We're hosting Thanksgiving this year, so I am ALL kinds of crazy preparing. Soup is a winner in our house and my son and husband request it constantly. I've created four fall soups in anticipation of a busy Thanksgiving week and wanted to share[...]
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Cooking
There is not a doubt in my mind that my favorite ingredient to cook with is ... edible flowers. There are way way more out there than you think, and many common flowers are edible that you'd not even realize, like rose or dandelion. Marigold[...]
We do gummy vitamins around here and we do foraging for elderberries. We’re that family. We also live five minutes from Target and still I choose to make my own, even though elderberry is becoming more common as an ingredient we can find i[...]
The garden keeps things interesting. The ongoing challenge of how to use this and what to do with that never ceases to inspire me. It’s often the starting point of an occasion or a meal. A strike of the match creatively for me. With the[...]
It’s cucumber season! I grow these year in and year out because they are SO abundant once they start producing. This year, I had the pleasure of planting some perfect Burpee Plants cucumbers. Thankfully so, because my own cucumber start[...]
So are the green tomatoes a variety of tomato or unripe tomatoes?? That is the question. The answer is both, ha! But for me, it’s unripe tomatoes, typically at the end of the season when there’s less sunlight and the fruit just stops rip[...]
Homemade pasta is one thing. Homemade ravioli is another thing entirely - a better thing. The pockets of cheesiness are too good to be true! I got to try out, and now LOVE, these Garrett Wade ravioli trays, which make the whole process[...]
I love an espresso drink. Yes, a fancy latte does in fact make life better. And one with your own homegrown lavender simple syrup?! I mean, the world is not ready for that magic! It’s that good. I am however truly not ready to buy an es[...]