that keeps me outside and away from other obligations and needs like laundry, …
I am all about the *belt-tightening* phenom on our little homestead. Whether using left-over rice and sausage and some canned beans to make epic soup or cutting up ill-fitting knit shirts to make my kid's …
So yes I am a bread machine slut. And while I have purchased Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day recommended by my pal, I have yet to make the incredibly simple, abundantly forgiving and …
Indeed there are at least eleven storms colliding directly over the top of the interstate forcing a nine-hour drive to the coast into a 13-hour endeavor, then one considers the dog and one-year-old bug and …
So I have been paying more attention to the other blog. In truth, right now, writing about my cooking-crafty-runningness is trumped by a newly walking nearly-one-year-old. But the other stuff is still happening (quilt!) and …
Montana can grow some mean mint. I love mint--love the way it looks and smells, the way it thoughtfully fills in around all of the other bush-like plants in my low-water garden. It is also …