Is this thing on?

Hello blog, I missed you.  Lots is happening around here and posting just was not happening.  Then I started getting that weird craft blog guilt thing where you can’t post new stuff until you’ve posted old stuff, but you can’t find your camera cable to get photos from your grownup camera, and you feel stupid [...]

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In the Can

Well, the jar, to be strictly accurate.  Today I put up some tomatoes.  We had just barely enough ripe in the garden to make it worthwhile – but I consider that remarkable given that it is June 3 and that the tot eats them off the vine at an incredible rate of speed. This is [...]

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Lavender Days

Our spring days are scented by the lavender and rosemary, the fennel, the basil and the green green tomatoes growing in our gardens. My Little Owl likes to sit in her secret place in the garden, surrounded by the lavender blooms and the rosemary. We have an evening ritual of enjoying a cup of tea together.  [...]

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Bakin’ with Betty

While visiting my folks’, the tot declared her intention to make her Grandma a birthday cake.  A strawberry, very delicious birthday cake.  (I realized that my little locavore baby hadn’t asked for strawberries for months, but that now that spring is nigh, she is obsessed with them.  How does she know?)  At first I didn’t [...]

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In the Kitchen

In the last year or so, I’ve been making a conscious effort to buy fewer and fewer processed foods. We keep a couple of Amy’s pizzas in the fridge for emergencies, but besides that, I really try to only buy ingredients. It’s become habit by now.  Mmm, frittatas At this point, the processed foods I [...]

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