How’s your day going? Need a little pick-me-up? Here, I have something special just for you. Roasted butternut squash soup. Because you deserve it! Rainy fall days are perfect soup days. Don’t you agree? (full recipe below!) I started with …
Fall is my favorite food season. Give me pumpkins, sweet potatoes, winter squash any day. (Of course, during the summer months, summer happens to be my favorite food season. Just go with it.) Check out my bounty from the Farmer’s …
Homemaker, that is. I adore making beds, washing dishes, mopping floors, and cleaning toilets. Who wouldn’t?
It’s no secret that I’m a huge advocate of eating local foods. So you can imagine my excitement when I picked up my next round of local, grass-fed beef from Crow Farm this week! Immediately (okay, the next day…the beef …
Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard it before. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” I’ve known it forever. But it wasn’t until earlier this week that I really started to understand it. My work environment is fun and …
True story: this is a picture of my kitchen sink after carrot harvesting. (and see the grapes?? aren’t they lovely??) We grew carrots for the first time this year! I have to say I’m a big fan. I love carrots …
Confession: I’ve had sushi twice now this week. Once out with friends, and once at home. That’s perfectly normal, right?? At the little house on Pine, it’s always sushi time. {sushi time} Have you ever tried hand rolling sushi at …
Live on the east coast? How’d you do with Irene? Fortunately, she didn’t hit us as strong as I thought she might, so we never lost power. In fact, it felt more like a scary rain storm than anything. But …
Earlier in the week, we unexpectedly received a huge basket of steamed crabs! Not being much of a crab-eater myself (I know, I know, shame on me, I live in Maryland…), I first watched Shane pick them apart and eat …
Thinking that the damaging winds and rain from Hurricane Irene might wreak havoc on our garden, we spent the better part of Friday afternoon picking some of the yield! The August garden is one of my favorites–from the last leg …