It has taken me over 2 years to finally post the third wonderful recipe from the birthday dinner that my friend, Melissa, gave me in 2020. (This pace of marking things off of my list sounds about accurate these days, sadly.) The birthday gift was: cooking together + a menu I didn't have to choose … Continue reading Tres Leches Cake
Sometimes it just takes a simple new something to bring some freshness and pleasure to life. When approaching the one year-mark of living in a pandemic, these things are especially welcomed. Can you believe we have been living in this twilight zone for a year? Some students and I were talking this week about how … Continue reading Simple Pleasures: Melissa’s Lemony Massaged Kale Salad, Good Pens & a Gratitude Prompt
I've been wanting to share this recipe with you because it has been a gift in my nutritional life lately. However, I haven't known the best timing. December doesn't seem the month, as many a-post on Instagram and the world wide web are filled with *stunningly beautiful baked goodies*. It seems that a post of … Continue reading Power Muffins: Fuel for the Day
You know when you make something and it's so easy, satisfying, and it's a crowd pleaser, and then you make it again and again? I have done that with a few things during these *strange times*. And I try to stop myself before I over-do it and cause my family to be sick of it. … Continue reading I Keep Making This Broccoli Salad!
Like many of us, we have cooked alot during this quarantine. Fortunately, I love to cook for hungry, interested eaters. (Though the number of dishes we have washed has been overwhelming.) One of my greatest joys is cooking with people who enjoy cooking and eating. Of my three kids, my 16 year old has been the … Continue reading Cooking Lessons while in Quarantine: Classic Chicken Pot Pie
Summer days have been filled with so much. Early mornings and late nights and lots of moving parts in between. As we are gearing back up for the start of school and back to campus for me, I have been reflecting on the gifts of this summer. There are many things I cherish from this … Continue reading Miscellany 2: Summer Gifts (Vermont Maple Syrup, Garden Inspired Meals, Morning Prayer & Revolutionary Cleaning Cloths)
Since my days are pretty full-to-the-brim with work and family and real life, and since my blog is just a little hobby and I'm not a professional cook, photographer or blogger, and since I don't have a staff, I sometimes have a backlog of things I want to post, but don’t have the capacity to pull together. … Continue reading Miscellany: Lovely Eggs, Mindful Magazine, Gift Wrap and Fizzy Water
my much-too-ambitious book stack/ summer 2019 Hop straight to the recipe HERE . Every May I stack up a tower of books for Summer Reading. I never complete the stack, but rather it is my pile from which to pull for the summer. This year it is entirely too large, but there are so many books that … Continue reading Summer Book Stack & Novel-Inspired Cheese Scones
CLICK HERE for Recipe #1 and HERE for Recipe #2 For Asher's birthday this year, we decided to make a brunch feast. It was delicious! We love breakfast food and this was a special but simple-to-cook-together menu. Enough to have lots of hands working together but not too complex or stressful of a menu. The … Continue reading Chilaquiles Egg Bake & Grilled Chocolate Sandwiches
4 years ago one cold January afternoon, our cars pulled into the driveway at almost the same moment- coming from work and from gathering kids from school. It turned out to be like no other day. It was a watershed moment for our family. As Asher walked up to the front door, he saw stuff … Continue reading Thai Mango Sticky Rice- Remembering and Redeeming
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